Effective #biodiversity 🐟 🐠 🤝 policy making depends on #comparable and #generalisable data. We demonstrate how #eDNA 🧬 is empowering 💪 🌍 🌐 global biodiversity analyses. 1/8
Florian Leese
@leeselab.bsky.social
Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen 🇪🇺🇩🇪 tweeting mostly about the work we do in our Aquatic Ecosystem Research Group. A lot of DNA / eDNA & popgen stuff on streams & automated biodiversity monitoring approaches.
TaxonTableTools2 is out! 🎉 A user-friendly interface to explore taxonomic tables, run analyses, & create publication-ready visualizations. Its mission: make (e)DNA metabarcoding faster, easier & more accessible 🧬 shorturl.at/3p89m @tillmacher.bsky.social @leeselab.bsky.social
GitHub - TillMacher/TaxonTableTools2: TaxonTableTools - A comprehensive, platform-independent graphical user interface software to explore and visualise DNA metabarcoding data
TaxonTableTools - A comprehensive, platform-independent graphical user interface software to explore and visualise DNA metabarcoding data - TillMacher/TaxonTableTools2
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We’ve kicked off the #eDNA #Metabarcoding workshop with @leeselab.bsky.social , @dominikbuchner.bsky.social , @tillmacher.bsky.social, and a highly international group of attendees working on a variety of exciting projects. Looking forward to a fun and productive week of learning! 🎉
🎉Our 2025 Editor's Choice award goes to: "Surface swabs outperform most traditional honeybee (Apis mellifera) hive samples for recovery of eDNA and eRNA" by Erin Hill, Liz Milla, Francisco Encinas-Viso, James O'Dwyer, Ben Gooden, Mariana Hopper, John Roberts. 🔗 mbmg.pensoft.net/news/1075
MBMG's 2025 Editor's Choice Award
For a third year in a row, Metabarcoding & Genomics has selected its winner for the Editor’s Choice 2025 award.The winning article is: “Surface swabs outperform most traditional honeyb...
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New study on the spatial dimension of multiple stressors. Gemma Burgazzi (iDiv) did a great job in running this mesocosm experiment. Effects of single stressors cascaded along the network, with stronger downstream effects. Thanks to all contributors! @leeselab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
In massive #collaborative #effort, we assembled published & unpublished #fish 🐟 #eDNA 🧬 metabarcoding datasets, covering ~2000 sampling sites/>100 river systems globally. 🐟 🐠 🐡 🌐 🌍 Now results out in 2 #parallel #preprints @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social #aquatic #biodiversity #meta-analysis 1/6🧵
Every year a highlight & intense period: Our molecular ecology module! We train advanced Master students on how to apply DNA & #eDNA #metabarcoding to assess riverine #biodiversity. Long #Day1 today as we sampled until 19:30. Motivation: 10/10. Tomorrow: to the lab! @unidue.bsky.social @sgn.one
New database on thermal tolerance on freshwater invertebrates and fish - major effort by Helena Bayat and many collaborators. Freely available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
There is funding for early career scientists to attend!
Florian Leese@leeselab.bsky.social · 11mo ago15th Water Research Horizon Conference of the #WaterScienceAlliance will take place @ruhr-uni-bochum.de 29/30 September. Focus: #urban water bodies / #watercycle Time for inter- & transdisciplinary discussions. Also: Award ceremony of new junior #research group water-research-horizon.de/wrhc.html RT
15th Water Research Horizon Conference of the #WaterScienceAlliance will take place @ruhr-uni-bochum.de 29/30 September. Focus: #urban water bodies / #watercycle Time for inter- & transdisciplinary discussions. Also: Award ceremony of new junior #research group water-research-horizon.de/wrhc.html RT
By comparing three strategies for local bioassessments in streams using environmental DNA and RNA metabarcoding, researchers find the most effective strategy is to briefly incubate collected organisms in water then analyse the enriched eDNA. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...
Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social. Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Wahl zum Wissensbuch des Jahres 2025 Ich freue mich sehr, dass unser Buch „Von Angesicht zu Angesicht“ dabei ist! Ihr könnt uns sowie unsere Arbeit, mit der wir für biologische Vielfalt begeistern, mit eurer Stimme in der Kategorie „Ästhetik“ unterstützen: www.konradin-service.de/umfrage/inde...
It’s happening again! Our @crc-resist.bsky.social team from @unidue.bsky.social is in Hesse to prepare the next large #ExStream experiment. Stay tuned. #freshwater #biodiversity #multiplestressors
And it’s a wrap! Thx to all participants - and the instructor colleagues, and the fantastic @physaliacourses.bsky.social team. How good you bring people together through organizing these courses. ☀️🙏
Physalia-courses@ONLINE@physaliacourses.bsky.social · last yr.🚀 A big thank you to all participants and instructors of our eDNA Metabarcoding course! 🙌 We explored amazing user-friendly tools like BolDigger, Aspcale, and TaxonTable, had a great intro to @nanoporetech.com data, and wrapped up with an inspiring open discussion full of ideas and projects.
We’re happy to announce Dr. Lennard Stach!! 🥳🥳 Well done Lennard for a brilliant defense and thesis!! We will miss you! Finally, thank you @leeselab.bsky.social for sitting in the thesis committee! 🫶
🎉 We’re thrilled to kick off the Eukaryotic "eDNA" Metabarcoding workshop with @leeselab.bsky.social @dominikbuchner.bsky.social , @tillmacher.bsky.social , @shump.bsky.social & an amazing group of participants joining us from across the globe—from Australia to Peru, from USA & Canada to Europe! 🌍🧬💻
Our team @unidue.bsky.social turned 🔟 today & I found myself in a spontaneous celebration event. Really happy & grateful to work here with such a great bunch of talented & nice people - connected to our collaborators around the 🌎. Life could be worse. Weiter geht‘s. ☀️Maybe more lab work next 🔟 ?
Very good to see our @pensoft.net journal @mbmg.pensoft.net continues to receive good CiteScores and also now the first #ImpactFactor with a good value of 3.1 ☀️ While I personally don’t care much about these metrics I know they are really relevant for many institutions. Thus: very happy about this!
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics@mbmg.pensoft.net · last yr.A new Scopus CiteScore for Metabarcoding and Metagenomics. mbmg.pensoft.net/news/884
🙏 And just as an addition: don‘t use these primers for bulk sample metabarcoding. There others are ways better (we recommend fwhF2/fwhR2n as a good solution; further solutions like BF2/BR3 or mlCOI with dgHCO exist)
eDNAqua-Plan Project@ednaquaplan.bsky.social · last yr.Take a deep dive into this article by @leeselab.bsky.social focusing on new primers for #eDNA metabarcoding, proving that they significantly boost detection of benthic invertebrates in freshwater. Targeting the right sequences can overcome nontarget amplification 👉 bit.ly/4dC2rlT #science #water
Immer ein Highlight: die #DGL Jahrestagung. 2025 laden wir zu einer Special Session ein: „Genetischen Verfahren im biologischen Gewässermonitoring“ 🧬 👉 auf 🇩🇪&🇬🇧 Kommt vorbei, meldet euch an: www.dgl-jahrestagungen.de/phone/index.... #Vortrag #Poster #Tagung #Limnologie #omics #eDNA #Monitoring
Join us for the Eukaryotic Metabarcoding course w/ @leeselab.bsky.social @dominikbuchner.bsky.social shorturl.at/wRW4T Till & @shump.bsky.social Get hands-on experience analysing Illumina & @nanoporetech.com data & learn how to run metabarcoding pipelines from raw sequences to ecological insights
Eukaryotic metabarcoding
14-18 July 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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In our May issue: Perspective led by Florian Altermatt discussing how to bring aquatic eDNA collection and data management in line with the Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework. 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/4mv2h4W Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0uC
Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Aquatic eDNA-based technologies offer the potential for universal and standardized biodiversity monitoring. In this Perspective, Altermatt et al. discuss how these technologies can help to achiev...
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It has been a collective effort with a great contributions by Isabel Blasco-Costa, Alejandro Trujillo González & @leeselab.bsky.social. It is also related to our activities within the IMPACT project! Make sure to follow @impact-parasites.bsky.social and check out all other fascinating chapters! 🤩
🌍 Europe is facing an exceptionally dry spring in 2025: 37 out of 38 countries covered by the @EEA have been hit by drought. To help track this growing threat, we’ve launched a new interactive drought map 🗺️— updated monthly & based on near real-time data: water.europa.eu/freshwater/e...
Great News: Our book Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites has been published online open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @nicojsmit.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites
A unique open access collection on ecological and environmental parasitology in marine and freshwater. Covers climate change and parasite conservation.
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FAIR #eDNA data and transparent workflows are essential. Harmonisation should come after standardisation. International collaboration and partnership will drive progress #UKDNAWG25
