September 2024 Newsletter
Dear sed-DNA enthusiasts,
September has started, and the summer holiday and field season has finished for most. Before the summer, Eric Capo and I decided that it was time for us to step down to make space for a new generation of young researchers to take over and lead the society forward. The advisory board elected Dr Maïlys Picard as the new coordinator for the society and started a few days ago, on the 1st of September. From next month onwards, she will also take over the newsletter. We believe she will do a great job, and make the society even better.
This is, therefore, the last newsletter you will receive from me. It has been a pleasure being the communicator of the society, and I feel very fortunate to have crossed paths with Eric when he was setting up the society. I will continue to be part of the society on the advisory board, and off-course looking forward to meeting and interacting with many of you in society meetings and conferences in the coming years.
New papers
Victoria Oberreiter et al., (2024) published "Maximizing efficiency in sedimentary ancient DNA analysis: a novel extract pooling approach" in Scientific Reports.
Kai Wu et al., (2024) published " Application of plant DNA metabarcoding of lake sediments for monitoring vegetation compositions on the Tibetan Plateau" in Science China Earth Sciences.
Wenjia Li et al., (2024) published " Holocene lake response to glacier and catchment changes on the eastern Tibetan Plateau from quantitative conductivity reconstructions based on sedaDNA-derived macrophyte records" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Danielle Magann Grant et al., (2024) published " Sedimentary ancient DNA sequences reveal marine ecosystem shifts and indicator taxa for glacial-interglacial sea ice conditions" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Zulaykha Khurshid et al., (2024) published " Deciphering the Chronological Dynamics of Azolla invasion in Dal Lake, Srinagar: Insights from Sediment eDNA and 210Pb/137Cs Dating Techniques" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Diego Elihú Rivera Rosas et al., (2024) published " A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem" in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Preprints
Fiona Callahan(2024) made the preprint "Challenges in detecting ecological interactions using sedimentary ancient DNA data" available at BioRxiv
Lucas Elliott(2024) made the preprint "wholeskim: Utilizing genome skims for taxonomically annotating ancient DNA metagenomes " available at Authora
Zihao Huang(2024) made the preprint "eProbe: a capture probe design toolkit for genetic diversity reconstructions from ancient environmental DNA " available at BioRxiv
Wojciech Majewski(2024) made the preprint "Environmental Degradation and Recovery after Termination of Whaling in Sub-Antarctic Fjord, South Georgia " available at SSRN
Gianluca Grasso(2024) made the preprint "Ancient microbiomes as mirrored by DNA extracted from century-old herbarium plants and associated soil " available at Authora
Contact Maïlys Picard at mailys.picard@umu.se 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.