A methods focused workshop about best lab practices, legendary DNA extraction adversities, innovative methodological tools and more. Via Zoom.
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Thursday, 11 November
DNA Extraction
09:15 Welcome and program overview
09:30 DNA extraction from herbarium material
Dirk Albach: “Insights from own experience with Veronica and the literature”
Salvatore Tomasello: “aDNA extraction methods for herbarium specimens – When it is worth the effort”
Franziska Patzold: “Museum specimens DNA extraction using an oligo clean-up kit (including hands-on video)”
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch break
Library Preparation
13: 00 Petra Korlevic: “Adapting a double-stranded Illumina library preparation kit for sequencing of pinned historic Diptera specimen”
14:00 George Xenikoudakis: “HOW and WHY of different DNA extraction and library building approaches”
15:00 Discussion
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Friday, 12 November
Sequencing Approaches (plants)
09:15 Greeting and program overview
09:30 Freek Bakker: “Herbarium genomics: getting plant archival DNA to work”
10:30 Alexandre Zuntini: “Target sequence capture on Museomics”
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch break
Sequencing Approaches (animals)
14:00 Marcela Sandoval Velasco: “Capture strategies for museomics”
15:00 Carl Hutter: “FrogCap: A modular sequence capture approach for Anurans that addresses the challenge of capturing markers across broad phylogenetic scales”
16:00 Discussion and conclusion
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AFTERNOTE
Check out our lovely international team of Muse-OMIC-ists below and find more relevant workshops in the Taxon-OMICS YouTube.
