February 2022 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
The first month of the year has come to pass, and again the society has not been sitting still. Yesterday, the 3rd of February, we officially launched the student seminar series by, and for students of the society. On the same day, we had great meetings in three different parts of the world! Because we want the students to be more involved in society, we created a student board, with as representative Ines Barrenechea (Europe), Maïlys Picard (New Zealand), and Jordan Von Eggers (USA), who are coordinating the seminars in three different time zones. If you are a student and haven't signed up yet, you can do so here.
February society seminar
The PaleoEcoGen & sedaDNA Society seminar will be provided by inited speaker Zofia Taranu, giving the talk entitled "Detecting critical transitions and signals of changing resilience from paleo-ecological records: a multivariate approach". The seminar will be on February 24th 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
Tyler Murchie et al., (2022) published "Pleistocene mitogenomes reconstructed from the environmental DNA of permafrost sediments" in Current Biology.
Shouliang Huo et al., (2022) published "Long-term succession of Microcystis genotypes is driven by hydrological conditions and anthropogenic nutrient loading in a large shallow lake" in Journal of Hydrology.
Maïlys Picard et al., (2022) published "Molecular and Pigment Analyses Provide Comparative Results When Reconstructing Historic Cyanobacterial Abundances from Lake Sediment Cores"in Microorganisms.
Eric Capo and Marie-Eve Monchamp et al., (2022) published "Environmental paleomicrobiology: using DNA preserved in aquatic sediments to its full potential "in Environmental Microbiology.
Katie Brasell et al., (2022) published " Shifts in DNA yield and biological community composition in stored sediment: implications for paleogenomic studies" in Metabacroding and Metagenomics.
Anushree Sanyal et al., (2022) published " Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia" in American Journal of Botany.
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.