May 2023 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
Time flies by and we're already in the month of May. We are thrilled to highlight that the first SedDNA Meeting is just around the corner! From the 6th to the 9th of June 2023, we'll be gathering in Potsdam, Germany. If you haven't registered yet, don't worry, there's still time. However, please note that registration closes today. More than 100 people have already signed up, and we're looking forward to having you join us. You can register by clicking here.
We would like to remind everyone that it's now easier than ever to share your latest research with the society. You can simply fill out an easy Google form to notify us of any new papers, preprints, PhD theses, or other publications you would like to share in our newsletter. Not only will your publications be highlighted in the newsletter, but they will also be added to our society's literature archive, which you can access here. We welcome all forms of research and look forward to sharing your work with the community. We are grateful to everyone who has already used the form. We only added papers to the newsletter that were published in the previous month.
We're excited to continue our series of society e-coffees, and we invite everyone to join us for our next gathering on Wednesday, May 10th, at 9:00 AM (UTC+1). We'll also be hosting another e-coffee on Wednesday, May 24th. Come and enjoy some digital coffee while engaging in social chats in Gathertown. To ensure you don't miss out, we'll be sending calendar invites a few days before the event via our email list and society Slack channel. All are welcome, and we look forward to seeing you there!
New papers
Charline Giguet-Covex et al., (2023) published "Long-term trajectories of mountain agro-ecosystems in the North-Western Alps" in Regional Environmental Change.
Kai Nakane et al., (2023) published "Sedimentary DNA can reveal the past population dynamics of a pelagic copepod" in Freshwater Biology.
Xiaofen Wu et al., (2023) published "Microbial life in 25-m-deep boreholes in ancient permafrost illuminated by metagenomics" in Environmental Microbiome.
Alberto Vassallo et al., (2023) published "Novel Sources of Biodiversity and Biomolecules from Bacteria Isolated from a High Middle Ages Soil Sample in Palermo (Sicily, Italy)" in Microbiology Spectrum.
Preprints
Moritz Muschick (2023) made the preprint "Ancient DNA is preserved in fish fossils from tropical lake sediments" available at Authorea.
Nicola Alexandra Vogel (2023) made the preprint "euka: Robust detection of eukaryotic taxa from modern and ancient environmental DNA using pangenomic reference graphs" available at BioRxiv.
New Positions
A postdoc for 2 years is availible at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen to study functional ecosystem changes in the marine Arctic with sedimentary ancient DNA. Find out more about the project and application details here: Two-year postdoc position in marine sedimentary ancient DNA (hr-manager.net)
The application deadline is 31st of May 2023 and the start date is 1st of November 2023.
Contact me at kevin_nota@eva.mpg.de or you want to announce something to the society, or if you have a recent paper that you would like to advertise in the newsletter.