Fungal Barcoding Workshop: Finding the Best Gene for DNA Barcoding
Convenors: Conrad Schoch, Keith Seifert, Lorenzo Lombard, Rob Samson & Pedro Crous
 
CBOL Fungal Working Group Workshop. The goals of this meeting are a) to discuss the data generated over the past six months comparing four potential fungal barcode markers, b) to arrive at a consensus on the proposed fungal markers, c) to write an outline of the paper and report to CBOL, d) finalize the timeline for completion and submission of the manuscript and e) discuss future work. Data will be presented and the discussions led by the individuals who are most familiar with each taxonomic group. 
 
Arrival (16 or 17th April): Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
 
Venue: De Bazel Café & Conferentiecentrum, Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam
Accommodation: Hotel The Albus, Vijzelstraat 49, Amsterdam (most rooms are taken, and latecomers probably have to book elsewhere)

Programme

Saterday April 16th

14:00 Premeeting discussion for CBOL Fungal Working Group

19:00 Meet and greet at Hotel The Albus (drinks and light snacks)

Sunday April 17th

Convenor: Conrad Schoch
9:00 Introductions and outline of the meeting’s goals
Keith Seifert, Conrad Schoch 

9:15 Dikarya (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota). Presentations 10 minutes, 5 minutes discussion.

Break 15 minutes

Final discussion on Dikarya
12:30  Lunch

14:00 Discussion of potential problems with ITS (or other genes) and methods for analysis.

• Karen Hughes (Problems with ITS and other proposed barcoding genes)
• Priscilla Chaverri (ITS vs secondary barcode genes)
• Henrik Nilsson (tools for analysis)
• Ruth del Prado (barcoding analysis in lichens)

Break 15 minutes

• Clete Kurtzman (additional yeast genes)
• Vincent Robert (genome sampling and barcoding)
• General discussion

17:00 Basal fungal lineages. Presentation and discussion of data.

• Andre Levesque
• Kerstin Voigt
• General discussion

18:00 Supper in Albus Hotel
 
Monday April 18th

Convenor: Keith Seifert
9:00 Publication plan, and writing of paper.

• John Spouge and Conrad Schoch (data summary for project)
• Sabine Huhndorf – background and introduction
• use of facilitators to flesh out backbone of paper

12:30 Lunch
14:00 Publication plan, and writing of paper.

• Wrap up of paper

15:00 Discussion of future activities (2-5 minute talks, no slides) 

• Broad funding opportunities in the barcoding community
• Peter Freeman, iBOL
• David Schindel, CBOL
  
• Karen Hughes (FESIN and barcoding)
  
• Projects and proposed projects: 
• Elena Bolchacova (LifeTech)
• Ewald Groenewald (QBOL)
• Thorsten Lumbsch (testing species delimitation)
• Martin Bidartondo (sequencing herbaria)
• Kentaro Hosaka (sequencing type specimens)
• Pedro Crous (barcoding Australian diversity)
• Keith Seifert (mycocommunity projects around sacred monographs)
• Conrad Schoch (a barcoding research coordination network)
   
  18:00 Closure of official meeting, but eventual discussions and writing of paper may continue

IMPORTANT

DNA Barcodes are to be deposited online before the meeting at www.fungalbarcoding.org

Participants are to prepare text to accompany the DNA data that they submit. A backbone of the paper will be provided in advance.

Please send an email that you registered (arrival and departure) to l.lombard@cbs.knaw.nl or m.verweij@cbs.knaw.nl