@nicolemarieanthony
🦉Educator 💻Bioinformatics 🧬eDNA 🌱Molecular Ecology 🧫Biotech 🐶French Bulldogs 🥾Exercise is good 🔎 Looking for an unconventional 🧬eDNA project mentor https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolemarieanthony
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...
🚀 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.
#newepisode just dropped!
Environmental #DNA or #eDNA is the study of genetic material in the #environment.
How can we apply it to the #deepsea? Revealing the hidden majority, changes through time and community structure, the possibilities seem endless.
open.spotify.com/episode/2XQv...
🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA,
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
I wish there was a PhD-level after work program for learning #eDNA and #molecular #ecology. Just for fun.
Thanks so much!
Anyone know where to access and download historical climate data (temp, wind, precipitation) from northwestern Italy?
Anyone know where to access and download historical climate data (temp, wind, precipitation) from northwestern Italy?
Screenshot of first part of job ad which has the summary of job posting number, department, salary, etc. The same info is in the link.
JOB: Statistical Ecologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)
* 2 years, full time
* Salary $69k-93k + benefits
* Remote &/or in-office (at U Alberta)
* Apply by 10 Jan abmi.ca/abmi-home/co...
#ConservationJobs #ScienceJobs
Check out our latest paper on #eDNA and metabarcoding data reporting standards 🤓🧬🧪
These minimum reporting guidelines for metabarcoding workflows extend from the physical layout of laboratories through to data archiving enhance trust and reliability in data
mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1286...
Stray #eDNA is all around us! www.sciencenews.org/article/edna...
Come work with us on #eDNA and salmonid pathogens! 🐟🦠 Please share:
What was one of your ah-ha moments? Where did it lead you?
If you’re in the world of #eDNA, let’s connect—I would love to chat about your work.
#eDNA #bioinformatics #NGS #metabarcoding #physaliacourses
This may seem like an insignificant step to those with more experience, but I know many can relate to a sweet “ah-ha” moment. What used to feel like a constant struggle learning #bioinformatics, now feels like an exciting challenge, and I'm so pumped to keep learning more.
Each step gets you closer to understanding the tools available to work with your data.
This course taught me the essentials of handling real NGS data in the #commandline. Using those skills, I've started the challenge of replicating the results of an environmental DNA (#eDNA) #metabarcoding study.
But I’ve realized that bioinformatics is iterative by nature. You test parameters, review results, tweak things, and try again, often through many different approaches. And that feeling of discomfort? It’s not a sign of failure or lack of skill. It's a signal of learning and how progress happens.
…it’s an essential part of the work.
When I first started learning #bioinformatics over a year ago, it felt like having to run multiple iterations of an analysis or fixing mistakes meant I wasn’t skilled enough. If I were better, wouldn’t it just work the first time?
Certificate of attendance
"Bioinformatics is an experiment."
This simple statement from Christoph Hahn, one of the awesome instructors for the Physalia Autumn School in Bioinformatics course, really stuck with me. It helped me see that the constant trial-and-error process isn’t something to avoid…
Signed up! So excited for it ☺️
So excited for this!
What do you need to get involved in marine community science?
🤔 Curiosity
😄 Enthusiasm
⌚ A little free time
🌊 An interest in the ocean
That's it!
Curious about what projects you can get involved in? Take a peek at this list and get started today
www.oceanoculus.com/...
A set of three charts from the 2024 living planet report by the world wildlife fund. They show marine wildlife populations declining by 56% since 1970, terrestrial by 69%, and freshwater by 85%
The WWF Living Planet report for 2024 is out. The headline is 73% of wildlife lost in the past 50 years, which only includes amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles (5495 species).
The full report is grim, but has a lot of ideas for improvement 🧪🐘🪶🐟🦎
livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/living...
I’m most familiar with mtCO1.
I’m drawn to metabarcoding BMIs as indicators of stream quality but happy to start small with single-species detection.
Hi Kristy, thanks! It’s such a great course. I took it in the summer.
🐟Food Traceability Using Genomic Tools🧬
Learn how cutting-edge genomic technologies (Illumina, @nanoporetech.com, qPCR) are revolutionising food traceability and sustainability
🦾: @shump.bsky.social & @marianilab.bsky.social
🔗https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/food-traceability/
Thank you!
Thanks!
Thanks! I’m in Ontario, Canada.
Thanks, Seth!