Section outline

  • Round Table 5: IJI e-services and disruptive technologies for NIS research

    Chairpersons: Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director & Wim Jansen – European Commission

    • Joris Timmermans – LifeWatch ERIC VLIC: Scientific development for Essential Biodiversity Variables workflows
    • Ilaria Rosati – Italian National Research Council, LifeWatch Italy & Nicola Fiore – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Team: Semantics and Ontologies-related technologies
    • Isabel Campos Plasencia – LifeWatch ERIC STAB: HPC and Cloud-related technologies
    • José F. Aldana Montes – University of Málaga, LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Big Data Analytics and Workflows composition
    • Lucia Vaira – LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre & Antoni Huguet-Vives – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Towards new user-friendly interfaces
    • Antonio-José Sáenz-Albanés – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core: Integration within LifeWatchERIC Tesseract VRE
    • Siham Tabik – ICT Core UGR: AI Deep Learning
    Session 4: eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for early detection of nonindigenous freshwater species (IJI Validation Case #5)

    Chairperson: Christos Arvanitidis – Chief Executive Officer

    • Presentation of scientific (Ana Filipa Filipe – CIBIO-InBIO) and technological (José F. Aldana Montes – University of Málaga, LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the Metabarcording workflow: collecting eDNA data of freshwater fish to update national NIS databases.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects, including Mirjam Boonstra – Life Mica.
    Session 5: Habitat vulnerability to NIS and impact on biotopes (IJI Validation Case #3)

    Chairperson: Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director

    • Presentation of scientific (Julien Radoux – UCLouvain & Heliana Teixeira – University of Aveiro) and technological (Jesús Gallardo & Nikos Minadakis – LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core) results of the Biotope vulnerability workflow: ecosystem and habitat vulnerability mapping at national and continental scale to infer the relevance of key risk factors and intrinsic resistance/resilience components. This workflow is suitable for all types of aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial ecosystems.
    • General discussion with relevant contributions from international initiatives/projects.
    Final remarks
    • Juan Miguel González-Aranda – Chief Technology Officer/ICT Core Director
    • Alberto Basset – Service Centre Director
    • Peter H. Van Tienderen – VLIC Director