22/09/2026
🐻 DivjaLabs na 29. mednarodni konferenci o raziskovanju in upravljanju medvedov (English below)
Ta teden se v Pescasseroliju v Italiji na konferenci srečujejo raziskovalci medvedov in strokovnjaki s področja varstva narave z vsega sveta. Z veseljem vidimo, da so raziskave in strokovno delo močno zastopani v programu.
🔗 Program konference in dodatne informacije: https://conference.bearbiology.org/
V četrtek, 24. septembra, b***a naša sodelavca in soustanovitelja Marta De Barba in Tomaž Skrbinšek predstavila dva prispevka, povezana z vprašanjem, ki je v središču našega dela: kako lahko genetski monitoring zagotavlja zanesljive, primerljive in neposredno uporabne informacije za varstvo in upravljanje populacij medvedov?
🧬 10:45 | Marta De Barba
*Visokozmogljivo standardizirano genotipiziranje medvedov za genetski monitoring in skupne podatkovne zbirke*
Marta bo predstavila naš pristop k genotipiziranju mikrosatelitov z visokozmogljivim sekvenciranjem, ki smo ga razvili kot odgovor na enega ključnih izzivov genetike prostoživečih živali: kako zagotoviti, da so podatki, pridobljeni v različnih laboratorijih, na različnih platformah, v različnih populacijah in v različnih časovnih obdobjih, med seboj dejansko primerljivi.
Pristop je bil doslej uporabljen v sedmih evropskih populacijah rjavega medveda, pa tudi pri himalajskem rjavem medvedu, azijskem črnem medvedu, medvedu ustnaču in malajskem medvedu. To odpira pomembne možnosti za standardiziran monitoring ter razvoj interoperabilnih genetskih podatkovnih zbirk.
🐻 14:45 | Tomaž Skrbinšek
*Stroškovno učinkoviti in uporabni podatki za varstvo in upravljanje: povezovanje visokozmogljivega sekvenciranja, demografskega modeliranja in občanske znanosti pri obsežnem programu monitoringa rjavega medveda*
Tomaž bo predstavil izkušnje iz dveh desetletij genetskega monitoringa rjavega medveda v Sloveniji, kjer smo visokozmogljivo genotipiziranje, obsežno zbiranje vzorcev v okviru občanske znanosti in demografsko modeliranje povezali v praktičen sistem za spremljanje populacije in podporo upravljanju.
Med zadnjim nacionalnim genetskim vzorčenjem je bilo zbranih 2.864 neinvazivnih genetskih vzorcev, celotna raziskava pa je bila zaključena v desetih mesecih.
To pa niso edini prispevki, povezani z DivjaLabs na konferenci. Marta, Tomaž in drugi člani naše ekipe so tudi soavtorji več drugih predavanj in posterjev, ki obravnavajo genetski monitoring apeninskega rjavega medveda, demografsko modeliranje v Sloveniji ter dolgoročni genetski monitoring v Grčiji.
Za nas je prav to bistvo uporabne varstvene genetike: pretvoriti robustne molekularne podatke v informacije, ki jih je mogoče deliti, primerjati in neposredno uporabiti pri odločitvah na področju varstva narave in upravljanja populacij.
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🐻 **DivjaLabs at the 29th International Conference on Bear Research and Management**
This week, bear researchers and conservation practitioners from around the world are meeting in Pescasseroli, Italy, for — and we are proud to see DivjaLabs research and expertise strongly represented in the programme.
🔗 Conference programme and information: https://conference.bearbiology.org/
On Thursday, 24 September, our colleagues and co-founders Marta De Barba and Tomaž Skrbinšek will present two contributions focused on a question central to our work: how can genetic monitoring provide reliable, comparable and actionable information for bear conservation and management?
🧬 10:45 | Marta De Barba
*High throughput standardized bear genotyping for genetic monitoring and common databases*
Marta will present our high-throughput sequencing approach to microsatellite genotyping, developed to overcome one of the persistent challenges in wildlife genetics: making data generated across laboratories, platforms, populations and years truly comparable.
The approach has now been applied across **seven European brown bear populations**, as well as Himalayan brown bears, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears and sun bears — opening important possibilities for standardized monitoring and interoperable genetic databases.
🐻 14:45 | Tomaž Skrbinšek
*Cost-effective actionable data for conservation and management: combining high-throughput sequencing, demographic modelling and citizen science for a large-scale brown bear monitoring program*
Tomaž will present lessons from two decades of genetic monitoring of brown bears in Slovenia, where high-throughput genotyping, large-scale citizen-science sampling and demographic modelling have been combined into a practical system for population monitoring and management. During the latest national genetic survey, 2,864 non-invasive samples were collected, with the complete study finished within ten months.
And these are not the only DivjaLabs-linked contributions at the conference. Marta, Tomaž and other members of our team are also co-authors of additional talks and posters covering genetic monitoring of the Apennine brown bear, demographic modelling in Slovenia and long-term genetic monitoring in Greece.
For us, this is exactly what applied conservation genetics should do: turn robust molecular data into information that can be shared, compared and used for real-world conservation decisions.
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