As part of the Australian and New Zealand Entomological Conference at ANU in December, the CBA will be hosting lab tours of the ABDF and demonstrations of the DiversityScanner pipelines.

Explore cutting-edge biodiversity research in a series of fast-paced talks—from thermal sensitivity and parasite genomics to airborne eDNA, population histories, the Bogong Moth Summit, and the Diversity Scanner. Don’t miss this snapshot of innovation in environmental science!

An opportunity to hear about and observe the DiversityScanner at the newly established Australian Biodiversity Discovery Facility and discuss ways of testing and developing this novel technology in Australia.

A round table discussion with Rudolf Meier from Museum fur Naturkunde, on how his rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and delimitation methods can benefit Australian systematics and taxonomy.

Rudolf Meier, from the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, will discuss his novel methods to accelerate biodiversity discovery and monitoring of "dark taxa" using robotics, machine learning imaging and nanopore sequencing.