Upcoming Events
2nd SedaDNA Society meeting
Save the date for the 2nd SedaDNA Society Conference, held from June 24th-25th, 2025, in Tromsø, Norway.
Pre-conference Workshops: June 23rd
Post-conference Excursions: June 26th
The official website of the conference is over here.
The IAL-IPA joint meeting 2025 will be in Aix les Bains, France from October 6-10, 2025. The conference has three sessions that could be of interest:
- "II-1-New perspectives and findings in paleolimnology using environmental ancient DNA" organised by Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Laura S. Epp, Charline Giguet-Covex, Maïlys Picard, Stanislav Jelavić, Antony G. Brown.
- "III-7-The coevolution of environments and biodiversity" organised by Leighton King, Pavani Misra, Irene Gregory-Eaves.
- "IV-1-Biogeochemical cycles in the subsurface: molecular and mineral proxies for integrated lacustrine studies" organised by Lotta Purkamo, Maïlys Picard, Aurèle Vuillemin, and Camille Thomas.
The International Joint Conference on “BioGeoEvolution: Bridging Past and Future Discoveries, BiGEvo 2025” aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations that deepen our understanding of the interplay between geological processes and the evolution of life on Earth. It will emphasize ancient microbial ecosystems as models for early Earth conditions and explore their modern applications in biotechnology and ecology. The conference will be held in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico, 28-30 May 2025, with pre and post-conference events occurring 26-27 May and 31 May - June 1. Abstract submission is now closed.
Monthly Recurring Events
Are you a student (BSc, MSc, PhD) or a postdoc working with sed(a)DNA? Would you like to meet with peers, discuss methods, data interpretation, present your latest findings? The ERCs seminar series are monthly meetings where early career researchers (ECRs) can discuss about sedaDNA and ask questions in a non-formal setting. Since labs working on sedaDNA are found all around the globe, we have split up the meetings into two time zones (the Americas and Europe/Africa), each with a local coordinator. Meeting are usually on the first Thursday of every month. To be added to the mailing list, please fill in this form.
Local coordinators:
Americas: Jordan Von Eggers (University of Wyoming, USA)
Europe/Africa: Inès Barrenechea (The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
Pasts Events
23-28 April 2023 Session BG5.3b at EGU2023' Novel molecular tools (biomarkers and DNA) in climatic and environmental archives – challenges, advances, and prospects' Conveners : Doreen Huang, Marina Morlock, Tobias Schneider. 07-09 June 2023 SedaDNA Meeting Potsdam, Germany. Local organizing committee: Ulrike Herzschuh, Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring, Liv Heinecke. Co-organized with the PaleoEcoGen PAGES working group. 13 December 2022 Seminar by Mark Louie D Lopez 'Combined use of sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) and indigenous knowledge in reconstructing historical fish records' 27 Nov-1 Dec 2022 Session 'Molecular applications and perspectives on modern and Quaternary environmental systems' at IAL-IPA, Bariloche, Argentina. 17 November 2022 Seminar by Linda Armbrecht 'Using ancient DNA from marine sediments (sedaDNA) to reconstruct Antarctica ecosystems' 20 October 2022 Seminar by James Fellows Yates 'Introduction to the SPAAM community and open-sciece initiatives' 16 August 2022 Seminar by Jamie Wood 'A virtual polar fieldtrip: ancient DNA from Antarctic terrestrial sediments' 07-10 August 2022 Session sedaDNA at SIL2022 'Studying the long-term dynamic of freshwater ecosystems through sedimentary DNA research: a potential tool for management and conservation' 14 July 2022 Seminar by Vilma Pérez 'Using sedimentary ancient DNA to assess the historical changes of prokaryotic communities in the Gippsland Lakes' 05-07 June 2022 Workshop 'Sedimentary ancient DNA: Introduction and current advances', Madison, USA 14-20 May 2022, Session 'Deciphering past aquatic ecosystem dynamics using sedimentary ancient DNA' at AMQUA2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA 21 April 2022 PaleoEcoGen Webinar by Allison Stegner 'Tracking abrupt ecological change in the Quaternary fossil record' 24 March 2022 PaleoEcoGen Webinar by Gavin Simpson 'Detecting change in palaeoecological time series, old and new' 24 February 2022 PaleoEcoGen Webinar by Zofia Taranu 'Detecting critical transitions and signals of changing resilience from paleo-ecological records: a multivariate approach' 27 January 2022 PaleoEcoGen Webinar by Charline Giguet-Covex 'Spatial variability of Past Trajectories of alpine ecosystems' 16 December 2021 Seminar by Eric Capo 'A full-year of trying to recover sediment ancient metagenomes from the Baltic Sea: torn between fun and despair' 17 November 2021 Seminar by Yucheng Wang 'Reconstructing 50,000 years Arctic environmental history using ancient eDNA' 05 October 2021 Bioinformatics workshop at Uppsala (Sweden) 04 October 2021 Mini-Symposium 'Recovering DNA from sedimentary archives' at Uppsala (Sweden) 09 June 2021 First Symposium of the African sedaDNA working group 17 June 2021 Seminar by Bárbara Moguel 'Metagenomic analysis of Lake Chalco sediments reveals large taxonomic diversity providing insights into the Holocene of Central Mexico' 20 May 2021 Seminar by Viviane Slon 'Identifying ancient human mitochondrial DNA in Pleistocene sediment' and Benjamin Vernot 'DNA in cave sediments reveals Neandertal population history' 28 April 2021 Session sedaDNA at EGU21 'Reconstruction of past ecosystems using sedimentary ancient DNA: Applications, method developments, analytic pipelines and data management' 14 April 2021 Seminar by Jill Pelto 'Science Communication Through Art' 18 March 2021 Seminar by Hussein Kanbar 'The effect of lake sediment geochemistry on DNA binding' 18 February 2021 Seminar by Rebecca Garner 'Sediment metagenomes as time capsules of lake microbiomes' 01 February 2021 Creation of the sedaDNA scientific society.
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