1st Plenary Session – Biodiversity & Ecosystems
Paul Hebert, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canada (Video) (PDF)
From iBOL to Planetary Biodiversity
Yves Basset, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama (Video) (PDF)
Long-term monitoring of tropical arthropods and DNA barcoding
Tetsukazu Yahara, Kyushu University, Japan (Video) (PDF)
Plant diversity assessments in tropical forests of SE Asia
2nd Plenary Session – Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
Rosemary Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley USA (Video) (PDF)
Evolution of ecological communities through the lens of an island chronosequence
Melania Cristescu, McGill University, Canada (Video) (PDF)
From barcoding single individuals to metabarcoding biological communities: towards understanding and managing invasive species
Thibaud Decaëns, University of Montpellier, France (Video) (PDF)
Dissecting tropical earthworm biodiversity patterns in tropical rainforests through the use of DNA barcoding
3rd Plenary Session – Ecological Interations
Charles Godfray, University of Oxford, UK (Video) (PDF)
Barcodes, food webs and insect community ecology
Naomi Pierce, Harvard University, USA (Video) (PDF)
Myrmecophile communities of the African ant-plant Vachellia (Acacia) drepanolobium
Jana Vamosi, University of Calgary, Canada (Video) (PDF)
Insights from the Tree of Sex: why so many ways of doing it?
4th Plenary Session – Ecological & Environmental Genomics
Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh, UK (Video) (PDF)
Metabarcoding of meiofauna and other eukaryotes in terrestrial and marine ecosystems
Michael Hofreiter, University of Potsdam, Germany (Video) (PDF)
Genomic analyses from highly degraded DNA
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canada (Video)
Environmental DNA barcoding: from the Arctic to the tropics—and everywhere in between
5th Plenary Session – Bioinformatics
David Posada, University of Vigo, Spain (Video) (PDF)
Species tree inference from multilocus data sets
Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canada (Video) (PDF – 44MB)
Informatics tools for the second decade of DNA barcoding
Derek Tittensor, Dalhousie University, Canada (Video) (PDF)
New models, new data: can DNA barcoding help with the development of General Ecosystem Models?
6th Plenary Session – Taxonomy & Systematics
Rod Page, University of Glasgow, UK (Video) (PDF)
Dark taxa and hidden texts: obstacles to integrating barcodes and taxonomy
John La Salle, Atlas of Living Australia CSIRO, Australia (Video) (PDF)
Biodiversity discovery, documentation and analysis in the digital era
Karl Kjer, Rutgers University, USA (Video) (PDF)
The global Trichoptera Barcode of Life campaign: implications and applications
7th Plenary Session – Conservation
Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution NMNH, USA (Video) (PDF)
Censusing Marine Life in the 21st Century
Eduardo Eizirick, PUCRS, Brazil (Video) (PDF)
The Brazilian Barcode of Life (BrBOL) initiative and its potential to aid in biodiversity conservation
Louis Bernatchez, Laval University, Canada (Video) (PDF)
Genomics applied to conservation and management of aquatic resources: are the promises being filled?
8th Plenary Session – Global Initiatives
John Kress, Smithsonian Institution, USA (Video) (PDF)
Tracking evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across global forest dynamics plots using plant DNA barcodes
Wolfgang Wägele, ZFMK, Germany (Video) (PDF)
Lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative
Peter Hollingsworth, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK (Video) (PDF)
The International Society for the Barcode of Life
Special Plenary – State of Biodiversity (Video)
Brock Fenton (Chair), University of Western Ontario, Canada (PDF) (Closing PDF)
Barcodes, bugs and bats
David Hik, University of Alberta, Canada (PDF – 25MB)
Arctic biodiversity – from barcodes to species interactions
Monte Hummel, World Wildlife Fund, Canada
Recent trends in biodiversity conservation
Laurence Packer, York University, Canada (PDF)
Keeping the bees: Identifying and protecting wild bees
Stuart Pimm, Duke University, USA (PDF)
What we need to know about biodiversity in order to conserve it
Paul Snelgrove, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (PDF)
Changing oceans of biodiversity
Bridget Stutchbury, York University, Canada (PDF)
Threats to terrestrial vertebrates in Canada
Final Plenary (Video)
Laurence Packer (Chair), York University, Canada (PDF)
We’ve come a long way!
Tom Lovejoy, George Mason University, USA
Exploring life on Earth: A grand and critical adventure
Dan Janzen, University of Pennsylvania, USA (PDF)
Barcoding from a tropical trench, looking upward and outward
Paul Hebert, University of Guelph, Canada
Closing Remarks