Organization

Organizing committee

Conference Secretariat:

  • ECBOL3 Conference Secretariat, C/O Entomology Section, Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Leuvensesteenweg 13, B-3080 Tervuren, Belgium, Email: ecbol3@africamuseum.be

Conference co-ordinators:

Conference Task Force Team: the conference organization is in the hands of the Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU), the shared DNA barcoding research team of the RBINS and the RMCA, funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO).

  • JEMU logoMyriam Vandenbosch (conference secretary)
  • Kurt Jordaens (Postdoctoral researcher, JEMU)
  • Zoltán T. Nagy (Postdoctoral researcher, JEMU)
  • Floris Breman (Research assistant, JEMU)
  • Gontran Sonet (Research assistant, JEMU)

Support

The conference is financially supported by BELSPO, through JEMU, and the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO), through the “Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding”, a collaborative network of 21 Belgian research groups and laboratories that are involved in DNA barcoding activities, and of which ECBOL and CBOL are also members.

Hosting institutes

The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) will be the location for the “icebreaker”. For more information on the museum,visit http://www.naturalsciences.be/
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) will be the location for the conference diner. For more information on the museum visit http://www.africamuseum.be/
The Joint Experimental Molecular Unit is the shared DNA barcoding research team of RBINS and RMCA, funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO). For more information on their activities see http://jemu.myspecies.info/
 

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith