JBRJ participates in GGBN conference

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute technologist Luciana Ozório Franco took part in the Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) 2023 conference, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, in Mexico, from October 17 to 20. In her talk at the "Biodiversity Biobank Collections: Infrastructure" session, Luciana spoke about the use of Jabot in the curation of leaf tissue (RBtissue) and DNA (RBdna) collections.

The meeting aimed to communicate ideas, new tools, share experiences in biodiversity and environmental biobanks, as well as encourage the community to make genomic collections public and widely available for research, in accordance with the Nagoya Protocol.

Watch the video of the presentation