For further information regarding the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference, contact Dr. David Schindel (Consortium for the Barcode of Life).

For questions regarding submission of abstracts, contact Matt Sileo (Consortium for the Barcode of Life).

Submit your abstract: Deadline 30 June 2011

1. Submitter's Details:

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Last Name*
First Name*		Middle Initial
Institution*
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E-mail Address*

2. Abstract Details

The topics listed below under Parallel Technical Sessions will help in the review process, so please check all topics into which your abstract might fit. Final decisions on Parallel Technical Sessions will be made following review of abstracts recieved.

Abstracts not accepted for oral presentation will automatically be considered for presentation as posters.

I would like my abstract considered for (check all that apply):

General Plenary Sessions(20-30 minute presentations)

Taxon-oriented Parallel Plenary Sessions (15-20 minutes)

A1. Barcoding Plants (iBOL Working Group 1.2)

A2. Barcoding Vertebrates

A3. Barcoding Invertebrates

A4. Barcoding Fungi and Microbes (iBOL WG 1.3)

Taxon-oriented Parallel Technical Session Topics (15 minutes)

B1. Plant Working Group (iBOL WG 1.2)

B2. Monocots/GrassBOL

B3. TreeBOL and combating illegal logging

B4. Micro- and Macro-algae

B5. Fungal Working Group (iBOL WG 1.3)

B6. Protist Working Group

B7. FISH-BOL

B8. All Birds Barcoding Initiative

B9. OTHER Taxon-oriented Technical Session:

Thematic Parallel Technical Session Topics (15 minutes)

C1. Barcoding Biotas (iBOL WG 2.1)

C2. Biosecurity and Quarantine

C3. Pollinators of native and agricultural significance

C4. HealthBOL: Disease vectors, pathogens and parasites (iBOL WG 1.4)

C5. Barcoding invertebrates for environmental assessment and monitoring (iBOL WG 1.7)

C6. Marine Barcoding

C7. Polar barcoding (iBOL WG 1.10)

C8. Ecological applications of barcode data

C9. Data Analysis Working Group and the Data Portal

C10. BARCODE Data Standard and Databases

C11. DNA Barcoding of Museum and Herbarium Material (iBOL WG 2.2)

C12. Barcoding Environmental Samples (iBOL WG 4.1)

C13. Low-cost innovative approaches to barcoding

C14. Building a national or regional barcode network: Experiences in Mexico

C15. Barcoding, Public Outreach and Citizen Science

C16. Barcoding and Formal Classroom Education

C17. Social Aspects of DNA Barcoding (iBOL Theme 6)

C18. OTHER Thematic Technical Session:

Poster Session

Poster and 'lightning' oral presentation (5 minutes)

Please enter each author and his/her institution (in abbreviated form) as shown below. Please enter one author on each line in the order in which they should be listed on the abstract.

Please CAPITALIZE the family name of the presenting author. The presenter must register for the conference no later than 1 October 2011 for the abstract to be included in the Conference Proceedings.

After each author name please enter the number of his or her institution (e.g., (1) or (2)).

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Please enter the title of your abstract here, 250 characters maximum, in ALL CAPITALS.
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Please enter the text of your abstract here (300 words maximum). Please insert a blank line between paragraphs. Do not indent the first line of a new paragraph.
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	I hereby agree to provide the conference organizers with digital copies of my slide presentation and/or poster presentation. I acknowledge that by submitting my abstract I am granting permission for my conference presentation to be video-recorded and posted on connect.barcodeoflife.net with appropriate accreditation, along with a digital copy of my slide presentation and/or poster presentation. If my presentation contains material of a sensitive nature such as unpublished data, then I will provide an edited version of my slide presentation that can be posted on Connect and I will inform the organizers prior to the conference that I do not want a videorecording of my presentation made public.