Online working group (23-26th November 2020)
Toward harmonisation for the generation of metabarcoding data:
Soil Biodiversity and Terrestrial Arthropod modules
ORGANISERS
The main objective of this working group is to use the joint experience and background of the attendees (many of who are involved in the implemention of metabarcoding approaches to different biodiversity fractions and with differential goals), to (i) review existing background and (ii) to derive a consensus for a minimum set of protocols across the sequence of the fundamental steps of the metabarcoding data generation. The working group will focus on two biodiversity fractions: soil biodiversity and terrestrial arthropods. We realise that it is unrealistic and overambitious to think that the proposals arising from this working group will be a golden standard to be followed for any researcher independently of the different scientific interests or questions addressed. Instead, what we aim for is to: (i) improve metabarcoding standardisation and integration, and (ii) provide a useful resource for new users of metabarcoding that will thus facilitate future data integration.
PARTICIPANTS

Dr. Lucie Zinger
Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, France

Dr. Evan Economo
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Dr. Stefan Geisen
Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Dr. Jeremy deWaard
iBOL, University of Guelph, Canada

Dr. Marta Goberna
Spanish National Institute for Agronomic Research

Prof. Vojtech Novotny
Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic

Dr. Kristine Bohmann
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Henrik Krehenwinkel
Trier University, Germany

Dr. Vasco Elbrech
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Germany

Dr. Carmelo Andújar
IPNA-CSIC, Spain