7/29 10:00 AM
Chu-Yu Lecture Hall (Room 614), 6F, Xue-Xin Building, NTU.
"From Unknown to Described and Identifiable: Tackling Insect Diversity with Robots, Megabarcoding, and Machine Learning"
Prof. Rudolf Meier | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Prof. Rudolf Meier is the head of the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery at the Museum für Naturkunde where he and his lab are at the forefront of novel methods to accelerate biodiversity discovery and monitoring using robotics, machine learning imaging and nanopore sequencing. The main foci of this work are the hyper-diverse invertebrate groups that are traditionally extremely difficult to sort, identify and describe - "dark taxa", groups for which <10% of all species are described and the estimated diversity exceeds 1000 species.