TreeBOL Africa Michelle van der Bank, Olivier Maurin, Adeniyi
Jayeola Slide 2 Objectives of TreeBOL To advance plant DNA
barcoding To learn and teach about plant DNA barcoding To provide
leadership in the arena of plant DNA barcoding To help fulfill the
goal of having + 500 000 organisms barcoded To complete a database
of DNA barcodes for the worlds 100 000 species of trees Slide 3
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF TreeBOL GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION OF
TreeBOL K. Cameron; D. Little; J. Miller AFRICA M. van der Bank O.
Maurin A. Jayeola EUROPE J. Caujap-Castells F. Forest AFRICA M. van
der Bank O. Maurin A. Jayeola NORTH AMERICA K. Cameron S. Graham
MESO AMERICA G. Salazar SOUTH AMERICA C. Van den Berg S. Madrinan
EUROPE J. Caujap-Castells F. Forest AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND A. Lowe
D. Crayn B. Summerell TEMPERATE NORTH ASIA K.J. Kim G.E. Xuejun
TROPICAL SOUTHEAST ASIA J. Richardson R. Chung L.G. Saw INDIA T.
Husain R. Tuli L.B. Chaudhary Slide 4 African side of Tree-BOL,
plans and goals: A kick-off workshop (October 2008) identify the
key species/species groups to be targeted Identification of the
need of collaborators Setting up target Website
(www.uj.ac.za/botany select tree-BOL Africa)www.uj.ac.za/botany
Compiling a list of southern Africa trees (September 2008)
Compiling a checklist of African trees (January 2009) Setting up
collaboration (SAf & all Africa) Collection/Barcoding of the
estimated 1 700 trees native to southern Africa (November 2009)
Collection/Barcoding of the estimated 1 000 trees occurring in the
CTFSPLOTS in Africa (January 2010). Collection/Barcoding of 10-15%
of African trees (March 2010) Slide 5 University of Johannesburg
Workshop 9-10 of October 2008 Slide 6 Slide 7 The workshop Plant
Barcoding & Tree-BOL introduction Each invited speaker
presented its flora, target group of interest. Setting up the need
of each country, institution How UJ could provide help and support
to the projects collaborators Slide 8 Workshop output Setting up
regional groups (southern, eastern, western Africa). BOLD structure
Traded trees, Medicinal plants, taxonomical groups, region
potentially rich Fund application in each country/group Kick-off
with support from UJ ( silica gel, taq, training) Feedback after 6
months from each institution, groups, and countries Slide 9 Our
plans after the first workshop Annual workshop, Barcoding training
week Grant writing training (NRF, RS), proposal sharing to help
with grant applications Student training at UJ through specific
projects Advice through website on barcoding (plant collection,
extraction, sequencing, submission to BOLD) Advice on setting up
DNA banking Information sharing (protocols) Slide 10 DNA barcoding
of plant Need to be setup with Guelph, BOLD Seqeuencing and BOLD
setup No standard protocols available for plant since barcode just
agreed on. Ongoing test between Guelph and UJ on Trees and Shrubs
of the Kruger National Park Participating institutions might not
need sequencing facility, since all barcoding process could be
perform at Guelph) Slide 11 The project so far: Report to New York
after 6 months: Webpage setup (to improve and update) Grant
proposal UJ, application to setup a center of excellence devoted to
barcoding Workshop and collaboration setup Material ready to be
barcoded (800 species) Grant proposal workshop in planning
Molecular technical training (association with FishBOL) in planning
Slide 12 TreeBOL Africa website Project presentation Information to
collectors Lists, Standard of the data for easy merging Protocols
News Press release Contacts details of associates and collaborators
Slide 13 TreeBOL Africa website Slide 14 Project presentation
Information to collectors Lists, Standard of the data for easy
merging Protocols News Press release Contacts details of associates
and collaborators Slide 15 Slide 16 Slide 17 TreeBOL Africa website
Project presentation Information to collectors Lists, Standard of
the data for easy merging Protocols News Press release Contacts
details of associates and collaborators Slide 18 Call for
participation Contact for TreeBOL Africa in Johannesburg (Michelle
van der Bank, Olivier Maurin) Contact southern Africa (Robert
Archer, Meg Coates Palgrave, Barbara Curtis) Contact west Africa
(Adeniyi Jayeola, Toyin Ogundipe, Kowiyou Yessoufou) Contact east
Africa (Yalem Mekonnen, Geoffrey Mwachala ) Contact Indian Ocean
(Yasmina Jaufeerally-Fakim ) Slide 19
