North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting: May 17-21, 2009.
The Baird lab sent 4 people to the annual NABS meeting in Grand Rapids Michigan. Donald co-chaired a special session with Bernard Sweeney entitled “Environmental barcoding: Genomic Solutions for Biomonitoring” looking at the progress and challenges regarding the use of DNA barcoding in biomonitoring applications. Wendy, David, and Colin also presented their research – everyone’s talks were well received and some valuable research contacts were established.