Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
We hope that everyone had a nice summer with successful fieldwork and relaxing holidays. Now that meteorological autumn has started, most of the social activities will be or have already been restarted. The student seminar series started again yesterday. The e-coffees will likely be resumed this month, the exact dates and times will be announced later. Further, the ‘Pacific seminar series’ led by Jamie Wood will run as the main society seminars for the coming months. It will provide members in Pacific region time zones the opportunity to present their research and watch seminars live during daytime hours. All members of the society, irrespective of where they are in the world, are welcome to join and watch. And, if anyone is interested in presenting as part of this series please contact Jamie at jamie.wood@adelaide.edu.au.
Finally, you might have noticed that the newsletter was sent with a new email address than you were used to before the summer break. This is because I have started a Postdoc with Benjamin Vernot at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. You can contact me now at my new mail address kevin_nota@eva.mpg.de.
September society seminar
More information on the seminar series will follow.
New papers
Amy Thorpe et al., (2022) published "Sedimentary DNA records long-term changes in a lake bacterial community in response to varying nutrient availability" in Environmental DNA.
Jérémy Courtin et al., (2022) published "Pleistocene glacial and interglacial ecosystems inferred from ancient DNA analyses of permafrost sediments from Batagay megaslump, East Siberia" in Environmental DNA.
Samuel Hudson et al., (2022) published "Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores" in Plos One.
Luise Schulte et al., (2022) published "Larix species range dynamics in Siberia since the Last Glacial captured from sedimentary ancient DNA" in Communications Biology.
Xingguo Han et al., (2022) published "Long-term preservation of biomolecules in lake sediments: potential importance of physical shielding by recalcitrant cell walls" in PNAS Nexus.
Claire Mary Lee et al., (2022) published "On the Use of Spores of Coprophilous Fungi Preserved in Sediments to Indicate Past Herbivore Presence" in Quaternary.
Georgia Thomson-Laing et al., (2022) published "Optimised protocol for the extraction of fish DNA from freshwater sediments" in Freshwater Biology.
Evelien Van de Vyver et al., (2022) published " Planktonic diatom communities in temperate South-Central Chilean lakes with a focus on Asterionella formosa and the genus Aulacoseira." in the Journal of Paleolimnology.
Viviane Slon et al., (2022) published " Extended longevity of DNA preservation in Levantine Paleolithic sediments, Sefunim Cave, Israel" in Scientific Reports.
Weihan Jia et al., (2022) published " Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals past ecosystem and biodiversity changes on the Tibetan Plateau: Overview and prospects" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Peter Andreas Seeber et al., (2022) published " Evaluation of lake sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding to assess fungal biodiversity in Arctic paleoecosystems" in Environmental DNA.
Peter Andreas Seeber and Laura Epp (2022) published " Evaluation of lake Environmental DNA and metagenomics of terrestrial mammals as keystone taxa of recent and past ecosystems" in Mammal Review.
Vilma Pérez et al., (2022) published " A Case Study for the Recovery of Authentic Microbial Ancient DNA from Soil Samples" in Microorganisms.
Xuexue Liu and Ludovic Orlando (2022) published " mapDATAge: a ShinyR package to chart ancient DNA data through space and time" in Bioinformatics.
Preprints
Ngoc-Loi Nguyen (2022) made the preprint "Ancient environmental genomics: An Introduction" available at Authorea.
New Positions
At Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UM) a position as Senior post-doctoral researcher is available within sedaDNA. The position has funding for three years initially with possibility of 1 or 2 years extension. Application deadline is 6th of September 2022. More information
The Arctic University Museum of Norway (UM) is advertising 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 16th of September 2022. More information
Contact me at kevin_nota@eva.mpg.de 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.