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SUMMARY:Metabarcoding: emerging technology allows rapid\, large-scale moni
 toring of biodiversity for conservation and management. - Catharine Bruce\
 , University of East Anglia
DTSTART:20130503T120000Z
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CONTACT:Marius Somveille
DESCRIPTION:Measuring biodiversity is difficult\, expensive\, and time-con
 suming because of the taxonomic impediment. Metabarcoding combines high-th
 roughput sequencing with DNA taxonomy to overcome the taxonomic impediment
 \, which opens the door to large-scale and repeated monitoring of biodiver
 sity. \nMy talk will (1) introduce the concept of metabarcoding\, (2) pres
 ent results from validation studies\, in which we show that the method pro
 duces accurate and reliable biodiversity datasets\, and (3) introduce curr
 ent work which is being conducted alongside managers of biodiversity in UK
  farmland and forest ecosystems. \nI will also describe some of the other 
 strands of metabarcoding research\, including the use of environmental DNA
  to survey plants (eDNA from soil)\, fish (eDNA from water)\, and mammals 
 (iDNA from parasites and carrion-feeders).
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology\, Downing Street\
 , Cambridge CB2 3EJ
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