NBOL

The Netherlands have seen considerable DNA barcoding activity with large infrastructure proposals to NWO as early as 2005, a fungal DNA barcoding type strains programme set-up at CBS in 2006, active participation in CBOL by NHN and CBS, setting-up ECBOL coordinated from CBS, and organizing and hosting (DNA barcoding in Europe, a highly successful meeting aimed at organizing and optimizing funding opportunities for DNA barcoding at the European level. NBOL (Netherlands Barcode of Life) provides a platform for organizing & streamlining DNA barcoding initiatives in The Netherlands. NBOL’s mission therefore involves:

• concerted contribution to proposals for national large-scale DNA barcoding facilities
• provide a platform for interested potential users and generators of DNA barcoding in The Netherlands
• secure effective embedding in international DNA barcoding initiatives, i.e. avoid inventing our own national barcoding wheels

NBOL is:

Freek T. Bakker (chair) — NHN/Wageningen University; prof. Pedro Crous, Ewald Groenewald, Rien van der Linden & Ursula Eberhardt, CBS Utrecht; Hans Helder, prof. Marcel Dicke —Wageningen University, Wouter Los — University of Amsterdam, Michael Stech — NHN/Leiden University, Erik van Nieukerken, Jan van Tol & Leo Kriegsman — Naturalis, Peter Bonants — Plant Research International.

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