ForBio Annual Meeting 2023
ForBio – Research School in Biosystematics held its 12th Annual Meeting at the University Museum of Bergen on September 19-21st.
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Sixty participants from Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and Peru presented their research results in various fields of biosystematics. The main day of the meeting took place in the Tårnsalen – a beautiful venue at the top of the museum building and was opened by the talk by Endre Willassen on the history of marine research at UiB.
Vincent McDaniel gives his speed talk about the parasites in jellyfishes, the result from the ParaZoo project
Four keynote speakers gave lectures on general biodiversity research topics of high interest to a wide audience. Michael Bok from Lund University talked about the evolution of visual systems in marine annelids. Lovisa Gustafsson from the Stavanger Botanic Garden talked about the evolution of reproductive isolation in Arctic plants. Tomas Roslin from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences discussed the ways to assess enormous diversity of insects using DNA barcoding, and Agnes Weiner from NORCE gave a lecture on using ancient DNA in the past marine biodiversity assessments.
Martha Everett gives her talk on the diversity of scale worms in the Arctic, the results of her PhD project
ForBio is a cooperation between the main Natural History Museums in Norway: Natural History Museum, UiO; University Museum of Berge, UiB; NTNU University Museum; and the Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT and supported by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. ForBio aims to advance biosystematics education for students and postdocs working in the fields of botany and zoology. The annual meetings is a great arena for the students to meet their peers and mor senior scientists and to present their research project results, exchange ideas and expand their networks.
