Unifying the sedaDNA scientific community
- 1Umeå University, Chemistry, Umeå, Sweden (eric.capo@hotmail.fr)
- 2Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
Since the seminal paper in 1998 (Coolen and Overmann), sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become a powerful tool in paleoecology to reconstruct past changes in terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. Still, sedaDNA is an emerging tool and there is a need for calibrations and validations to ensure the reliability of sedaDNA as a proxy to reconstruct past biota. One way to pursue this goal is by unifying the sedaDNA scientific community. Here, we present a few initiatives taken over the last years to transmit information, augment our knowledge about best practices and method standardisation related to sedaDNA analysis and strengthen collaborations between research groups. Also, we discuss tools and ideas that could be used to increase the visibility of sedaDNA research by the scientific community. Finally, we would like to use this opportunity to discuss with the audience about new strategies to unify experts from different research fields - including paleoecology, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, molecular ecology, aquatic ecology, terrestrial ecology, microbial ecology - around the use of sedaDNA.
Eric Capo1,2, Inger G. Alsos3, Daniel Ariztegui4, Linda Armbrecht5, Ines Barrenechea6,4, Simon Belle2, Stefan Bertilsson2, Christian Bigler7, Richard Bindler7, Ida-Maria Blåhed7, Jessica Blois8, Chris Bowler9, Frederic Boyer10, Charlotte L. Clarke11, Eric Coissac10, Marco J. L. Coolen12, Tristan Cordier13, Sarah E. Crump14, Stijn de Schepper13, Hideyuki Doi15, Isabelle Domaizon16,17, Katharina Dulias18, Marie E. Edwards19,20, Md. Akhtar‐E Ekram12, Laura S. Epp21, Rosie Everett22, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra23, Gentile Francesco Ficetola24,10, Sandra Garces-Pastor3, Rebecca E Garner25,26, Joanna Gauthier27,26, Charline Giguet-Covex28, Irene Gregory-Eaves27, Sara Harðardóttir29, David Harning30, Liv Heinecke31, Peter D. Heintzman3, Ulrike Herzschuh31,32, Veljo Kisand33, Michinobu Kuwae34, Franck Lejzerowicz35, Joanne Littlefair36, Erwan Messager28, Rachel Meyer37, Marie-Eve Monchamp27,26, Kuldeep More12, Tyler Murchie38,39, Kevin Nota40, Fredrik Olajos7, Ludovic Orlando41,23, William Orsi42,43, Laura Parducci44,40, Joanna Pawlowska45, Jan Pawlowski45,6, Mikkel W. Pedersen23, Vilma Perez5, Alexandre Poulain46, Jessica Louise Ray13, Sofia Ribeiro29, Dilli R. Rijal3,47, Alexandra Rouillard48,23, Johan Rydberg7, Luisa Schulte31, Peter Seeber21, Beth Shapiro37, Rafaelle Siano49, Trisha Spanbauer50, Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring31, Magdalena Suchora51, Pierre Taberlet10, Liisi Talas33, Camille Thomas4, Narumi Tsugeki52, Jordan von Eggers53, Aurèle Vuillemin42,43, David Walsh54, Yuchen Wang55,23, Agnes Weiner13, Jack W Williams56, Jamie Wood57, Heike Zimmermann31. ______________ 1 Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 2 Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 3 The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 5 Australian Centre for Ancient DNA School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaire, Australia 6 Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 7 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden 8 Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, USA 9 Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France 10 Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA Grenoble, France 11 School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom 12 Western Australia Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Curtin University, Bentley, Australia 13 NORCE - Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway 14 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 15 "Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo, Japan " 16 INRAE, University Savoie Mont Blanc, CARRTEL, Thonon les bains, France 17 CARRTEL, Pôle R&D ECLA, Thonon les bains, France 18 Department of Archaeology, University of York, BioArCh, York, United Kingdom 19 School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom 20 Alaska Quaternary Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA. 21 Limnological Institute, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Germany 22 University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom 23 Section for Geogenetics, GLOBE Institut, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 24 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Italy 25 Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada 26 Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie, QC, Canada 27 Department of Biology, University McGill, Montréal, QC, Canada 28 EDYTEM, UMR 5204 CNRS, University Savoie Mont Blanc, Le Bourget du Lac, France 29 GEUS – Glaciology and Climate Department, Copenhagen, Denmark 30 Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder 31 Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany 32 Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany 33 Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia 34 Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan 35 Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA 36 School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom 37 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA 38 McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Canada 39 Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada 40 Department of Ecology and Genetics, The Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 41 Laboratoire d’Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d’Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France 42 Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany 43 GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany 44 Department of Environmental Biology, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 45 Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland 46 Department of Biology, Ottawa University, Ottawa, ON, Canada 47 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 48 Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 49 Laboratoire d'Ecologie Pélagique, IFREMER, Plouzané, France 50 Department of Environmental Sciences and Lake Erie Center, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA 51 Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland 52 Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Matsuyama University, Ehime, Japan 53 Zoology and Physiology Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA 54 Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada 55 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 56 Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA 57 Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
How to cite: Capo, E. and the sedaDNA scientific community: Unifying the sedaDNA scientific community, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-4697, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-4697, 2021.
