DiversityScanner

Australian Biodiversity Discovery Facility Tours

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.

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Date/time
5 Dec 2025 10:00am - 5 Dec 2025 3:00pm
person Speaker

Speakers

Rachel Mapperson | Senior Research Officer
Josh Coates | Research Officer
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Megan Head
Project Lead
Claire Stephens
CBA Coordinator

About

As part of the 5th Combined Australian and New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference the Centre for Biodiversity Analysis will be hosting lab tours of the Australian Biodiversity Discovery Facility (ABDF).

The tour will include demonstrations of the DiversityScanner pipeline that combines robotics, high-throughput genomic sequencing and machine learning to scan, image, classify and quantify invertebrate taxa from mass environmental samples.

Four 1-hour tours will be held starting at 10am, 11am, 1pm and 2pm. You can choose a time when registering

 

 

 

Partners & sponsors

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CSIRO
UCanberra
Centre for Biodiversity Analysis
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ABRS
BushBlitz

Location

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RN Robertson Building

RN Robertson Building, Research School of Biology, 46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University.

We will meet in the foyer of the RN Robertson Building (next to the Little Pickle Cafe) at the beginning of each tour.

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