November 2023 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
Autumn has taken its hold, and we are slowly moving towards the winter in the northern hemisphere. Like last month, there are no announcements from the society. We are still hosting every month early career seminars with high attendance in different time zones. If you are new to the society, or a PI with new students, or want to get more involved as an early career researcher you can add your name to the list here. We are still working on bringing back the general seminar series in a different format. We will send more information about this later this year.
Please let me know if I missed a paper or preprint, or simply paste a link or DOI here
New papers
Mark Louie D. Lopez et al., (2023) published "qPCR-based eDNA workflow for humic-rich lake sediments: Combined use of sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) and Indigenous Knowledge in reconstructing historical fish records" in Ecological Indicators.
Vilma Pérez et al., (2023) published "Using sedimentary prokaryotic communities to assess historical changes in the Gippsland Lakes" in Freshwater Biology.
Preprints
Victoria Oberreiter (2023) made the preprint "Maximizing Efficiency in SedaDNA Analysis: A Novel Extract Pooling Approach" available at BioRxiv.
Samuel M. Hudson (2023) made the preprint "Early Neolithic forest farming at Seven Springs, Martlesham, Suffolk inferred from sedaDNA and pollen" available at BioRxiv.
New positions
The aDNA group at the Natural History Museum London and Aleks Pluskowski from the University of Reading are recruiting a 3 year postdoc. The position will be to study the impact of urbanism on biodiversity and ecosystem health, from Roman to Medieval times in London, using sedaDNA.
applications deadline: 6th Nov 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.