ChallenGen last meeting

by Maria Casso

The 17th November, in Barcelona, we had the (most probably) last meeting of the ChallenGen Project. Anna and Héctor talked about DNA libraries preparation for GBS-like methods. At the end of the meeting we put in common all the publications, conferences and other outputs the group published thanks to the ChallenGen Project. You can check out our publications here.

We will have news soon about the next project!

Another ChallenGen meeting

by Marta Campos

On the 20th June, the members of ChallenGen Project held a general meeting at the Biology Department of the University of Barcelona.

It was our pleasure to learn about ongoing work of the MarSymbiomics project, with which several collaborative papers have been prepared.

This encounter gave us the opportunity to interact with each other, and to present the latest news and updates on howour research and work is going on . During the last trimester, for example, Maria was in Venezia doing a research stay, Alex and Carles worked with informatics analysis and Clara and Marc prepared two oral communications for the XVI day of evolutionary biology, organizated by the Institute of Catalan Studies. We also learnt about the last results published or submitted within the framework of ChallenGen.

Moreover, the CEAB-CSIC researcher Iosune Uriz was our invited speaker and explained us the main results until now of her project MarSymbiomics.

It was a great week start!

In the beginning...

This is the starting point of the blog of ChallenGen Project, a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness which aims at shedding light on some hot topics involving the application of genetic and genomic tools to marine ecology. Project ChallenGen is structured into three broad research lines, representing current challenges for marine ecologists:

1. To tackle and mitigate the problem of introduced species.
2. To develop new tools for biodiversity assessment.
3. To predict foreseeable changes in a scenario of increasing temperature.