sedaDNA Scientific Society

The organizing board

Kevin Nota

Communicator

MPI-EVA

Leipzig, Germany

Cécilia Barouillet

INRAE UMR CARRTEL

Thonon-les-Bains, France

Kuldeep More

CAGT

Toulouse, France

Ines Barrenechea

UiT

Tromsø, Norway

Jordan Von Eggers

University of Wyoming

Laramie, USA

Grayson Huston

University of Maine

Orono, USA

Maïlys Picard

Cawthron Institute

Nelson, New-Zealand

Dongna Yan

IEE, CAS

Xi'an, China

Eric Capo

Coordinator

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kevin Nota has a PhD in molecular paleoecology from Uppsala University. His PhD research was focused on reconstructing past flora from lake sediments and peat records. Current research interest in population genomics from ancient environmental samples. He is currently a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Kevin is responsible for distributing the monthly newsletters, coordinating student seminars, and co-organized the first society symposium.

Cecilia Barouillet has a PhD in Biology paleolimnology from Queen's University (PEARL laboratory, Kingston, Canada) and is now post-doc at INRAE UMR CARRTEL (Thonon-les-Bains, France). Her research interests focus on reconstructing the long-term ecological trajectory of lakes and studying changes in lake ecosystems functioning in response to environmental change and anthropogenic stressors. Cecilia is VP at the International Society of Limnology and coordinate actions in the African sedaDNA working group.

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.

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.

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.

Maïlys Picard is finishing her Ph.D. in molecular paleoecology from the Cawthron Institute and the University of Waikato (New Zealand), investigating the links between cyanobacterial blooms and the introduction of non-native fish in New Zealand lakes. She is helping with student seminars.

Eric Capo has a Ph.D. in molecular paleoecology from INRAE UMR CARRTEL (Thonon-les-Bains, France) with strong interests in the ecology of freshwater and marine microbial communities. Eric is the founder and coordinator of the society and is assistant professor at Umeå University (Sweden).