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Date: September 24th, 2025 New Zealand (NZST): 2:30 PM Australia – East (AEST): 12:30 PM Australia – West (AWST): 10:30 AM More info here - sednasociety.com/2025/09/03/s...

Great news! We are restarting our eDNA webinar series this year to share exciting new research with the eDNA community. Our first webinar is by Josh Koh (DCCEEW): Explainable Multimodal Machine Learning Using Combined environmental DNA and Biogeographic Features for Ecosystem Biomonitoring

At Queenstown Research Week, Ben Te Aikā talks about how Māori philosophy differs from Western philosophy:

The New Zealand Molecular Ecology conference returns for its 27th year! This meeting brings together students, researchers, & industry to divulge the latest in ecological genomics and eDNA. This year, the meeting is held in Raglan, 26-28th of November. You won’t want to miss it! shorturl.at/inWqz

@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social chats to the #public about how #feasible (not) #de-extinction is, and the #ethics surrounding this topic using his #aDNA expertise @universityofotago.bsky.social

@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social chats to the #public about how #feasible (not) #de-extinction is, and the #ethics surrounding this topic using his #aDNA expertise @universityofotago.bsky.social

📣 New paper! 📣 We summarise the outputs of last year's @sednasociety.bsky.social Airborne eDNA Workshop & chart a path for airborne eDNA as a transformative tool for #biodiversity, #biosecurity & #conservation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4a8vb6ja #eDNA #airDNA #SeDNAS

Shout out to my co-authors! Lead author Rachel Tulloch, @clare-edna.bsky.social @drbarnes.org @profbatgirl.bsky.social @digleeson.bsky.social @annajmhopkins.bsky.social @annamac.bsky.social

Wilcox Rōpū at @geneticsaus.bsky.social dinner last night: (L->R) Clare Adams, Phil Wilcox, Bruce Weir, Alastair Lamont.

@alexeidrummond.bsky.social gave a wonderful keynote at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about how Bayesian/MCMC #models can be used on #cancer cells to determine when they originated and updates on #LPhy for all those #evolutionary #biologists out there.

Libby Liggins and Claire Rye chat about the #Aotearoa #Genomics #Data #Repository, including how #metadata can be submitted (including #eDNA). They are hoping to take #indigenous #governance to the #Genomic #Standards #Consortium later this year… @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@testeeves.bsky.social chats at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about how #genetics could play a role in careful #management of small endangered #bird populations.

Allyson Malpartida found #viruses in cattle troughs in NT #Australia using #eRNA and #eDNA techniques. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Introducing the SeDNAs Members Starter Pack 🧬 Connect with fellow members of the society, grow your eDNA network, and spark new collaborations! Comment below or message to be added to the pack go.bsky.app/GBwDbax

@sebasalco.bsky.social talks at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about #Hector and #Maui’s #dolphins, including chromosomal inversions which may help keep these species separate… @laninsky.bsky.social

Richard O’Rorke chats about #eDNA from #bugs on #cars at @geneticsaus.bsky.social

So proud of Teremoana Porter-Rawiri for doing fungal #eDNA in the #Wairarapa. Restored, unrestored, and remnant sites showed differences, correlating with nitrogen. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Meriam Van Os finds #fish differences in preserved #Kurī (dog) 💩 , showing what some of the diet may have been. #aDNA #eDNA @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@rebeccakfrench.bsky.social chats about #Kākāpō #disease #transcriptomics, showing that E. coli may correlate with #diseased birds. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

@EmZLCarroll chats about #Tohorā right #whale #conservation #genetics and potential impacts in foraging #habitat #decline. Whale snot and #eDNA can be partnered with long term #datasets for effective #monitoring. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Megan Leask chats about how we can move towards #culturally competent #precision #medicine in #Aotearoa New Zealand. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Catherine Collins chats about her work with some of the first #Māori peoples in #Aotearoa using #ancientDNA.

Catherine Collins chats about her work with some of the first #Māori peoples in #Aotearoa using #ancientDNA.

Conner Wātene O’Sullivan chats about the Māori community perspective and some of his outreach in schools as well as precision medicine work. @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Jordan highlights differences between Western and Kaupapa Māori research values… but then goes on to discuss how these methods overlap @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Alana Alexander chats about how to connect the #Māori world and research, ensuring that Te Ao Māori is protected @geneticsaus.bsky.social

Hey #eDNA and #genetics fam, I’ll be at @geneticsaus.bsky.social’s #GSA #meeting next week reppin’ some #quantitative #genetics work I’ve been doing. Stop by and say hi! ☕️💕

Who could ask for a better #panel of people to #strategize an #eDNA #world? Michael Marnane, Manpreet Dahmi, Dianne Gleeson, Olly Berry, and Chris Meyers #SeDNA2025

Chris Meyer from the #Smithsonian #Institute talks about the USA’s #National #eDNA #strategy #SeDNA2025

Based on the science, diversity matters www.nature.com/articles/s43... "...science has established the importance of diversity time and time again."

@maartendb.bsky.social suggests a #lab #effect (commercial lab providers may show different results) when every lab does their own thing, but we still see the same #ecological #patterns. #SeDNA2025

#eDNA needs to explain that we NEED #taxonomists, especially when it comes to #national #reference #databases. Jenny Giles chats about #Aussie #sequencing #campaigns #SeDNA2025

@shaunwilkinson.bsky.social advocates to #eDNA sample wide and deep!! He’s creating a #regional #eDNA #alert #system #SeDNA2025

#SeDNAs members @sednasociety.bsky.social

If you’re following along with #SeDNAs, don’t forget to come along to our #AGM, both in person (R2) and online :)

A question of scale and abundance— we can get accurate fisheries data with eDNA over large scales, says Ryan Kelly.

Taylor Ely shows that #eDNA for #fish #communities reflects tissue #haplotypes for #multiple #species at the same time! And now we can see #significant #breaks in our #population #patterns. #SeDNA2025

Abinaya Meenakshisundaram chats about how #microhaplotype #markers can be used for #nuclear #eDNA #population #genetics! #SeDNA2025

Michael Stat talks about how #eDNA #metabarcoding can reflect true #abundance if the #sample #collection #methods are good. #SeDNA2025

Looking to #quantify your #eDNA #data? Trying to find #cutoffs for #species lists? Simon Jarman is can help you estimate this via his #sqema #software #pipeline.

Simon Jarman takes us back to our #ecology roots to show #rare #communities can be #quantified by #ranking (#zero-inflated #data, anyone?) #SeDNA2025

Haylea Power isolates #cells from #eDNA so that we can get #population #genetics! Sorting #e-cells with #fluorescence can be difficult but the small bit you get is worth it! #SeDNA2025

One thing I kept hearing from the #Ministry For #Primary #Industries (when I worked there) was that they needed #eDNA #assays to be #WOAH gold #standard. Good to see this highlighted by Alejandro during his #eDNA #keynote! #SeDNA2025

Alejandro Trujillo Gonzalez speaks about how #managers think about how to use #eDNA #solutions— how do we make our #eDNA #assays useful to the #end-user? #SeDNA2025

Bruce Deagle reminds us that #diets can be represented in many different ways— how best can #eDNA represent #abundance? #SeDNA2025

@clare-edna.bsky.social opens the last day of #SeDNA2025 with a karakia

Another great #eDNA #timeline by Bruce Deagle’s #keynote at #SeDNA2025

Miwa Takahashi tries to convince us to make #eDNA #metadata #FAIR. Will this work for #Aotearoa #New #Zealand #CARE demands? #SeDNA2025 www.gida-global.org/care

Shannon Corrigan chats about @minderoo.bsky.social ’s progress on #reference #quality #genomes. As many #eDNA #scientists know, #reference #databases are our backbone. #SeDNA2025 (Would be keen to know how the project is doing #indigenous #data #sovereignty?)