Biodiversity_Next conference, Leiden- The Netherlands 2019

The HUJI NNHC members participated at the Biodiversity_Next conference to share ideas, research and tools to promote innovation in biodiversity & geodiversity information science and applications.

Yael Leshno from the Mollusc collection and

 Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, head of HUJ NNHC and member of the organizing committee of the conference, Prof. Rivka Rabinovich and Dr. Eshel Ofir participated in workshops, symposia, and meetings to enhance research. Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev from the Arachnid collection contributed an oral presentations on the value of citizen science in the study of Israel’s scorpiones.

Yael Leshno represented the Mollusc collection in a talk on the digitization efforts of the recent brachiopod collection and it’s importance to different research avenues such as paleoecology.