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www.dnabarcodes2011.org THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE CONFERENCE Poster Presentations Barcoding Invertebrates for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Aquatic Habitats (Aquatic Biosurveillence) A DNA Barcode Library of Insect Chironomidae and Discovery of New Species in Korea, Sungmin Kim Using DNA Barcodes for Unraveling Species Identifications and Phylogenetic Relationships, Sophie Gombeer DNA Barcodes Help in Water Quality Indication, Anita Tiknaik Exploring Three Enigmatic Pentaneurini Genera (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from Brazil with DNA Barcoding, Fabio Silva Beyond Bioindicators: Next-Generation Approaches to Environmental Biomonitoring, Jennifer Spall Barcoding Biotas (Biotas) DNA barcoding in Balkan biodiversity research, Elena Buzan All Birds Barcoding Initiative (Birds) DNA Barcoding Reveals Recent Speciation, Extreme Genus-Level Polyphyly and Cryptic Species in Neotropical Birds, Leonardo Campagna Identification of Korean Bird Species by DNA Barcoding, Chang-Bae Kim DNA Barcoding of Philippine Birds, Adrian Luczon DNA Barcoding in European and African Accipiter (Accipitridae: Falconiformes), Gontran Sonet The Evolutionary History and Taxonomy of Cockatoos Using a Multi-Locus Approach, Nicole White

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THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL BARCODE OF LIFE CONFERENCE

Poster Presentations

Barcoding Invertebrates for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Aquatic Habitats (Aquatic Biosurveillence)

• A DNA Barcode Library of Insect Chironomidae and Discovery of New Species in Korea, Sungmin Kim

• Using DNA Barcodes for Unraveling Species Identifications and Phylogenetic Relationships, Sophie Gombeer

• DNA Barcodes Help in Water Quality Indication, Anita Tiknaik

• Exploring Three Enigmatic Pentaneurini Genera (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from Brazil with DNA Barcoding, Fabio Silva

• Beyond Bioindicators: Next-Generation Approaches to Environmental Biomonitoring, Jennifer Spall

Barcoding Biotas (Biotas) • DNA barcoding in Balkan biodiversity research,

Elena Buzan

All Birds Barcoding Initiative (Birds)

• DNA Barcoding Reveals Recent Speciation, Extreme Genus-Level Polyphyly and Cryptic Species in Neotropical Birds, Leonardo Campagna

• Identification of Korean Bird Species by DNA Barcoding, Chang-Bae Kim

• DNA Barcoding of Philippine Birds, Adrian Luczon

• DNA Barcoding in European and African Accipiter (Accipitridae: Falconiformes), Gontran Sonet

• The Evolutionary History and Taxonomy of Cockatoos Using a Multi-Locus Approach, Nicole White

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Data Analysis Methods (DAWG) • A New Method to Extract Classification Information from Multiple Sequences,

Yasin Bakis

• SPIDER: An R package for DNA Barcoding, Samuel Brown

• Barcoding a Phylum—Character-Based Barcodes Allow Identification of Different Taxonomic Units in the Placozoa, Michael Eitel

• On the Use of Self Organizing-Maps for the Representation of Barcoding Data; An Application to Praomys Data, Madalina Olteanu

• Barcode Data Visualization—High Dimensional Datasets/Analytical Validation,

Robert Stones

Ecological Applications of DNA Barcodes (Ecological Applications)

• Application of DNA Barcoding Technique to Solving Environmental Problems: The Case

of Desertification, Gully Erosion, and Oil Spill Degradation Control in Nigeria, Christie Onyia

Education and Engagement (Education)

• Molecular Natural History: DNA Barcoding Phillipine Birds and Ohio, USA Amphibians with High school and Undergraduate Students Herman Mays

• BOLD Outreach and Community Engagement Mallory Van Wyngaarden

• Integrating Evolution Education and Biodiversity Research Through DNA Barcoding in the NYC High School Classroom Stephen Harris

Endangered Species

• The Use of DNA Barcode and 16s Ribosomal RNA Gene to Identify Fake Abalone Species for Law Enforcement in Hong Kong, Wai-yan Ha

• Subspecies Identification of Endangered Panthera Tigris, Wulansari

Barcoding Environmental DNA (Environmental Barcoding)

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• Environmental barcoding of Sundarbans plankton- Co Interference of bacterial COI sequences Punyasloke Bhadury

• New environmental metabarcodes for analyzing dirt DNA Laura Epp

Barcoding Fish (Fish) • Human And Material Factor Challenges Of Dna Barcoding Of Marine Fish Species In The

Gulf Of Guinea Coast Off Nigeria Mohammad-Monzoor Akinwale

• mtDNA Haplotype Variation in Peninsular Malaysian Pangasiid Catfish: Application of

DNA Barcoding in Fisheries Management, Haslawati Baharuddin

• DNA Barcoding of Deep-Sea Fishes from Indian Waters, KK Bineesh

• Could DNA Barcoding be Applied in the Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Neotropical Freshwater Fish? Daniel Carvalho

• A DNA Barcode Reference Library for Marine Fish of Portugal: Design and Annotation, Filipe Costa

• A New Myliobatid Species from Argentine Waters? Morphological and DNA Barcoding Approaches Juan Diaz de Astarloa

• DNA Barcoding: Refining Parataxonomy for Fishery Surveys Odeny Dickens

• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Identify Fishes Angelo Ferrari

• Molecular Identification of Species from Genus Salminus (Characidae) through DNA Barcoding, Patricia Freitas

• Barcoding of Five Sturgeon Species in Iran Hassan Ghadirnejad

• Molecular Characterization of Catfishes of Northeast India: A DNA Barcode and Mini-barcode Approach, Sankar Ghosh

• Barcoding Freshwater Fishes: Comparison Between Two Brazilian Drainages

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Jefferson Henriques

• DNA Barcoding Approach to the Study of Community Structure of Rheophilic Fishes of Araguaia and Xingu Rivers Tomas Hrbek

• DNA Barcoding of Mastacembelids, Jamsari Jamaluddin

• Divergence at CYT-B and CO-1 mtDNA Gene Sequences within Species and on Different Taxonomic Levels: Implications in Genetics of Speciation and DNA Barcoding, Yuri Kartavtsev

• Identifying German Freshwater and Marine Fishes through DNA Barcoding Thomas Knebelsberger

• Estimating COI Diversity of Wild and Culture Reared Lates Calcarifer (Bloch) of Indian Waters Prasanna Kumar

• Molecular Identification and Phylogeny of Freshwater Perches of Indian Water,

Smita Lenka

• Incorporating DNA Barcodes into a Multi-Year Inventory of the Fishes of the Hyperdiverse Lower Congo River, with a Multi-Gene Performance Assessment of the Genus Labeo as a Case Study Jacob Lowenstein

• DNA Barcoding Reveals Taxonomic Conflicts Between Sardinella aurita and S. brasiliensis, Ezequiel Mabragaña

• Barcoding of the Family Scombridae Off Malaysian Waters Noor Adelyna Mohammed Akib

• DNA Barcoding of Larval Reef Fishes of the South-Western Indian Ocean, Monica Mwale

• DNA Barcoding Discriminates Freshwater Fishes from Southeastern Nigeria and Provides River System-Level Phylogeographic Resolution within Some Species Christopher Nwani

• DNA Barcode Discriminates Freshwater Fishes from the Upper Paraná River Basin, Brazil

and Flags Several New Species, Luiz Pereira

• Dna Barcoding of Philippine Fishes: Status and Preliminary Analysis Jonas Quilang

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• Molecular Identification Using DNA Barcoding of the Family Anostomidae (Characiformes: Chordata) Jorge Luis Ramirez Malaver

• Barcoding Fishes of Argentina: The Progress of the Freshwater Campaign, Juan Jose Rosso

• Barcoding of the Genera Hisonotus and Microlepdogaster (Siluriformes: Loricariidae: Otothyrinae) from South and Southeast of Brazil, Fíbio Roxo

• FISHCODES: DNA Barcoding of Commercially Important and Regulated Philippine Aquatic Species for Management and Conservation, Mudjekeewis Santos

• Barcoding and Phylogeny of the Flounder Family Pleuronectidae (Pleuronectiformes) from

Russia Far East, Svetlana Sharina

• DNA Barcodes and the Characterization of Elasmobranch Landings in Gambia, West Africa, Billy Sinclair

• Challenge to Resolve Two Morphological Species of Schizothorax with Cytocrhome Oxidase I, Cytocrhome B and 16S Ribosomal RNA Sequences, Majender Singh

• Genetic Evidence for Hybridization between Cheilinus undulates (Labridae) with Lutjanus johnii (Lutjanidae) Revealed from DNA Barcoding, Adriani Sunuddin

• CO-1 Gene-based Barcoding of Perch-like (Perciformes) Species of Russia Far East with Phylogenetic and Taxonomic Outcomes, Sergey Turanov

• DNA Barcoding and Molecular Biodiversity Inventory of the Ichthyofauna of the Czech Republic, Sona Urbankova

Fungi

• DNA barcoding of fungi in Hypocreales with cylindrical conidia, Lorenzo Lombard

• Exploring DNA barcoding regions in Geastrum (Agaricomycetes), María Martín

• International tree slime project, Keith Seifert

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• DNA Barcoding Pandora's Box

Pedro Crous

• DNA Barcoding of Fungi in Hypocreales with Cylindrical Conidia Lorenzo Lombard

• Exploring DNA Barcoding Regions in Geastrum (Agaricomycetes) María Martín

• The Need of Defining Species in the Threatening Genus Saprolegnia (Oomycetes): First Barcoding Approach with Molecular Analysis of its RDNA María Martín

• International Tree Slime Project Keith Seifert

• Multilocus Barcoding of the Mycosphaerella Complex Occurring on Myrtaceae

William Quaedvlieg

• Study of Toxigenic and Non -Toxigenic Fungal Strains in Foods Tumurbat Sandag

• ITS Genetic Diversity of Nematode-Trapping Fungi Two Species and their Implication for

Fungi Barcode Yu Ze-fen

Parasites and Vectors (Health)

• Evidence through taxonomy and barcoding for the revalidation of the subgenus Phalangomyia (Diptera: Culicidae: Culex), Claudia Núñez

Barcoding Insects (Insects)

• Genetic and Spatial Structure of Ants Along Elevational Gradients Flavia Esteves

• Cryptic Diversity in the Widespread European Earwig, Forficula auricularia (Insecta,

Dermaptera) Kurt Jordaens

• DNA Barcoding to Distinguish Species of Indian Odonata

Yogesh Shouche

• DNA Barcoding of Fire Ants and Thief Ants (Genus Solenopsis) of the Ecuadorian Andes as a Tool for Biodiversity Research Gontran Sonet

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• DNA Barcodes of the Japanese Hoverflies of the Genus Merodon (Diptera, Syrphidae):

Comparison of the Genetic Variation between the Invasive Species M. equestris and the Native Congener M. kawamurae Mitsuaki Sutou

• Neotropical Ant Community Structure and Biodiversity Dynamics Along an Elevation

Gradient Connor Warne

• Integrative Taxonomy: DNA Barcoding and Morphological Studies Reveal Three Cryptic Species of Anania (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Pyraustinae) in North America, All Distinct from their European Counterpart Zhaofu Yang

Barcoding Terrestrial Non-Insect Invertebrates (Invertebrates)

• Testing the Utility of the Barcoding Gene for Elucidating Phylogentic of Phylogenetic Terrestrial Snails, Siti Balkhis Abu Bakar

• Ecological Survey of Polychaete Communities from the Estuarine and Coastal Environments of India- A Barcoding Approach, Punyasloke Bhadury

• Morphological and Molecular Markers Suggest Giant Freshwater Prawn in India is

Macrobrachium dacqueti, Raj Kumar

• Barcoding Collembola: Scaling up!,

David Porco

• DNA barcoding of Chilopoda: Preliminary Report on Cryptic Diversity Cases in the Genus Eupolybothrus verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae), David Porco

• Understanding the Taxonomy and Evolution of Bennelongia (Ostracoda, Crustacea) Using

Genetic Barcoding Techniques, Rylan Shearn

Barcoding Macroalgae (Macroalgae)

• Testing Primers COX2-3 Spacer, UCP6 and UPA for Caulerpa taxifolia , Carlos Bohorquez Rueda

• DNA Barcoding for the Curation of Algal Specimens in National Herbarium, Ga Youn Cho

• DNA Barcoding to Taxonomy of Grateloupia (Rhodophyta),

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Myung Sook Kim

• Species Delimitation Using DNA Barcoding to Martensia (Delessericeae, Rhodophyta), Myung Sook Kim

• DNA Barcodes as Critical Factors for Identifying in Gracilaria salicornia (Rhodophyta) from South-east Asia, Myung Sook Kim

• Barcoding Australian Ulva (Chlorophyta) across Five States Reveals Cosmopolitanism, Lisa Kirkendale

• Molecular Characterization of Laminaria Populations on Southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Leila Longo

• DNA Barcoding of the Largest Seaweed on Earth, Erasmo Macaya

• Biodiversity of Macro-algae of Chilika Lagoon, Ramsar Site- Conventional Taxonomy and DNA Barcoding, Jnanendra Rath

• DNA Barcoding of the Brown Algal Genera Acrocarpia, Caulocystis and Cystophora from Australia, Nuttanun Soisup

• DNA Barcoding Using COX1 and rBcL Markers to Investigate the Phylogeography of Seven Species of Marine Benthic Macroalgae, Tracey Spokes

• DNA Barcoding of the Economically and Ecologically Important Marine Red Macroalgal Genus Hypnea (Gigartinales) with Emphasis on Australian Specimens, Chelsea Tothill

Marine Barcoding (Marine)

• DNA Barcoding for the Identification of Nerita Sp. Found in Malaysia Based on mtDNA Cytochrome Oxidase I Gene Su Yin Chee

• Inventorying Macrobenthos Diversity of the Portoguese Coast: Use of DNA Barcodes as a Tool for Integrative Taxonomic Approach Filipe Costa

• Accessing DNA Barcode to Identify Bacterial Symbionts of Marine Invertebrate as Sustainable Source of Bioactive Compounds Chelzie Darusallam

• DNA Barcoding as Tool for Identifying Problematic Seacucumber Species of The Red Sea Mohammed Elsayed

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• DNA Barcoding of Pelagic Copepods in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Sergio Hernandez-Trujillo

• DNA Barcoding—A Potent Tool for Marine Bio-Prospecting; Identifying Molluscan Egg Masses through DNA Barcodes Prasanna Kumar

• The Marine Mollusks of Canada’s Ocean Basins: Trends in Species Diversity and Historical Phylogeography Kara Layton

• DNA Barcode: Multidisciplinary Characterization of the Biodiversity of Decapods Crustaceans along the Coast of São Paulo State, Brazil Fernando Mantelatto

• First Results in Mexico with COI in Free-Living Marine Nematodes Arely Martínez Arce

• Barcoding Approaches to the Taxonomy of Australasian Toxic Sponges Kirsty Mitchell

• Application of Molecular Tools in the Assessment of North Sea Zooplankton Diversity Michael Raupach

• DNA Barcoding of Crustaceans from The North Sea Michael Raupach

• DNA Barcoding to Distinguish Species of Indian Molluscs Rahul Salunkhe

• Exploration of the Deep-Sea Floor for New Species Using a Newly-Developed Submersible Hidemi Watanabe

• Molecular Identification of Meiofaunal Heterobranchs- An Extra Tool When Morphological Characters are Few, Nerida G. Wilson

• DNA Barcoding the Hydromedusae Using mtCOI and 16S RDNA Lianming Zheng

National Barcoding Networks (Networks)

• The Experience of the Network in Northwestern Mexico Griselda Gallegos-Simental

• Barcoding for Pennies—An Affordable Approach for Screening Mass Collections Natalia Ivanova

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• The Next Step: Rapid Molecular in situ Species Identification Thomas Knebelsberger

• A Belgian Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern (BOPCO) Hendrik Segers

Barcoding Plants & Trees

• Preliminary Study on the Development of DNA Barcode for Malaysian Herbs, Muhammad Sharir Abdul Rahman

• DNA Barcoding of African Sapindaceae, Temitope Adeyemi

• DNA Barcoding Useful Trees from Biodiversity Hotspots of Ghana, Gabriel Ameka

• Improving Species Identification of Dalbergia spp. with DNA Barcoding, Rasika Bhagwat

• DNA Barcoding of Xyridaceae (Poales),

Lisa Campbell

• Barcoding of Egyptian Ornamental Herbs, Shrubs and Trees, Hosam Elansary

• Molecular Distinction of the Invasive Plant Species, Myriophyllum spp., from Native Relatives, Robab Ghahramanzadeh

• Effects of Geographic Genetic Variations on Plant DNA Barcoding Accuracy, Mailyn Gonzalez

• Soil Seed Bank Species Diversity and DNA Barcoding, David Gopurenko

• DNA Barcode of the Tree Flora of the Tropical Rainforest of the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve, Veracruz, Mexico, Karen Hernandez-Esquivel

• Post 2010 Biodiversity Conservation Targets: The Role of DNA Barcoding in Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Plants (NUP) in Nigeria, Andrew Iloh

• Possibility of Identification at Species and Population Levels for the Genus Daphne (Thymelaeaceae) by DNA Barcoding, Takayuki Kawahara

• DNA Barcoding Contributes to Species Identification in Bryophytes,

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Helena Korpelainen

• DNA Barcoding Clears the Road Ahead of Impacts on Rare Flora- An Example with Eucalyptus articulata, Siegy Krauss

• Taxonomic Identification of Chloroplast Genome of Marchantia polymorpha using DNA

Barcode Sequences, Ireneusz Odrzykoski

• DNA Banking and Barcoding of Arid Plants in Nigeria, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe

• DNA Barcoding of Loganiaceae in West Africa, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe

• Authentication of Herbal Medicinal Materials from Entire Grass Using a Potential DNA Barcode ITS2, Xiaohui Pang

• Molecular Analysis of Ullung Island Populations of Fallopia sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) ronse decr. (Polygonaceae), Jin Park

• DNA Barcode Based PCR-RFLP is a Simple Tool to Authenticate Herbal Products, Sathishkumar Ramalingam

• Molecular Authentication of the Morphologically Similar Ayurvedic Plants for Pharmovigilance by DNA Barcodes, Sathishkumar Ramalingam

• DNA Barcoding on Woody Plants in Japan- Focus on Some Taxaonomic Groups, Suzuki Setsuko

• DNA Barcoding of the Mexican Sedative and Anxiolytic Plant Galphimia glauca,

Ashutosh Sharma

• Importance of Plant DNA Barcoding: From High End Molecular Biology to General Public, Bhavisha Sheth

• DNA Barcoding of Bamboos of India- A Historical Perspective,

Paramjit Singh

• Testing DNA Barcoding in Closely-Related Groups of Lysimachia l. (Myrsinaceae), Hai-Fei Yan

Polar Life (Polar)

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• Utilizing DNA Barcoding to Understand Phylogenetic Community Structure of Sub-Arctic Freshwater Invertebrates of Churchill, MB, Elizabeth Boyle

• Barcoding the Ross Sea Continental Shelf Sponge Assemblages, Sergio Vargas

• Building a DNA Barcode Library for Soil Mites in Arctic Canada, Monica Young

Barcoding Protists (Protists)

• Genetic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates that associate with reef building corals from Tanzania, Leonard Chauka

• Hidden diversity of terrestrial Ulvophytes (Chlorophyta) discovered by ITS-2 DNA barcode, Tatyana Darienko

• DNA barcoding of extremophilic algae of eastern part of India, Sikha Mandal

• DNA barcoding of some subaerial algae of archeologically important monuments of western Bengal, eastern India, Jnanendra Rath

Role of Barcoding in Quarantine Applications and Regulations (Quarantine and Barcoding)

• Molecular Taxonomy of Agromyzid Leaf Miners and their Parasitoids in Bangladesh, Badrul Bhuiya

• Barcoding Australian Fruit Flies for Biosecurity, Mark Blacket

• Barcode-Facilitated Inventories Elucidate the Influence of a Native Pest Outbreak on the Moth Diversity of a Ponderosa Pine Forest System, Jeremy deWaard

• Authentication of Invasive Plant Species Through DNA Barcodes, Ting Gao

Barcoding Vertebrates other than Fish and Birds (Vertebrates)

• DNA Barcode Library of Indonesian Reptiles and Amphibians for Conservation Studies,

Evy Arida

• Identification of Bat Species (Chiroptera) by DNA Barcoding,

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Trupti Khedkar

• The DNA Barcoding of Caecilians (Class: Amphibia; Order: Gymnophiona) of Southern Western Ghats of Peninsular India, Ramachandran Kotharambath

• Assessment of Three Mitochondrial Genes for Barcoding The Praomyini Tribe, Catherine Laredo

• How Useful are mtDNA Methods for Identifying Rats?, Judith Robins

• DNA Barcode: A Useful Tool for Road Ecology Species Identification, Karen Rodriguez

• DNA Barcoding of Reptiles: Practical Aspects, Gontran Sonet

• An Automated Approach to Characterizing Genetic Diversity in Association with Environment: A Case Study of Mammals Across Varying Altitudes, Shanna Wilson