April 2022 Newsletter
March has been a productive month in our sedDNA world! Among good news, Kevin Nota published his PhD thesis on "Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from modern and ancient plant DNA". The society mailing list was extensively used by members to share informations and discuss methodological questions and we are very satisfied about that. Literature surveys have been freshly updated on Google Scholar, ResearchGate and the shared Excell file. Finally, many job positions have been published and were shared within the network of the sedaDNA scientific society.
April society seminar
The PaleoEcoGen & sedaDNA Society seminar will be provided by inited speaker Allison Stegner (Stanford University, USA), giving the talk entitled "Tracking abrupt ecological change in the Quaternary fossil record". The seminar will be on April 21th 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 and via the mailing list of the sedaDNA scientific society
New papers
Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring et al., (2022) published "Sedimentary DNA identifies modern and past macrophyte diversity and its environmental drivers in high-latitude and high-elevation lakes in Siberia and China" in Limnology & Oceanography.
Shouliang Huo et al., (2022) published "Temperature and precipitation dominates millennium changes of eukaryotic algal communities in Lake Yamzhog Yumco, Southern Tibetan Plateau" in Science of The Total Environment.
Sten Anslan et al., (2022) published "Compatibility of Diatom Valve Records With Sedimentary Ancient DNA Amplicon Data: A Case Study in a Brackish, Alkaline Tibetan Lake" in Frontiers in Earth Science.
Elena Zavala et al., (2022) published "Quantifying and reducing cross-contamination in single- and multiplex hybridization capture of ancient DNA" in Molecular Ecology Resources.
Anan Ibrahim et al., (2022) published "Vegetation changes over the last centuries in the Lower Lake Constance region reconstructed from sediment‐core environmental DNA" in Environmental DNA.
Julia Short et al., (2022) published "Using palaeolimnology to guide rehabilitation of a culturally significant lake in New Zealand" in Aquatic Conservation.
Kevin Nota et al., (2022) published "Norway spruce postglacial recolonization of Fennoscandia" in Nature Communications.
Mattia Greco et al., (2022) published "Environmental RNA outperforms eDNA metabarcoding in assessing impact of marine pollution: A chromium-spiked mesocosm test" in Chemosphere.