Summary
Dear sedaDNA enthusiasts,
Good afternoon, the time has come for the September newsletter! I hope you have had an enjoyable summer. August has been a productive month in terms of 7 new papers, 4 preprints and one new post doc position.
We hope that you have a nice September,
The organising board
New papers
Vikki Lowe et al., (2025) published "Radiolarian and Phaeodarian high-rank assemblage change through time in the Scotia Sea: A paleo-genomics approach (IODP Exp. 382)" in Marine Micropaleontology.
Mathilde Bourreau et al., (2025) published "Comparison of sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) extraction and shotgun metagenomic library preparation techniques" also in Marine Micropaleontology.
Toni de-Dois et al., (2025) published "Bone adhered sediments as a source of target and environmental DNA and proteins" in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Josefine Friederike Weiß et al., (2025) published "Carbon drawdown by algal blooms during Antarctic Cold Reversal from sedimentary ancient DNA" in Nature Geoscience.
Jing Wang et al., (2025) published "Different responses of cyanobacterial communities to climate change and anthropogenic activities revealed by the 500-year sedimentary record of Lake Daihai" in Anthropocene.
Samual J. Walker et al., (2025) published "A 75,000-y-old Scandinavian Arctic cave deposit reveals past faunal diversity and paleoenvironment" in PNAS.
Jacob T. H. Anderson et al., (2025) published "Characterizing Microbial Communities in >7000- and >180,000-Year-Old Antarctic Permafrost Using a Low-Biomass Decontamination Protocol" in Astrobiology.
Preprints
Merlin Szymański et al., (2025) submitted the preprint "quick analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA using quicksand" available on BioRxiv.
Hasitha Nethupul et al., (2025) submitted the preprint "Marine eukaryote community responses to the climate and oceanographic changes in Storfjordrenna (southern Svalbard) over the past ⁓14.0 kyr BP: Insights from sedimentary ancient DNA analysis " available on EGUsphere.
Zhaojia Liu et al., (2025) submitted the preprint " Foraminiferal environmental DNA reveals late Holocene sea-level changes " available on BioRxiv.
Tristan Cordier et al., (2025) submitted the preprint "Benchmarking beta-diversity measures and transfer functions for sedimentary ancient DNA " available on BioRxiv.
New Positions
A 33 month postdoc position in sedimentary ancient DNA applied to palaeoecology at the University of Adelaide is welcoming applications.
The Research Associate will (a) construct and analyse a DNA reference database for the native flora of Kangaroo Island, South Australia; and (b) analyse ancient DNA from sediments on Kangaroo Island to develop novel records of vegetation change over the last 10,000 years. The project will investigate the interplay between climate, fire, vegetation and people, involving collaboration with colleagues and students working on sedimentology, geochronology, palynology, isotopes and organic geochemistry. As part of this team, the Research Associate will contribute to fieldwork and sediment analysis, student supervision, and work towards synthesising the project outcomes to inform sustainable fire management and biodiversity conservation both on Kangaroo Island and across south-eastern Australia.
Application deadline is the 22 September 2025. If you'd like more information, please contact Associate Professor Jonathan Tyler.
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