sedaDNA Scientific Society

The organizing board

Maïlys Picard

Coordinator

Umeå University

Umeå, Sweden

Ines Barrenechea

UiT

Tromsø, Norway

Jordan Von Eggers

University of Wyoming

Laramie, USA

Kuldeep More

CAGT

Toulouse, France

Grayson Huston

University of Maine

Orono, USA

Dongna Yan

IEE, CAS

Xi'an, China

Maïlys Picard has a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Waikato, based at the Cawthron Institute (Aotearoa / New Zealand), where she investigated drivers of cyanobacterial blooms in lakes. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Umeå (Sweden) and her research aims to understand and reconstruct lake and coastal systems histories, with a particular interest in functional changes.

Ines Barrenechea has a PhD in Earth Sciences from Geneva University. Her PhD research was focused on reconstructing marine biodiversity and on biomonitoring using eDNA metabarcoding. Current research interest is marine extremophiles (protists) from ancient and recent sediments. She is currently a postdoc at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. Ines is responsible for organising PhD seminars from Europe/Africa time zone.

Jordan Von Eggers is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Wyoming. Her research focuses on how natural and anthropogenic pressures have shaped the current and past biodiversity of lower trophic levels in remote, high elevation lake ecosystems across multiple spatial scales. Jordan organizes the student seminar series for the Americas and Oceania time zones and updates the inventory of environmental ancient DNA from sedimentary archives.

Kuldeep More has a Ph.D. in Sedimentary Paleogenomics from Curtin University, Perth and his research is focused on assessing the impact of paleo-environmental variabilities on the past ecosystems. He is currently working as a Marie Skłodowska Curie IEF post-doctoral researcher in the AGES group at Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse (CAGT), France. In the society, Kuldeep is managing informations from new members.

Grayson Huston is a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Environmental Science at the University of Maine – Orono. His research is focused on the recovery and detection of fish DNA from aquatic sediments, with an emphasis on the impact of dams on Maine’s migratory fish species. Within the society, Grayson is one of the leads in the fish working group.