December 2021 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
This is the first version of the newsletter that is sent through the new google groups, rather than the MailChimp tool that you are used to. To make the mails less cumbersome to read and reduce the risk the newsletters are ending up in the spam folder. We are now only sending the general introduction of the newsletter through email every first Friday of the month with a single web link to the specific edition of the newsletter on the new society website.
We as the organization and advisory board would like to already wish everyone a great holiday season. We are looking forward to many new initiatives that will be starting in the new year!
December society seminar
Eric Capo will dgive a short talk about "A full-year of trying to recover sediment ancient metagenomes from the Baltic Sea: torn between fun and despair" - 16 December 4 pm UTC+1. Zoom link will be send by calender invite
New papers
Linda Armbrecht et al., (2021) published "Paleo-diatom composition from Santa Barbara Basin deep-sea sediments: a comparison of 18S-V9 and diat-rbcL metabarcoding vs shotgun metagenomics" in ISME communications.
Devon Gorbey et al., (2021) published "Southern Baffin Island mean annual precipitation isotopes modulated by summer and autumn moisture source changes during the past 5800 years" in the Journal of Quaternary Sience.
Weihan Jia et al., (2021) published "Preservation of sedimentary plant DNA is related to lake water chemistry" in Environmental DNA.
Mohamed S. Sarhan et al., (2021) published "Ancient DNA diffuses from human bones to cave stones" in iScience.
Jan Pawlowski et al., (2021) published "Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods" in Science of The Total Environment.
Frank Maixner et al., (2021) published "Linear polyacrylamide is highly efficient in precipitating and purifying environmental and ancient DNA" in Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Preprints
Peter Andreas Seeber and colleagues (2021) made the preprint "Fungal biodiversity in Arctic paleoecosystems assessed by metabarcoding of lake sedimentary ancient DNA" available at Research Square Preprints.
Barbara von Hippel and colleagues (2021) made the preprint "Long-term fungus–plant co-variation from multi-site sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding in Siberia" available at Research Square Preprints.
New Positions
PhD position in bioinformatics involving sedimentary ancient DNA is available at the Technical University of Denmark with Gabriel Renaud. The application deadline is the 12th of December 2021.
Tenure track position Canada Research Chair Tier II in Sustainability of Ecological Systems, Concordia University, Montreal. The application deadline is the 15th of December 2021.
Conference announcement
The JASM2022 conferene has the session "Deciphering past aquatic ecosystem dynamics using sedimentary ancient DNA" orginized by Trisha Spanbauer, Eric Capo, Marie-Eve Monchamp, and Cecilia Barouillet. Abstracts can be submitted until the 10th of January 2022.