Updates & News

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News Alert: Flooding in the ASU Biocollections

Last Thursday-Friday night, November 16-15th 2024 a large part of the ASU Biocollections were inundated when a water mains on Alameda Avenue broke.
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Advanced Symbiota Checklists: Workshop at the GLAL XVI

As part of the XVI meeting of the Grupo Latinoamericano de Liquenólogos (GLAL XVI), we had a great in-person workshop in Mexico
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Symbiota Software Development Internship

The Arizona State University, Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC), is offering a new internship for an undergraduate computer science student to develop and maintain the Symbiota software platform code base.
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Another Form of Appreciation

By Alexander Fenlon
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NEON Biorepository rolling launch update

Dear Research Community:
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Workshop: The Future of Systematics in Data-Centric Biology

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Discovering a New Species in Nevada

This morning, I had a new paper published on the beautiful darkling beetles in the genus Eleodes - commonly known as the 'Desert Stink Beetles'.  In this paper I described a new species I discovered from doing field work in Nevada during the summer of 2015.
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Join us for a Day of Discovery! September 10th

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Two upcoming computational biology workshops

We have two workshops sponsored by BioKIC coming up. Please register if you plan on attending so we can plan accordingly for food and for future workshops.  Deadline for registration is midnight Wednesday May 4th. 
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Are Herbaria Still Relevant in the 21st Century?

By Walter Fertig, Arizona State University herbarium Originally published in Sego Lily 2016 Vol 39(1):6-8.
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New course: Species, traits, and trees

We are announcing a new course, offered during Session B of the 2016 Summer: Species, Traits, and Trees - A Hands-On Introduction to Phylogenetic Systematics.
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Brian H. Reily

2015 - present: M.Sc. Student in Biology, School of Life Sciences, ASU 2014 - B.Sc. in Biology & Ecology (with concentration in Marine Biology), Louisiana State University 2012 - A.Sc. in Natural Sciences (with concentration in Biology), Baton Rouge Community College
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ASUHIC detailed description of holdings

The Hasbrouck Insect Collection is named in honor of Dr. Frank F. Hasbrouck, an expert on the "burrowing webworm moth" family Acrolophidae (Lepidotera) who was recruited to Arizona State University in 1962.
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ASUHIC gifts in kind

Opportunities for making gifts in kind
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ASUHIC specimen transactions

Our specimens are available for study
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New publication: Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment

The following paper was published in late 2015, with Nico Franz and Guanyang Zhang as ASU co-authors.
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Microbial Proteomics Workshop in review

... Sponsors: School of Life Sciences ASU, Genome@ASU, Microbiology Graduate Students Association (MGSA), Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC).
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Introduction to Galaxy Workshop in review

We hosted workshop in January: Introduction to Galaxy January 8, 2016 Presented by: Anton Nekrutenko Organized by: Melissa A. Wilson Sayres and Nico Franz Sponsored by: ASU's Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center
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Welcome to the BioKIC Academy

This blog post introduces the BioKIC Academy program, led by Anne Basham, and focused on promoting literacy and understanding of our biodiversity â€‹via collection-based pedagogy.
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Systematics discussion: Making globally unique identifiers work for biocollections data

Blog posts related to the ASU-SoLS seminar "Current Topics in Systematics" (BIO 494 / EVO 598), formerly posted here (with 53 posts), are now migrating to the BioKIC blog.
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BioKIC Social Media Icon

This is our new BioKIC social media icon, developed by Jo Ramirez of the SoLS VISLAB, and available for use in any social media context. You can see an example of the icon in use on the