January 2022 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
First of all, we hope everyone had a great Christmas break and we want to wish a Happy New Year to all the members of society. The holiday season is now slowly coming to an end. There are two announcements we would like to make. From now on, the monthly society seminar will be organized through the PaleoEcoGen project (Pages), with a great first talk by Charline Giguet-Covex coming up already in January (see information below). Further, we would like to highlight that we have new researchers in the society's advisory board which can be found on the society webpage. As usual, papers published in the previous month are listed below
January society seminar
The first PaleoEcoGen talk will be given by Charline Giguet-Covex entitled "Spatial variability of Past Trajectories of alpine ecosystems". The seminar will be on January 27th at 3 pm UTC. The seminar can be joined by everyone interested, a zoom link will be shared later. To keep up to date, and get information, sign up to the PaleoEcoGen mailing list
New papers
Sichao Huang et al., (2021) published "Plant Sedimentary Ancient DNA From Far East Russia Covering the Last 28,000 Years Reveals Different Assembly Rules in Cold and Warm Climates" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Maija Heikkilä et al., (2021) published "Predicting the future of coastal marine ecosystems in the rapidly changing Arctic: the potential of palaeoenvironmental records" in Anthropocene.
Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al., (2021) published "Ancient human genomes and environmental DNA from the cement attaching 2,000 year-old head lice nits" in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Diyendo Massilani et al., (2021) published "Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments" in PNAS.
Lorelei Curtin et al., (2021) published "Sedimentary DNA and molecular evidence for early human occupation of the Faroe Islands" in Communications Earth & Environment.
Tyler J. Murchie et al., (2021) published "Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA" in Nature Communications
Contact me at kevin.nota@ebc.uu.se or sedimentarydna@gmail.com if you want to announce something to the society, or if you have a recent paper that you would like to advertise in the newsletter.