@leeselab.bsky.social
Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen 🇪🇺🇩🇪 tweeting mostly about the work we do in our Aquatic Ecosystem Research Group. A lot of DNA / eDNA & popgen stuff on streams & automated biodiversity monitoring approaches.
Wahl zum Wissensbuch des Jahres 2025
Ich freue mich sehr, dass unser Buch „Von Angesicht zu Angesicht“ dabei ist!
Ihr könnt uns sowie unsere Arbeit, mit der wir für biologische Vielfalt begeistern, mit eurer Stimme in der Kategorie „Ästhetik“ unterstützen: www.konradin-service.de/umfrage/inde...
It’s happening again! Our @crc-resist.bsky.social team from @unidue.bsky.social is in Hesse to prepare the next large #ExStream experiment. Stay tuned.
#freshwater #biodiversity #multiplestressors
🔵Pond Postdoc Position!🔵
🧬🐸🦇🏡🦟🧪
We have an open position linked to two exciting pond projects! - citizen science program MyPond on garden ponds &
- BIODIVERSA+ TRANSPONDER project exploring biodiversity across European ponds!
➡️➡️➡️ metacomlab.com/opportunities/
Pls repost!
@epcn.bsky.social
And it’s a wrap! Thx to all participants - and the instructor colleagues, and the fantastic @physaliacourses.bsky.social team. How good you bring people together through organizing these courses. ☀️🙏
18.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We’re happy to announce Dr. Lennard Stach!! 🥳🥳 Well done Lennard for a brilliant defense and thesis!! We will miss you!
Finally, thank you @leeselab.bsky.social for sitting in the thesis committee! 🫶
🎉 We’re thrilled to kick off the Eukaryotic "eDNA" Metabarcoding workshop with @leeselab.bsky.social @dominikbuchner.bsky.social , @tillmacher.bsky.social , @shump.bsky.social & an amazing group of participants joining us from across the globe—from Australia to Peru, from USA & Canada to Europe! 🌍🧬💻
14.07.2025 12:49 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our team @unidue.bsky.social turned 🔟 today & I found myself in a spontaneous celebration event.
Really happy & grateful to work here with such a great bunch of talented & nice people - connected to our collaborators around the 🌎. Life could be worse. Weiter geht‘s. ☀️Maybe more lab work next 🔟 ?
Very good to see our @pensoft.net journal @mbmg.pensoft.net continues to receive good CiteScores and also now the first #ImpactFactor with a good value of 3.1 ☀️
While I personally don’t care much about these metrics I know they are really relevant for many institutions. Thus: very happy about this!
🙏 And just as an addition: don‘t use these primers for bulk sample metabarcoding. There others are ways better (we recommend fwhF2/fwhR2n as a good solution; further solutions like BF2/BR3 or mlCOI with dgHCO exist)
27.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Immer ein Highlight: die #DGL Jahrestagung. 2025 laden wir zu einer Special Session ein: „Genetischen Verfahren im biologischen Gewässermonitoring“ 🧬 👉 auf 🇩🇪&🇬🇧
Kommt vorbei, meldet euch an: www.dgl-jahrestagungen.de/phone/index....
#Vortrag #Poster #Tagung #Limnologie #omics #eDNA #Monitoring
Join us for the Eukaryotic Metabarcoding course w/ @leeselab.bsky.social @dominikbuchner.bsky.social
shorturl.at/wRW4T Till & @shump.bsky.social
Get hands-on experience analysing Illumina & @nanoporetech.com data & learn how to run metabarcoding pipelines from raw sequences to ecological insights
Contributors include: @florianaltermatt.bsky.social, @rosiecblackman.bsky.social, @francoiskeck.bsky.social,
@lorihandley.bsky.social,
@leeselab.bsky.social
In our May issue: Perspective led by Florian Altermatt discussing how to bring aquatic eDNA collection and data management in line with the Kunming-Montreal Global #Biodiversity Framework. 🧪🌎
Web link: go.nature.com/4mv2h4W
Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0uC
It has been a collective effort with a great contributions by Isabel Blasco-Costa, Alejandro Trujillo González & @leeselab.bsky.social. It is also related to our activities within the IMPACT project! Make sure to follow @impact-parasites.bsky.social and check out all other fascinating chapters! 🤩
20.05.2025 07:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🌍 Europe is facing an exceptionally dry spring in 2025: 37 out of 38 countries covered by the @EEA have been hit by drought.
To help track this growing threat, we’ve launched a new interactive drought map 🗺️— updated monthly & based on near real-time data: water.europa.eu/freshwater/e...
Great News: Our book Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites has been published online open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @nicojsmit.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
16.05.2025 13:01 — 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1#consgen
09.05.2025 13:40 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
👍🏼 and regarding international collaboration: we‘d love to have your feedback on a European society for environmental omics (or environmental DNA? Semantics) here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
14.05.2025 18:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FAIR #eDNA data and transparent workflows are essential. Harmonisation should come after standardisation. International collaboration and partnership will drive progress #UKDNAWG25
14.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Different labs can produce vastly different results which leads to ‘eDNA doesn’t work’ - ring and proficiency testing is key. Establishing minimum standards (e.g. sequencing depth) and metadata reporting is crucial. Stringency of standards will vary by taxonomic group #UKDNAWG25
14.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Thx for this post @kirstenjharper.bsky.social - hope it is ok I used it in a longer post here www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...
14.05.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
@leeselab.bsky.social #eDNA can contribute to global biodiversity goals. Its use and outcomes proven many times over. It’s scalable, reliable and cost effective. But why is global uptake slow? Barriers like unequal access to technical infrastructure #UKDNAWG25
14.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Last session of #UKDNAWG25 is standards, best practice, current knowledge gaps and future opportunities. @leeselab.bsky.social discusses how we go from wild west of #eDNA to standards. Challenges are limited comparability of methods and unequal access to technical infrastructure and funding.
14.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Just out now: the Special Issue in Science of The Total Environment | Multilevel response to stressor increase and release in stream ecosystems | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier @crc-resist.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
08.05.2025 12:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We published a special issue on #multiplestressors in #rivers: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Stories about #ExStream experiments and the impact of 9 stressors on 5 organism groups from Europe and New Zealand. @crc-resist.bsky.social, @berndsures.bsky.social
10.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
New paper out by #MandySander via @umweltstiftung.bsky.social fellowship &supported by @crc-resist.bsky.social
Capture—Incubate—Release: An Animal-Friendly Approach to Assess Local Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Species Diversity Through eDNA Metabarcoding
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
#eDNA #eRNA #omics people: would you support the formation of a European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? Please share your thoughts in the questionnaire & spread this message! 🙏
Thank you, the ESEO core team!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dieses Gefühl, wenn die Bahn kommt, pünktlich ist (zumindest fast) - und dann auch noch ein Sitzplatz frei ist… #Endorphinrausch #Pendler #ÖPNVfan
29.04.2025 05:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thanks to all co-authors for a great and efficient collaboration! #MarjorieCouton, #LucaCarraro, @francoiskeck.bsky.social , @lorihandley.bsky.social , @leeselab.bsky.social , #XiaoweiZhang, #YanZhang & @rosiecblackman.bsky.social
@eawag.bsky.social , #UZH & beyond
