To Biosiversity Genomics Europe ( BGE) είναι ένα πρόγραμμα που έχει σαν στόχο να
δημιουργήσει ένα πανευρωπαϊκό δίκτυο παραγωγής γενωμικών δεδομένων βιοποικιλότητας,
χτίζοντας τα θεμέλια για την αποτελεσματικότερη αντιμετώπιση της συνεχιζόμενης μείωσης
της βιοποικιλότητας.
Συνδυάζοντας δύο διαφορετικούς κλάδους της επιστήμης γενωμικών δεδομένων, αυτής του
DNA barcoding και της κατασκευής γονιδιωμάτων αναφοράς και χρησιμοποιώντας τα
δεδομένα από οργανισμούς χερσαίων, θαλάσσιων και οικοσυστημάτων γλυκών υδάτων, θα
αυξηθεί σημαντικά η ικανότητά μας στην αναγνώριση και ταυτοποίηση ειδών, στη μελέτη των
σχέσεων μεταξύ τους και στην παρακολούθηση των αλλαγών της βιοποικιλότητας. Η
αυξανόμενη αυτή γνώση, θα βοηθήσει στην ενημέρωση και την ανάληψη δράσης για τη
διατήρηση, την ενίσχυση και την αποκατάσταση της βιοποικιλότητας.
Δείτε εδώ την αφίσα.
The 10th European Congress of Malacological Societies (EUROMAL 2024) is here!
The motto of EUROMAL 2024 is “The slow side of life on a rapidly changing planet”. The aim of the conference, among other things, is to highlight the importance of molluscs in our efforts to understand and address anthropogenic impacts on the environment.
The congress, organized by the Hellenic Malacological Society and the Natural History Museum of Crete, will take place at the Cultural Conference Centre of Heraklion, Crete, from 15 to 20 September 2024.
Therefore, in EUROMAL 2024 all aspects of research concerning diversity, function, ecology, evolution, behavior, utility, and conservation of extant and fossil molluscs in the 21st century will be addressed. The meeting will continue the successful tradition of the past EUROMAL congresses.
More info on the congress website https://www.euromal2024.gr/.
NEWS_UOC_SOCIAL
Μαρία Βιτσάκη04/09/2024
It is with great pleasure and gratitude that the Natural History Museum of Crete-University of Crete (NHMC-UoC) received a very important donation of scorpions in April 2023 from Victor Fet, Professor in the Department of Biology at Marshall University (Huntington, West Virginia, USA).
The donation concerns more than 50 scorpion samples, which come mainly from Greece but also from other countries. The donation was immediately included in the Arthropods’ collection of the NHMC-UoC, where it was preserved and catalogued.
Those specimens together with all the rest of the NHMC-UoC's collections are available to the entire scientific community for research and study.
We thank Mr. Victor Fet for his valuable donation, which enriches our Museum's collections with rare and unique specimens from many regions of the world. We hope that his act will find other imitators, as the specimens housed in museums receive the best preservation and promotion and are open and accessible to the entire scientific and other community.
Prof. Victor Fet has studied at the University of Novosibirsk (Russia) and received his PhD from the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg (Russia). Since 1988 he lives and works in the USA. He studies the genetics, biogeography, systematics, evolution ...
Μαρία Βιτσάκη07/02/2024
Ελληνικά