My #DIYNAFLUOR presentation slides from the recent #seDNA2025 conference are now available for download.
Check them out if you want a quick overview of where and how the DIYNAFLUOR could be used to QC Nanopore library preps in low-resource settings! 🧪🧬🦕
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And that's a wrap for the 2nd Southern eDNA society eDNA conference hashtag#seDNA2025!! Some of my takeaways: - Being still such a relatively 'young' field & community, talks are generally very open. In my previous plant genomics life talks were always 'closed' and about recent and not-so-recent papers that I usually had read anyways. Almost every talk I've seen at seDNA2025 started with 'here's some preliminary data I just got'. More of that!! - There are *very* few computational people in this community. Being a relatively young technology, eDNA is mostly being used to answer the questions that ecologists have who usually focus on a single or few species in a restricted locations. You don't need HPC for that. Bringing in more computational people will allow us to answer ecosystem-wide questions! I found Ayşe Haruka Oshima Açıkbaş's talk the best example of what is possible: She re-analysed thousands of ANEMONE ASVs to find range shifts in dozens of Japanese species due to climate change and tropicalisation. Efforts such as the amazing FAIRe project by Miwa Takahashi will enable us to ramp up these large-scale eDNA data comparison efforts: can't wait to see what the 2027 eDNA conference will bring once we put all this data together. - It fills me with pride to see results and figures I've made pop up in other people's eDNA talks as use-case examples. None of that is 'classically' published (so far) but the data is still getting out there into the research community. I love that my work is having an impact. - I'm very proud of colleagues, friends, and partners for their great presentations, Anya Kardailsky on CRISPR for eDNA, Dr Shannon Corrigan updating us on the Ocean Genomes project, Laura Missen summarising the huge efforts to automate eDNA sequencing workflows, and Georgia Nester talking about early results from her most recent deep sea expeditions. You all did amazing! - We're getting closer to being able to count fish and biomass via eDNA. Especially t…
Wrote up my thoughts on the #seDNA2025 conference over on linkedin - doesn't fit here, so here's a screenshot and a link www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#SeDNA2025 closing panel, MCd by Chris Meyer
Michael Marnane, @manpreetkdhami.bsky.social, @digleeson.bsky.social, & Olly Berry
Aus/NZ don't yet have a "national eDNA strategy" but the real game changer for our region is that we have a great collaborative culture (e.g., @sednasociety.bsky.social!)
Wrapping up the final science session at #SeDNA2025, Chris Meyer from the Smithsonian shares the US's National Aquatic #eDNA Strategy
Goals: Co-ordinate ➡️ Build ➡️ Apply
"We need to be more efficient and effective with the resources we have"
Who could ask for a better #panel of people to #strategize an #eDNA #world?
Michael Marnane, Manpreet Dahmi, Dianne Gleeson, Olly Berry, and Chris Meyers
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Chris Meyer from the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social discusses the national strategy to implement #eDNA methods the USA during the closing keynote of #SeDNA2025
In summary: Coordinate, Build, Apply
Chris Meyer from the #Smithsonian #Institute talks about the USA’s #National #eDNA #strategy #SeDNA2025
Charlotte Armstrong is monitoring tree microbiomes using #eDNA and finds temporal and spatial stability
#SeDNA2025
Lorraine Joyce Del Rosario joins us from the Philippines to talk about biological invasions in ports. A big issue for an island nation in the centre of marine biodiversity! #SeDNA2025
Paul Nevill presenting on behalf of Josh Kestel - polinator #eDNA sampling from flowers has its challenges but further development may produce a useful tool
#SeDNA2025
Claire Wellington talks about SWASP, the award-winning #eDNA port biosecurity program in Western Australia
#SeDNA2025
Adam Canning at TropWater JCU is characterising microbial 🦠 communities to assess success of restoration efforts
#SeDNA2025
@maartendb.bsky.social suggests a #lab #effect (commercial lab providers may show different results) when every lab does their own thing, but we still see the same #ecological #patterns. #SeDNA2025
Porntep Punnarak is characterising microbial communities in water and sediment around petroleum drilling platforms.
#SeDNA2025
#eDNA needs to explain that we NEED #taxonomists, especially when it comes to #national #reference #databases. Jenny Giles chats about #Aussie #sequencing #campaigns #SeDNA2025
Jenny Giles, director of Australia's National Biodiversity DNA Library, provides an update on this very ambitious project to develop curated complete reference libraries
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@shaunwilkinson.bsky.social advocates to #eDNA sample wide and deep!! He’s creating a #regional #eDNA #alert #system #SeDNA2025
Shaun's advice: Go wide, then go deep
Automatically scanning public #eDNA data for pest can help with early detection and intervention
#SeDNA2025
Roller swabbing can pick up localised #eDNA but how the heck do you get it off the roller?
PhD student Austin Guthrie recommends roller trimming and automated extraction.
#SeDNA2025
Josh Newton found active air sampling and spiderwebs are efficient #eDNA samplers
Collecting multiple substrates will increase species detection!
#SeDNA2025
Andrew Cridge from Scion is using light traps and #airDNA to monitor for biosecurity monitoring
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Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social is taking sediment cores containing "orthinogenic" (🐧 💩) soil to track populations through time and space!
#SeDNA2025
Ayla Murray is exploring the Arctic using #eDNA and has found new indicator species and species assemblages!
#SeDNA2025
Georgia Nester from @minderoo.bsky.social shared her research advancing and improving deep-sea #eDNA methods for conservation
#SeDNA2025
Our president, Anastasja Zaiko, starts the first AGM of the Southern #eDNA Society.
We're proud to be where we are and are glad to have such a great membership base already!
#SeDNA2025
The amazing Wai Tuwhera o te Taiao program showcases how community-led #eDNA projects can play an important role in understanding our environment
#SeDNA2025
Taylor Ely shows that #eDNA for #fish #communities reflects tissue #haplotypes for #multiple #species at the same time! And now we can see #significant #breaks in our #population #patterns. #SeDNA2025
Michael Marnane provides insights in the perspective of energy industry uses of #eDNA
Rigorous data that stands up to legal and regulatory scrutiny is still a challenge for many eDNA methods!
#SeDNA2025
