Environmental DNA

…assistant professor (adiunkt) in the Environmental DNA Laboratory of its Department of Paleoceanography. The role centres on analysing metagenomic and metabarcoding data from high-throughput sequencing, adapting algorithms and statistical methods to metabarcoding data for specific taxonomic groups such as foraminifera, building and curating barcoding and metabarcoding reference databases, maintaining the laboratory's bioinformatics tools, training team members in bioinformatics for environme

…Using existing environmental DNA samples, oceanographic data and passive acoustic data, the scholar will expand bioinformatic approaches for eDNA metabarcoding and qPCR datasets, quantify fish prey community composition, map predator-prey distributions against oceanographic variabl

David Lodge discusses environmental DNA as a tool for detecting invasive species and the challenges of translating ecological evidence into policy. The conversation follows invasive-carp detection in river water, scrutiny in legal proceedings, long-term crayfish observations, and the respective roles of researchers and decision-makers.