A recent collaboration between the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute Genetic Fingerprinting Laboratory (NFRDI-GFL)and Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History (NMNH) has concluded its one month expedition to collect commercial food fish around the Philippines. The project entitled DNA Barcoding of Commercially Important Food Fish in the Philippines was led by well-known taxonomist, Dr. Kent Carpenter who is currently a professor at Old Dominion University and the person who famously quoted that the Philippines is the center of the center of marine biodiversity in the world. He is accompanied by Dr. Jeffrey T. Williams, collections manager of the Smithsonian Institution and two research assistants from GFL, Apollo Lizano and Toby Potenciana. The team had their first sampling at different public markets around Davao City. All the way from Mindanao, they flew to Sorsogon City where they were assisted by Aida Andayog Research coordinator of the said region. Lastly, the team went to Tugegarao and Apari. According to Dr Williams “There were a lot of variety of fishes here in the Philippines and it surprises me every time we go to the different markets to collect samples. It is always greater than what we expect since we already collected a lot of fish from the same project last year”. Dr. Carpenter also added “We got the best fish collection team that Luzon has ever seen of course with the help of Doc Mudjie from NFRDI, this trip was a success”. In conclusion the team collected a total of 291 fish samples with approximately 270 different species of fish. Fish vouchers and tissue samples that were collected during the trip were brought at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C and can be accessed for research purposes upon request.
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On May 17, 2012, collections manager from the Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History held a seminar on Fish Taxonomy at National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI). Dr. Jeffrey T. Williams collections manager from the Smithsonian Institution delivered a talk on the importance of Fish Taxonomy on research. He pointed out that proper identification played a very great role to have a successful research most specially on the field of genetics like DNA barcoding, population genetics and other related studies. The opening remarks was led by Doc Mudjie and mentioned that young generations should know the importance of Taxonomy. Minerva Ventolero research assistant of Genetic Fingerprinting Laboratory and audience of the seminar said “ We are very lucky to be able to hear this kind of seminar, it helped me a lot on my study about the taxonomy of Ludong”. Researchers from NFRDI were very eager to ask questions which brought enlightenment and resolution to some of the difficulties they encountered in their research at NFRDI. |
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