Understanding and monitoring insect diversity: the environmental DNA revolution

Welcome to a symposium about Insights from the Insect Biome Atlas project.
When: Tuesday, 29th October, 8.30 – 14.00
Where: The Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Small Auditorium, (lower level floor).

Insect diversity science is undergoing transformative changes thanks to the introduction of cheap
and effective DNA-based methods (so-called DNA metabarcoding) for species identification.
This symposium highlights the new insights into the structure of insect communities generated
by these methods and the new opportunities for biodiversity monitoring that they open up!
Our focus will be on the results generated by the Insect Biome Atlas project — funded by the
Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation—in which the insect faunas of Sweden and Madagascar and
their associated microbiomes were analyzed in some of the most ambitious inventory projects
using these methods to date.

Speakers: Andreia Miraldo, Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, Fredrik Ronquist, Ayco Tack/Laura van Dijk, Robert Goodsell, Tobias Andermann, Samantha López Clinton, Piotr Łukasik, Tomas Roslin.

Register here. The full invitation and program is here.