New #AquaticFungi to start your Wednesday! Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater. Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social

Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA

Molecular analyses of soil and water commonly reveal large proportions of fungal taxa that cannot be assigned to any taxonomic or functional groups. Some of these so-called dark taxa have been encoded...

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At the BMD High-throughput Biodiversity Monitoring workshop, participants joined a field excursion to Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac. @kristelpanksep.bsky.social and Kessy Abarenkov, together with Niels Raes, demonstrated eDNA sampling and camera trap deployment. #eDNA #BMDproject

eDNA workflow - from sampling to publication to improve biodiversity assessment. This week we had a workflow course at Laelatu Biology Station, see attached photos, held by @kristelpanksep.bsky.social and others. #eDNA #PlutoFGO #bioinformatics #GBIF #biodiversity #NATARC

At #ICAIS2026 in Belfast, MMC member @kristelpanksep.bsky.social joined the #GuardIAS #eDNA Workshop to discuss moving beyond presence/absence detection and the constraints of applied eDNA. The session ended with a collaborative SWOT analysis on managing aquatic invasive species.

Had the chance to talk about #environmentalDNA! I was on Kuku Raadio's show "Kuue samba taga" and shared how #eDNA samples are helping to solve nature's mysteries. Listen here: kuku.pleier.ee/podcast/kuue... #conservation #KukuRaadio #science

Floating Islands & Water Health at LAMPA Festival! 🌿 So inspiring to discuss BioFloat's impact on aquatic ecosystems. #BioFloat #LAMPAFestival #FloatingIslands

Our group photo ❤️. Big thanks to all participants for their contributions.

Great talk by Helen Agasild at #ICTC13. Gut content analysis of #zooplankton reveals different feeding preferences & widespread ingestion of toxin-producing and further transfer to fish #cyanobacteria. @ictc13.bsky.social #Zooplankton #Ecology #Limnology #foodweb #Chania #Crete

I big shipment of samples recently arrived to #FUNACTION Estonian partners 🇪🇪. DNA🧬 is being extracted and sequenced to assess seasonal dynamics of #aquaticfungi biodiversity in several regions in Europe. Stay tuned! 🍄💧 #funga #fungi #conservation @biodiversaplus.bsky.social

Mobility of ECRs between Partners labs is one example of #FUNACTION transnational added value. Ziming🇸🇪 and Pietro🇮🇹 visited our Estonian🇪🇪 team where they were trained and collaborated on sample preparation and #eDNA extraction. #aquaticfungi #conservation #biodiversity @biodiversaplus.bsky.social