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Mark Your Calendars...

Pre-Conference Events,
7-9 November:

Plant Working Group
Short course on barcoding lab
protocols
Short course on BOLD and
barcoding informatics
Welcome reception

Main Conference,
10-12 November:

Morning plenary sessions
Afternoon parallel sessions for
Working Groups and taxon-oriented workshops
Afternoon Symposium on
Meso-American barcoding
Closing banquet

In this issue:

Message from the Executive Secretary

Call for Nominations: CBOL's Executive Committee

Recent Advances in Barcoding Science

CBOL will be holding the Third International Barcode of Life Conference at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City during the week of 9-13 November 2009. Please mark your calendars-- you will be receiving additional information very soon. DNA barcoding is among the non-commercial research initiatives that are concerned about access to biological samples, so CBOL has taken a proactive role in discussions with the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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Message from Executive Secretary

If you’re looking for journals that are interested in publishing barcoding papers, please consider PLoS ONE. CBOL has been working with the Public Library of Science over the last year to create a standard format for DNA barcoding papers and two have been published in PLoS ONE in the last few months.
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Call for nominations to Executive Committee

Helida Oyieke and Simon Tillier have served on the Executive Committee since 2005 and their terms of appointment will soon come to an end. CBOL salutes their outstanding contributions and calls for nominations from Member Organizations for new Executive Committee members..
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