March 2022 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
Another month has passed, bringing us closer to the spring which is waiting around the corner. There will be a lot of opportunities for the sedaDNA enthusiasts at the SIL (science of inland waters) congress in Berlin this year (Aug 7th-10th 2022). Cécilia Barouillet (INRAE), Ebuka Nwosu (GFZ-Hemlholtz), Eric Capo (ICM-CSIC), and Laura S Epp (Konstanz University), are hosting at Special Session 'Studying the long-term dynamic of freshwater ecosystems through sedimentary DNA research: a potential tool for management and conservation' at SIL2022 in Berlin, Germany. The congress will be held in a hybrid format, both online and on-site presentations/participation possible. Abstract submissions are now open. Abstract submission deadline is the 5th of April 2022
We also like to congratulate Susie Wood for winning the Kilham Lecture Award this year. Awarded by SIL, it requires a synthesis in one subject aligned with Peter Kilham's research (African limnology, biogechemistry, ecology and pysiology of planktonic diatoms, comparative ecology of lakes and oceans, paleolimnology, or saline lakes) to be delivered during SIL2022 in Berlin! If you wish to attend her lecture in person or online, we can register for the SIL2022 congress.
March society seminar
The PaleoEcoGen & sedaDNA Society seminar will be provided by inited speaker Gavin Simpson, giving the talk entitled "Detecting change in palaeoecological time series, old and new". The seminar will be on March 24th at 3 pm UTC. The seminar can be joined by everyone interested, a zoom link will be shared through the PaleoEcoGen mailing lits, for which you can sign up here: PaleoEcoGen mailing list
New papers
Hebah Mejbel et al., (2022) published "Effects of temperature and oxygen on cyanobacterial DNA preservation in sediments: A comparison study of major taxa" in Environmental DNA.
Narumi Tsugeki et al., (2022) published "Reconstruction of 100-year dynamics in Daphnia spawning activity revealed by sedimentary DNA" in Scientific Reports.
Christopher Hebda et al., (2022) published "Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and a possible glacial refugium on northern Vancouver Island, Canada: Evidence for the viability of early human settlement on the northwest coast of North America" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Brian Wygal et al., (2022) published "Archaeological Recovery of Late Pleistocene Hair and Environmental DNA from Interior Alaska" in Environmental Archaeology.
Shouliang Huo et al., (2022) published "Century-Long Homogenization of Algal Communities Is Accelerated by Nutrient Enrichment and Climate Warming in Lakes and Reservoirs of the North Temperate Zone" in Environmental Science & Technology.
Maria Cuenca-Cambronero et al., (2022) published "An integrative paleolimnological approach for studying evolutionary processes" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Preprints
Frederik Seersholm (2022) made the preprint "New insights into 4,000 years of resource economy across Greenland using ancient DNA" available at bioRxiv.
New Positions
PhD position "Antarctic krill sedaDNA". At Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia, with Linda Armbrecht. The application deadline is the 7th of March 2022.
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.