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🎥 The SeDNAs ECR Workshop recording is now available! Learn some tips on how to write stronger abstracts, deliver engaging presentations, and design effective posters. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/L8YmxKAd6OI 🌏 ednaconference.com.au

SeDNAs Webinar 2026 - 4 - ECR Conference Prep Webinar

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The 3rd AUS & NZ eDNA Conference is currently being organised & we want to tailor the ECR sessions, workshops, & activities to best support the needs of our ECR's Please fill out this survey to help us plan these: tinyurl.com/5c67krkf We look forward to seeing you at the conference next year

#Postdoc #Position opening up in my group: Developing Analytical #Pipelines and #Analyses to Survey #Invasive Alien #Species in Aquatic Systems using #eDNA (2 years) 🧬 📈 ❗ 🦐 🦀 🐠 🌍🌐❗ #JobOpening 🎯 apply.refline.ch/673277/1364/... 📍 Apply now & thx for spreading the word (deadline Aug 14th)

🌍⚖️ Day 5 of the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool tackled ethics and governance in #eDNA research. From the CBD and Nagoya Protocol to the debate on digital sequence information as a genetic resource, participants explored challenges for biodiversity science, equity and data sharing.

🧪🧬 Day 4 of the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool started with a lab session on #qPCR! Participants gained hands-on experience with assay design, amplification, controls and data interpretation, learning how qPCR supports sensitive #eDNA detection for biodiversity #monitoring and #biosecurity.

🧬📜 eDNA is moving from research to policy! At the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool, @teuneverts.bsky.social explored how #eDNA can support early detection, rapid response and implementation of EU invasion policies, including Reg. 1143/2014, while highlighting challenges in standardization and acceptance.

Working with mitogenomes for eDNA, phylogenetics, etc, but not sure what's available on GenBank? Maybe your study group has weird mitogenome features? Come explore with with my new GenBankMitoReview tool! github.com/dmacguigan/G... #DNA #bioinformatics #eDNA #GenBank

💻🧬 Day 4 of the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool continued with #bioinformatics! From HTS data processing and ASVs to the MJOLNIR pipeline, participants explored how millions of DNA reads become biodiversity data for #eDNA monitoring, biosecurity and invasion science. #Metabarcoding

Lecture spotlight: Introduction to eDNA and invasive species by Anastasija Zaiko 🧬🌍 From invasion pathways and impacts to biosecurity, early detection and the challenges of false positives/negatives, with lively discussions throughout. #GuardIAS #SummerSchool #eDNA #IAS

Stelios Katsanevakis@skatsanevakis.bsky.social · last mo.

The #GuardIAS #SummerSchool has officially begun in Bodø, Norway! 🇳🇴🌍 Over this week, participants will explore #eDNA, aquatic #IAS, #biosecurity, #monitoring and #innovation through lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. 🧬🐟

🧬🌊 Designing #eDNA surveillance starts with a clear question. At the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool, we explored sampling strategies, active vs passive methods, scalable marine solutions, natural samplers, and how eDNA supports early detection and eradication of #IAS.

🧬 Day 2 of the #GuardIAS #SummerSchool continued in the lab with hands-on #ddPCR training. Participants analysed samples from an experimental setup, gaining experience with a powerful tool for sensitive #eDNA detection and aquatic biosecurity.

Excited to contribute to this project on intertidal #eDNA monitoring, field work, and mitogenome assembly. Awesome to see Shannon Brown, our lab manager, in her element :)

Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · last mo.

🐟🔬 Researchers from Scripps Oceanography & partner organizations have launched the first major effort to genetically catalog marine #biodiversity along the California coast, starting in San Diego. Learn more about the statewide project, supported by @opc-california.bsky.social ⬇️

The potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA toward functional ecological monitoring ->Nature | More on "eDNA methylation environmental biodiversity monitoring" at BigEarthData.ai | #Biodiversity #Edna #Ecological

The potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA toward functional ecological monitoring

Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to genetic material obtained directly from environmental samples, such as water, soil, and air1,2,3. Organisms continuously release eDNA into the environment, which accumulates in various forms4. eDNA may include free-floating DNA or intracellular, microbial DNA, or may originate from cellular debris shed, such as hair, feces and pollen5,6,7. Because eDNA may contain information about organisms inhabiting the environment, it has been utilized for monitoring biodiversity for nearly 20 years8. While the term eDNA may indicate a wide range of physical forms of DNA in the environment, we define eDNA as DNA derived from macrobial organisms such as fish and tetrapods in this perspective and exclude microbial DNA to clarify the scope. Also, our definition includes DNA obtained not only from environmental substrates such as water and soil but also from other biological materials found in the environment, including feces and shed tissues. We focus primarily on aquatic eDNA because most empirical meth-eDNA studies to date have been conducted in aquatic systems. While airborne and soil-derived eDNA show promise, research in these areas remains limited. Furthermore, interpreting their methylation signals may be harder because of highly heterogeneous sources of DNA (particularly, soil eDNA) and the stronger effects...

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🧬 #eDNA sampling video publication 🎥 To make it easier for non-experts and #CitizenScientists to carry out eDNA sampling, we turned the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social sampling protocol into a video publication! Please spread and use widely! 😊 www.jove.com/v/70334/envi... @biodiversa.eu

📣 New Podcast! "Solved: How Modern Science and DNA Forensic Archaeology Explain History’s Greatest Mysteries" on @Spreaker #ancientengineering #ancienthistory #archaeology #digitalimaging #dnaanalysis #edna #evidencebased #forensichistory #georesults #historicalcoldcases #historicalmysteries

Solved: How Modern Science and DNA Forensic Archaeology Explain History’s Greatest Mysteries

Think Your History Book is 100% Correct? Think Again. Ever wonder why we’re still obsessed with the supernatural when the answers are right under our noses? From the murky depths of Loch Ness to the shallow grave of a long-lost king, the line between folklore and fact is being rewritten in real-time. In this episode, we dive deep into the "Death of the Paranormal" as modern science turns legendary ghosts into earthly explanations. We’re using Forensic Genetic Genealogy and eDNA analysis to solve the world’s most persistent "cold cases." If you've ever suspected that ancient aliens were just a cover for ancient human ingenuity, you’re in the right place. We dismantle history’s greatest hoaxes using the latest LiDAR archaeology and digital imaging to reveal that the truth is often stranger—and more thrilling—than the myth. Key Findings & Evidence-Based Insights: - The DNA Truth: How a simple cotton swab solved the 500-year-old mystery of Richard III. - Cryptid Reality: Why Environmental DNA (eDNA) results have finally closed the case on the Loch Ness Monster. - Engineering Geniuses: Using digital reconstruction to prove how humans moved the stones (without extraterrestrial help). - The Textbook Rewrite: Why breakthroughs in 2025-2026 mean 40% of what you learned in school is now outdated. Whether it's the Antarctica hidden structures or the Screaming Mummy’s medical diagnosis, we’re trading ghost stories for peer-reviewed mysteries. Stop chasing shadows and start finding answers. Join the hunt for truth—subscribe now and share this episode with someone who still believes in the "unsolvable"! #EvidenceBased #ForensicHistory #MysterySolved  

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New paper from the lab on #eDNA sampling strategies for air. Well done Nina Garrett #womeninStem 🧪 . Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces - Garrett - 2026 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces

The majority of species richness was detected using as little as four samplers in this enclosed space and the greater the number of sampling events, the fewer samplers were needed. eDNA also appeared...

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That time @minderoo.bsky.social used our #eDNA depth sampler to capture hundreds of data points for the world's largest marine database. 🧬 (Photo by Giacomo d'Orlando taken in Abrolhos Islands) oceandiagnostics.com/ocean-diagno...

Fun day sampling #eDNA with PhD student Amanda Potts for a biodiversity survey at the Cook’s Branch Conservancy, a 7,100-acre nature preserve in Montgomery County, Texas, managed by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation. 🧬

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is changing how we study ecosystems—allowing scientists to detect species from genetic traces left behind in water, soil, and air. New read from Science & Policy Exchange: sp-exchange.ca/environmenta... #SciComm #SciencePolicy #eDNA #Ecology #Biodiversity

Ottawa Science Policy Network@ottawascipolnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Environmental DNA is moving from scientific innovation to policy application. This new Science & Policy Exchange article explores what's next: sp-exchange.ca/environmenta... #SciencePolicy #eDNA #EvidenceBasedPolicy #Biodiversity

Join this week's #MBON #NetworkingFriday: POGO CEO, Sophie Seeyave, will moderate a session on Gulf #eDNA network. 📆 12 June 2026, 1:00 PM UTC ➡️https://www.aircentre.org/marine-biodiversity-networking-friday-the-gulf-edna-network-building-regional-connections-for-biodiversity-science-and-monitoring/

The deadline has been extended, due to high number of abstracts coming in, to June 12th! Are you working on #corals, #biodiversity, #restoration, #conservation, #ocean, #monitoring, #eDNA spaces and have questions on this? Let the organizing folks know or DM here. www.mtsociety.org/global-edna-...

Pedro Brandão-Dias F Pinto@pedrobd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Save the date for a Global #eDNA 🧬 conference! More details to come soon.

DNA reveals how far salmon are traveling, and it's farther than we had thought. Thanks @columbiainsight.bsky.social for highlighting our #eDNA collaboration with Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission detecting #salmon in remote headwaters. hubs.ly/Q04hPV5S0 #biodiversity #conservation #fisheries

Registration + abstract submissions are now open for the 2027 Southern eDNA Society Conference in Canberra! 🎉 ednaconference.com.au Theme: Scaling eDNA: From Method to Mainstream Join researchers, practitioners, industry & community partners shaping the future of eDNA. #eDNA #SeDNAS2027

Don't miss our session on #eDNA auto samplers at #ASLOSIL26 on May 15th! Abstract Number: 10912 Session: SS053A Autonomous and In Situ eDNA Technologies. Scaling Molecular Biodiversity Observations in Aquatic Ecosystems Room Number/Location: 519B Date and Time: 15/5/2026 at 02:30 PM (Eastern Time)

In the context of #eDNA monitoring in Scotland I am just flagging this enthusiastic group who are meeting today and again in October. Connecting researchers and stakeholders to protect Scotland's freshwater Scottish Freshwater Group | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology www.ceh.ac.uk/scottish-fre...

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Membership of the Scottish Freshwater Group (SFG) enables connections which serve the environment and people

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New paper out! Beyond #eDNA potential—this work a major collaborative effort and brings out several key lessons learned from applying #eDNA for monitoring diadromous fish-what works, what needs caution. @thefsbi.bsky.social #JFB onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @azti.bsky.social #SeaLamprey

Lessons learned from applying eDNA surveying to diadromous fish detection across the Northeast Atlantic region

Regular monitoring of diadromous fishes is critical to inform their management and conservation. Yet, the in situ data collection for these species is challenging due to their complex life cycle and ...

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New webinar! We've been glad to host eDNAtec on prior topics and now bring you "#eDNA in Practice: From Questions to Reliable Results" on 5/4. Select the right methods and sampling strategies, and understanding the strengths and limitations of different eDNA approaches. https://ow.ly/57P650YOxNP

New study finds that #eDNA - a powerful tool for monitoring #aquatic #biodiversity - is being held back by patchy #metadata and poor data standardisation. Authors identify key gaps and call for FAIR, CARE & TRUST principles to unite the field. Full study: doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... @embrc.eu

Navigating the European aquatic eDNA landscape: Opportunities for metadata standardisation and data mobilisation

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a transformative tool for monitoring aquatic biodiversity, offering a non-invasive and highly sensitive approach to detecting organisms across diverse ecosystem...

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Could ocean forensics be the key to conservation? Amalyah Hart investigates. Read it here: particle.scitech.org.au/earth-water/... #biodiversity #eDNA #conservation #ocean

Can eDNA help conserve Australia’s oceans? | Particle

Researchers hope to harness eDNA to protect vulnerable ocean species.

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