John Hooper

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About John Hooper

Invited Sessional Speaker,'Connecting Biodiversity Collections in the Pacific: Digitization through DNA Barcoding and Informatics Session', 12th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, University of the South Pacific, 10-11 July & Instructor 'Sponge Taxonomy Training Workshop, IAS USP', 15-17 July 2013, Suva, Fiji- Plenary Speaker,'Collections & Systematics Session', Atlas of Living Australia Science Symposium (ALASS13), 12-13 June 2013, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Canberra Invited Sessional Speaker,'Assembling the Poriferan Tree of Life Symposium', Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2013 Annual Meeting, 3-7 January 2013, San Francisco, USA (ICB doi: 10.1093/icb/ict038)- Invited Plenary Speaker,'The Promise of Biodiversity Session', International Congress on Natural Products Research 2012 (ICNPR2012), New York, NY - July 28 to August 1, 2012 - American Society of Pharmacognosy (Planta Medica 78 (11), IL3)- Invited member to the 'Discussion Panel On Marine Genetic Resources for the 8th Annual United Nations Informal Consultative Process for Oceans and the Law of the Sea Specialties: Expert on the taxonomy of Phylum Porifera;+30 years experience in natural history museums; proponent for marine bioregionalisation and marine sanctuaries based on science; advocate for online biodiversity knowledge into the public domain; advocate for a nationalised distributed online Australian National Collection of Natural History (biodiversity, palaeontology, geology)