SYNTHESYS

Danish Taxonomic Facility (DK-TAF)

(formerly known as: Copenhagen Biosystematics Centre - COBICE)

Together with complementary facilities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, DK-TAF offers access to researchers from member and associated states of the European Community to utilize the collections and other facilities of the following departments of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Copenhagen:

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK :

• Botanical Garden
• Botanical Museum and Library
• Geological Museum
• Zoological Museum

BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE:

• Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Microbiology
• Phycology

Available hosts:

Natural History Museum of Denmark:
Botanic Garden: Knud Ib Christensen, Ole Hamann, Hans V. Hansen, Peter Krogstrup

Botanical Museum: Ib Friis, Eric Steen Hansen, Henning Knudsen, Ruth Nielsen, Henrik Ærenlund Pedersen, Olof Ryding

Geological Museum: Gilles Cuny, Svend Funder, Niels Hald, David Harper, Henning Haack, Erik Schou Jensen, Ole Johnsen, Arne Thorshøj Nielsen, Asger Ken Pedersen, Ole V. Petersen, Christopher Ries, Minik Rosing

Zoological Museum: Hans J. Baagøe, Danny Eibye-Jacobsen, Henrik Enghoff, Jon Fjeldså, Niels P. Kristensen, Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Peter Rask Møller, Claus Nielsen, Jørgen Olesen, Thomas Pape, Carsten Rahbek, Jens B. Rasmussen, Nikolaj Scharff, Ole S. Tendal, Lars Vilhelmsen, Kim Aaris-Sørensen.

Institute of Biology:
Dept. of Cell Biology and Comparative Zoology - the zoomorphologists: Jens Høegh, Åse Jespersen, Andreas Wanninger

Dept. of Evolutionary Biology: Peter Arctander, Signe Frederiksen, Bo Johansen, Lise Bolt Jørgensen, Bo Vest Pedersen, Gitte Petersen, Finn Rasmussen, Ole Seberg, Hans Siegismund

Dept. of Microbiology - the mycologists: Rasmus Kjøller ,Thomas Læssøe, Søren Rosendal, Ulrik Søchting.

Dept. of Phycology: Niels Daugbjerg, Marianne Ellegaard, Øjvind Moestrup. Poul Møller Pedersen

DK-TAF is the successor of the COBICE programme which offered access to the abovementioned facilities during from 2000 to early 2004.

DK-TAF access is offered in the framework of the SYNTHESYS programme. SYNTHESYS (SYNTHEsis of SYStematic Resources) is an Integrated Infrastructures Initiative funded under the European Union's 6th framework programme. In addition to access programmes in the 11 participating countries, SYNTHESYS includes a number of networking activities.

SYNTHESYS is an initiative of the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF, www.cetaf.org) and is coordinated by the Natural History Museum of London .

The first deadline for applications to DK-TAF and its European counterparts is September 17th 2004.

Further information can be found on SYNTHESYS' homepage, www.synthesys.info where you can register to be kept informed of SYNTHESYS progress.

For further information, contact

DK-TAF

Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum)

Universitetsparken 15

DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø

phone +45 35 32 03 94  (Gertrud Rygaard )

fax +45 35 32 04 60

email grygaard @ cnd.ku.dk