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Since the inaugural meeting in May 2004, over 130 organizations from 43 countries across 6 continents have joined the Consortium for the Barcode of Life. Click here to view CBOL members on the world map.

Browse Members By Region
Africa East Asia-Pacific Eurasia North America Oceania South and Central America
Region Country Location   Organization
Africa
  Democratic Republic of Congo Kisangani   Laboratoire d'Ecologie et Gestion des Ressources Animales (LEGERA)
  Cameroon Beau   University of Beau
  Ghana Legon   University of Ghana, Legon
  Kenya Nairobi   International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
    Nairobi   National Museums of Kenya
  Morocco Agdal   Institut Scientifique
  Nigeria Ibadan   Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria
    Ibadan   National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB)
    Ile-Ife   Natural History Museum, Obafemi Awolowo University
  South Africa Eastern Cape  

University of Fort Hare

    Grahamstown   South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity
   
Johannesburg
  University of Johannesburg
    Pretoria   ARC - Plant Protection Research Institute
    Pretoria   SAFRINET
    Pretoria   South African National Biodiversity Institute ( SANBI)
East Asia-Pacific
  China Beijing   Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Beijing   Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology
    Guizhou   Guizhou University, Department of Entomology
    Shandong   Plant Protection College, Shandong Agricultural University
    Tolo Harbour   Department of Biology & Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Lab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Chinese Taipei Taiwan   Research Center for Biodiversity, Academia Sinica
  Japan Shizuoka   National Institute of Genetics, ROIS
    Tokyo   The Union of the Japanese Society for Systematic Biology
  Korea Seoul   Korea Research and Development Institute
 

 

 

Seoul

 

Plant DNA Bank in Korea and Korea University Herbarium (KUS)

  Malaysia Sardang   Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia
  Papua New Guinea Madang   Papua New Guinea Binatang Research Center (PNG)
  Philippines Maligaya   Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice)
  Singapore Singapore   Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore
  Taiwan Kaohsiung   Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Eurasia
  Bangladesh Rajshahi   University of Rajshahi, Department of Botany
  Belgium Brussels   Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
    Tervuren   Royal Museum for Central Africa
  Denmark Copenhagen   Global Biodiversity Information Facility
    Copenhagen   Natural History Museum of Denmark
  France Paris   Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
    Paris   Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
  Germany Berlin   Botanic Garden Berlin (Botanischer Garten und Botanisches)
    Bonn   Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum
    Braunschweig   Technical University Braunschweig Zoological Institute
    Frankfurt   Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum
    Hannover   ITZ, Ecology and Evolution
    Jena   Institute of Systematic Botany with Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) and Botanical Garden
    Munich   Knebelsberger and Miller Bioservices
    Munich   Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
  Greece Crete   Natural History Museum of Crete
    Heraklion   Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics (IMBG)
  India Dona Paula   National Institute of Oceanography, Gene Lab
    Mumbai  

St Peter's College & MEWS

    Pondicherry   Vector Control Research Centre
    Pune   National Chemical Laboratory
    Virudhunagar   Department of Biotechnology, Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology
  Iran Tehran   Plant Pest and Disease Research Institute
  Italy Bari   Institute of Biomedical Technologies
    Genova   Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte
    Milan   Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience
    Rome   Department of Animal and Human Biology, "La Sapienza" Rome University - Faculty of Science
    Rome   Department of Biology, University of Roma Tor Vergata
    Trieste   International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
    Udine   Dipartimento Di Scienze Agrarie ed Ambientali, Universita Di Udine
  Netherlands Amsterdam   Consortium of Netherlands Taxonomic Facilities
    Amsterdam   Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam
    Leiden National Museum of Natural History Naturalis
    Utrecht   CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre
  Norway Bergen   University of Bergen, Bergen Museum
    Oslo   Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
    Trondheim   Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Museum of Natural history and Archaeology
  Poland Warsaw   Museum and Institute of Zoology- Polish Academy of Sciences
  Portugal Coimbra   Institute of Marine Research (IMAR)
  Russia Moscow   Zoological Museum of Moscow University
  Spain Canarias   Jardin Botanico Canario Viera Y Clavijo
  Sri Lanka Peradeniya   University of Peradeniya
  Sweden Goteborg   Goteborg University, Department of Zoology
    Stockholm   Swedish Museum of Natural History
  Switzerland Waedenswil   Agroscope FAW
  UK Aberdeen   Fisheries Research Service
    Bangor   University of Wales, Bangor
    Edinburgh   Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
    Hull   University of Hull
    London   The Natural History Museum, London
    Reading   The University of Reading
    Surrey   BioNET-International
    Surrey   Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
    Swansea   School of Biological Sciences, Univ of Wales Swansea
    York   The Central Science Laboratory
North America
  Canada Guelph   University of Guelph
    New Brunswick   Connell Memorial Herbarium, University of New Brunswick
    Nova Scotia   Acadia University
    Ottawa   Canadian Museum of Nature
    Ottawa   Tropical Conservancy
  Mexico Mexico City   Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  USA California   California Academy of Sciences
    California   Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
    California   San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD
    California   Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    California   Zoological Society of San Diego
    Connecticut   University of Connecticut, Marine and Technology Center
    Florida   Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commision
    Florida   Florida Museum of Natural History
    Hawaii   Bishop Museum
    Illinois   The Field Museum
    Kansas   University of Kansas, Biodiversity Institute
    Massachusetts   Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
    Massachusetts   New England Biolabs, Inc.
    Massachusetts   Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation
    Michigan   NSF International (formerly National Sanitation Foundation)
    Missouri   Missouri Botanical Garden
    Minnesota   International Species Information System
    New Hampshire   University of New Hampshire
    New Jersey   Coriell Institute for Medical Research
    New York   American Museum of Natural History
    New York   Olive Natural Heritage Society, Inc
    New York   The New York Botanical Garden
    New York   The City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College
    Pennsylvania   Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
    Virginia   National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
    Washington DC   Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
    Washington DC   Smithsonian Institution
    Wisconsin   OPGEN Inc.
Oceania
  Australia Adelaide   Plant Biodiversity Centre, Adelaide Botanic Gardens
    Hobart TAS   Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
    Lismore   Australian Plant DNA Bank
    Melbourne   National Herbarium of Victoria at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
    Sydney   Australian Museum
    Sydney   Botanic Gardens Trust, National Herbarium of NSW
    Sydney   MacQuarie University
  French Polynesia Moorea   UCB Gump South Pacific Research Station
  New Zealand Canterbury   National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies
    Lincoln   Landcare Research
    Palmerston North   Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University
South and Central America
  Argentina Buenos Aires   Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
  Brazil Bahia   Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
    Manaus   Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
    Pampulha   Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais
    Rio de Janeiro   Instituto de Pesquisa Jardim Botânico de Rio de Janeiro
  Colombia Bogota   Molecular Biology Center, Gimnasio Campestre
    Bogota   Universidad de los Andes
    Ibagué   Universidad del Tolima
  Costa Rica Santa Rosa   Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
    Santo Domingo de Heredia   Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio)
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