This event, open to all, consisted on a full day of conferences and networking where scientists, industry and government agencies have provided examples of best practices in the implementation of molecular techniques for assessing biodiversity and ecological quality in freshwater, transitional and marine waters in different countries, allowing to nurture the discussion on what steps would be needed to improve their application and overcome technical problems, and how to address policy and regulatory issues.
The full program can be found here.
Twitter posts from the attendees during the school can be found here.
Links for downloading the presentations made during the event:
- Presentation of CIBIO-InBIO – Pedro Beja, CIBIO-InBIO, Portugal
- Presentation of EnvMetagen ERA Chair – Nuno Fonseca, CIBIO-InBIO, Portugal
- Presentation of COST Action DNAqua-net (Part1) – Florian Leese, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Presentation of COST Action DNAqua-net (Part2) – Florian Leese, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Monitoring of rivers and reservoirs in Portugal (Part1) – Verónica Pinto, Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Portugal
- Monitoring of rivers and reservoirs in Portugal (Part2) – Verónica Pinto, Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Portugal
- Monitoring of transitional and coastal waters in Portugal – Susana Nunes, Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Portugal
- Biomonitoring of hydroelectric reservoirs in Portugal – João Pádua, Labelec, Portugal
- Monitoring of cyanobacteria in Portugal (Part1) – Elisabete Valério, INS Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
- Monitoring of cyanobacteria in Portugal (Part2) – Elisabete Valério, INS Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
- Monitoring of cyanobacteria in Portugal (Part3) – Elisabete Valério, INS Ricardo Jorge, Portugal
- Meio and macrobenthic invertebrate monitoring in Portugal (Part1) – Filipe Costa, University of Minho, Portugal
- Meio and macrobenthic invertebrate monitoring in Portugal (Part2) – Filipe Costa, University of Minho, Portugal
- Biomonitoring of freshwaters in Portugal (Part1) – Ana Filipa Filipe, CIBIO-InBIO, Portugal
- Biomonitoring of freshwaters in Portugal (Part2) – Ana Filipa Filipe, CIBIO-InBIO, Portugal
- Biotic indices – Jan Pawlowski, University of Geneve, Switzerland
- Monitoring of diatoms – Agnes Bouchez, INRA, France
- Macroinvertebrate montoring – Rosetta Blackman, Eawag, Switzerland
- Biomonitoring of marine macroinvertebrates – Angel Borja, AZTI, Spain
- Metabarcoding of lake fish communities – Bernd Haenfling, University of Hull, United Kingdom
- Data archiving of DNA samples – Taylor Wilcox, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, USA
- Implementation options under the WFD – Pieter Boets, University of Ghent / East-Flanders Regional Government, Belgium
- SCANDNAnet – Kristian Meissner, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
- Molecular techniques in environmental monitoring – J. Iwan Jones, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
