Oct 11, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – Natural history collections represent an incredibly rich resource of samples for DNA barcode library building, yet many challenges preclude efficient sampling of these collections including permit requirements, sample selection and DNA quality. The...
Oct 10, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent FBIP-funded workshop will go down as the first dedicated workshop on marine parasite diversity and its use in applied fisheries research in Africa. The workshop focused on the current state of knowledge of marine parasite biodiversity in...
Oct 3, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – In July 2019 the FBIP funded several postgraduate students with travel grants to attend the 39th Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA) Congress. Here is what they had to say about the event… “The presentations were very...
Sep 17, 2019 | BioGaps, News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Cape Town – A recent study has shown that mammal data alone is not a good indicator for making decisions about where fracking could be carried out without impacting on biodiversity, yet the data should form a key part of the baseline data from the larger Karoo BioGaps...
Sep 16, 2019 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized
Pretoria – The two-day workshop aimed to familiarise participants with the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) – the only informatics platform dedicated to DNA barcoding. The workshop was structured into two main sessions: lectures in the mornings and...
