2016年度秋季学期学术系列讲座之一
题目：Environmental DNA and biodiversity
讲座人：Dr Pierre Taberlet
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Laboratoire d`Ecologie Alpine (LECA)
时间：2016年9月23日，13:00 - 14:30
地点：william hill中文网邓祐才报告厅
主持人：姚蒙
Abstract:
Abstract: Next generation sequencing (NGS) is transforming our approach for solving questions in biology in general. Contrary to most of the standard applications of NGS, we do not focus on genome sequencing, but on the analysis of environmental DNA that is extracted from soil, water, or air, without first isolating any target organisms. Taking advantage of NGS, we implemented an approach we call DNA metabarcoding. It corresponds to the high-throughput and simultaneous taxa identification based on a very short but informative DNA fragment. I will present different research fields where DNA metabarcoding results have the potential of providing significant progresses: trophic interactions, biodiversity surveys, and  reconstruction of past ecosystems, either using lake sediments, or using permafrost samples.
Biographical Sketch：
Pierre Taberlet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique “Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine”, Grenoble, France.
Pierre Taberlet studied biology and geology at the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble (France) from 1972 to 1976. He was a biology teacher in a high school from 1978 to 1989. He obtained a PhD in 1992 from the University Joseph Fourier, and the Habilitation in 1993. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1994. He has worked in the “Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine” (Grenoble), first as junior scientist (1994-1998), and then as senior scientist (1999-present). He was the head of this laboratory from 1999 to 2010. For the past 20 years, his research team has been working in the field of molecular ecology, with emphasis on the phylogeography of wild animals and plants, on conservation genetics (development of non-invasive sampling), and on domestication of goats and sheep. More recently, he is involved in the study of the genetic basis of local adaptation based using a landscape genomics approach, and on biodiversity assessment using environmental samples (soil, water) and new sequencing technologies. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is currently editor of Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, and Science Advances. He received the Molecular Ecology Prize in 2007.
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