June 2022 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
For many members of the society, the field season is soon upon us as well as the summer holidays. Some of our activities such as the PhD seminar series, and E-coffees are taking a summer break until September. More information about the restart of these activities will follow in August.
Again, many papers have been published this month, and well as new PhD positions and an Associate professor position are advertised.
June society seminar
There is no seminar scheduled for the month of June.
New papers
Joanna Gauthier et al., (2022) published "Sedimentary DNA of a human-impacted lake in Western Canada (Cultus Lake) reveals changes in micro-eukaryotic diversity over the past ~200 years " in Environmental DNA.
Caitlin Selway et al., (2022) published "An Outlook for the Acquisition of Marine Sedimentary Ancient DNA (sedaDNA) From North Atlantic Ocean Archive Material " in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
Cécilia Barouillet et al., (2022) published "Paleoreconstructions of ciliate communities reveal long-term ecological changes in temperate lakes " in Scientific Reports.
Olga Iwańska et al., (2022) published "Lake microbiome and trophy fluctuations of the ancient hemp rettery" in Scientific Reports.
Láuren de Souza et al., (2022) published "Diversity, distribution and ecology of fungal communities present in Antarctic lake sediments uncovered by DNA metabarcoding " in Scientific Reports.
Yudai Segawa et al., (2022) published "Reconstruction of the eukaryotic communities in Beppu Bay over the past 50 years based on sedimentary DNA barcoding " in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.
Preprints
Ramesh Glückler (2022) made the preprint "Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies" available at EGUsphere.
New Positions
At the Arctic University Museum of Norway (UM) a position as Researcher is available within Northern Terrestrial Ancient DNA. The position has funding for three years, with the possibility of an extended funding period. The position is affiliated to the newly established Norwegian Centre for Arctic Ecosystem Genomics (ArcEcoGen) and will be part of the terrestrial working group. Application deadline 4th June 2022. More information
The DTU Health Tech is looking for a qualified candidate for a PhD position in Bioinformatics. In this position, you will develop algorithms and computational methods to deal with the analysis of large datasets from modern and ancient sources. More specifically, these algorithms will be aimed at analyzing human genomes from sedimentary DNA. The bioinformatics section of DTU Health Tech performs research in different areas including machine learning, cancer genomics and population genomics. Application deadline 14th of June 2022. More information
The Arctic University Museum of Norway (UM) is announcing an Associate professor position in archaeogenomicsis. This is full-time fully funded permanent post that is effectively research only (with some curatorial responsibility and teaching possible) with a good rate of pay and excellent welfare and working conditions.Application deadline 22nd of June 2022. More information
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.