2023 Barcode Long Island Symposium Keynote address: James Lendemer, Ph.D.

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Since 2014, high school students and teachers across Long Island have participated in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center’s research program, Barcode Long Island (BLI). Through this program, originally developed with funding by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (a branch of the National Institutes of Health) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), student teams use DNA barcoding to address biodiversity-focused research projects. Just as a unique pattern of bars in a universal product code (UPC) identifies each item for sale in a store, a DNA barcode is a DNA sequence that can potentially identify each living thing. DNA barcoding integrates big ideas from molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, ecology, and biodiversity – while at the same time providing the flexibility to address a variety of student-driven questions. The program culminates annually with a student symposium. Please enjoy our 2022-23 BLI Symposium keynote address, "Deciphering the Dimensions of Lichen Diversity From Cities to Wilderness" presented by Dr. James Lendemer, Ph.D., Associate Curator at the New York Botanical Garden and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Founded in 1890, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, and quantitative biology. Home to eight Nobel Prize winners, the private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,100 people including 600 scientists, students, and technicians. The Meetings & Courses Program hosts more than 12,000 scientists from around the world each year on its campuses on Long Island and in Suzhou, China. The Laboratory's education arm also includes an academic publishing house, a graduate school, and the DNA Learning Center (DNALC). (https://www.cshl.edu) (https://dnalc.cshl.edu) In 1988, CSHL established the DNALC as the world’s first science center devoted entirely to public genetics education, and now operates facilities in Cold Spring Harbor, Brooklyn, Harlem, and Sleepy Hollow https://dnalc.cshl.edu/about/. The DNALC popularized several methods for delivering genetics instruction, including student laboratory field trips and summer camps, educator workshops, biotechnology kits, laboratory textbooks, equipment sharing consortia, student DNA sequencing, educational interfaces to bioinformatics tools, and multimedia learning materials for biology education.