From 17-21 January 2022 the UK DNA Working Group (a part of UKEOF) held a series of webinars concerning eDNA. Daily seminars involving both UK and international speakers covered a range of topics in eDNA research and applications, from regulatory end users of eDNA tools, to academic researchers and commercial companies researching and applying eDNA techniques.
The five recordings are now available to view online (YouTube).
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Willie Duncan (Scottish Environmental Protection Agency) |
The Scottish DNA Hub, Developing Habitat Scale DNA monitoring |
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Judy England (Environment Agency) |
Ecological Challenges |
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Debbie Leatherland (Natural England) |
Natural England’s evidence needs for Protected Site and Agri-environment Monitoring |
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Katie Clark (Natural England) |
Priorities, progress and plans - Defra Centre of Excellence for DNA based methods |
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Phil Davison (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) and Iveta Matejusova (Marine Scotland Science) |
DNA based applications in marine ecosystems |
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Mike Bunce (ESR, New Zealand) |
Community Engagement, Biobanks, Accessible Data and Deterrents – how important are these elements in a rapidly developing eDNA landscape? |
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Michael Stat (Univ. of Newcastle, Australia) |
Working with industry to characterise biodiversity and survey for invasive species using eDNA |
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Tristan Cordier (NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research) |
Harnessing environmental genomics and machine learning for routine biomonitoring |
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Rosetta Blackman (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland) |
Spatial-temporal patterns of biodiversity and food-web characteristics across a river catchment using eDNA |
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Rachel Meyer (Univ. of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
Sustaining a citizen science eDNA program in California: challenges and opportunities |
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Sarah Bourlat (Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring, LIB/ZFMK, Bonn, Germany) |
Challenges and possibilities for the assessment of terrestrial arthropod communities using DNA-based methods |
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Louis Bernatchez (Univ. Laval, Canada) |
Toward eDNA analysis as a globally accepted approach for fish management and conservation |
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Ryan Kelly (Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA) |
Making eDNA Boring |
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Melania Cristescu (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) |
Can eRNA pick up where eDNA fails? |
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Masaki Miya (Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan) - recording |
Environmental DNA metabarcoding: A novel method for biodiversity monitoring of marine fish communities |
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Sebastian Mynott (Applied Genomics) |
Advancing eDNA-based survey technologies for improved biodiversity monitoring |
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Alice Valentini (Spygen) |
SPYGEN: 10 years of expertise in eDNA for biodiversity monitoring |
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Helen Rees (ADAS)- recording |
Development of eDNA assays for rare and invasive freshwater snails |
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Kat Bruce (NatureMetrics) |
Scaling up: Using eDNA to inform management and conservation of nature around the world |
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Florian Leese (Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) |
Back to the future: National roadmaps (hopefully) pave the way for harmonised international biomonitoring 2.0 |
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Kristy Deiner (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) |
Measuring global biodiversity through understanding biogeochemical cycling of environmental DNA in lakes |
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Naiara Rodriguez (AZTI, Spain) |
From estuaries to the deep ocean: diving into the potential of eDNA for assessing fish diversity |
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Wrap up talk (Si Creer, Bangor University, UK) |
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Q&A with all speakers |
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