January 2024 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
We hope that everyone had a good and relaxing holiday season. We are looking forward to a productive and continued building and maintaining collaborations within the sedaDNA society. The student seminars series will continue, and soon a new general society seminar series will be launched.
Further, we would like to highlight that the book "Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments" edited by Eric Capo, Cécilia Barouillet, and John P. Smol was released at the very end of 2023. The book contains 13 chapters summarizing the state-of-the-art sedimentary DNA approaches to study past environmental changes, offers the first common workflow for SedaDNA processes and analyzes eight taxa for potential as paleo-indicators. See here the overview of the chapters. 
The full book is available here. This book dedicated to sedaDNA research is the 6th volume in the book series Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research.
As usual, papers published and pre-prints in the previous month are listed below.
New papers
Tyler J. Murchie et al., (2023) published "Permafrost microbial communities follow shifts in vegetation, soils, and megafauna extinctions in Late Pleistocene NW North America" in environmental DNA.
Amy C. Thorpe et al., (2023) published "Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long-term microscopy-based monitoring of the phytoplankton community" in Molecular Ecology Resources.
Yasuhide Nakamura et al., (2023) published "DNA metabarcoding focusing on the plankton community: an effective approach to reconstruct the paleo-environment" in Scientific Reports.
Simon Belle et al., (2024) published "Drivers and resilience of methane-derived carbon contribution to chironomid biomass in boreal lakes" in Aquatic Sciences.
Kaida Peng et al., (2024) published "Characterization of driving factors for the long-term succession of bloom-forming cyanobacterial genera in Lake Erhai, southwest China" in Journal of Environmental Management.
Haoyu Li et al., (2024) published "Sedimentary DNA reveals the link between microbial community dynamics and climate during the late last glaciation in the offshore region of the Zambezi River, Southwest Indian Ocean" in Science of The Total Environment.
Preprints
Darjan Gande (2023) made the preprint "Recovering short DNA fragments from minerals and marine sediments: a comparative study evaluating lysis and isolation approaches" available at BioRxiv
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.