The 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity Biobanking of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN), on ‘Meeting the Challenge: How to Preserve a Cross-Section of the Tree of Life’, is organized by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. It will be held in parallel with the 31st Annual Meeting for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in Berlin, Germany.
Sessions and workshops are planned on,
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Concerted collecting and sampling strategies to preserve the Tree of Life
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Sampling the lost world in Natural History collections
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Nagoya Protocol: consequences and solutions
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Knowledge exchange: natural history meets applied biobanking
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Implementing GGBN standards and best practice
More information is on the conference website.