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CBOL received its third two-year grant from the Sloan Foundation and started to implement a new Program of Work in May 2008. As you’ll read in this newsletter, we’re off to a fast start. We’re working closely with people at the University of Guelph who are preparing their proposal for iBOL, a $150 million International Barcode of Life initiative that will produce 5 million barcode records from 500,000 species.
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CBOL plans to hold the Third International Barcode of Life Conference in North, Central, or South America in late 2009. Institutions that are interested in hosting the conference should contact CBOL's Secretariat Office.
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Two of CBOL’s most important ‘deliverables’ for the coming two years will be new web-based resources for the barcoding community. These are the BOLI Data Portal being constructed by CBOL’s Data Analysis Working Group, and the web portal for CBOL’s Leading Labs Network. They will be showcased at the e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics next year.
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The Leading Labs Network, Data Portal, and planning for regional and international meetings are keeping the Secretariat Staff very busy.
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CBOL’s Member Organizations approved the nominations of three new members of the Executive Committee for two-year terms starting 20 June 2008. Please welcome Ione Egler (Brazil), Kwang-Tsao Shao (Taiwan), and Jorge Soberón (USA) to CBOL’s leadership.
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CBOL will be sponsoring technical sessions and outreach events in Abuja, Nigeria, and the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. The Plant Working Group Steering Committee will also be meeting, and CBOL is organizing a week-long workshop concerned with Access and Benefit Sharing. The e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity, is being organized by the Encylopedia of Life, CBOL and the Natural History Museum (London) .
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