UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022
Abstract Here, we report on eDNA week, an international conference held online as a five‐day series of webinars from January 17, 2022, to January 21, 2022. The conference was organized by the UK DNA working group, which has witnessed considerable growth and application of eDNA research since its fou...
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| author | Lori Lawson Handley Tabitha Blackwell Holly A. Broadhurst Katie Clark Phil I. Davison Judy England Stefano Mariani Allan D. McDevitt Kirthana Pillay Dan Read Kerry Walsh Andy Nisbet Simon Creer |
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| description | Abstract Here, we report on eDNA week, an international conference held online as a five‐day series of webinars from January 17, 2022, to January 21, 2022. The conference was organized by the UK DNA working group, which has witnessed considerable growth and application of eDNA research since its founding and first conference in 2014. The 2022 event, held online due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, provided an opportunity to invite international researchers who are leading the field, without the usual constraints of conference location. Compared with the previous UK‐based in‐person conferences, there was greater international participation amongst the 514 people who registered to attend the event. To emphasize the importance of collaboration between sectors in driving forward DNA monitoring, a session was devoted to presentations by participants from governmental agencies, and another to those from commercial companies developing and utilizing DNA tools. The industry and stakeholder sessions were accompanied by state‐of‐the‐art presentations delivered by a global group of DNA/eDNA researchers from 11 countries. These sessions were complemented by an open forum session for reflection and discussion. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04e6b72f7f3a41e4afe2aeb1a93a6c462023-01-20T12:18:11ZengWileyEnvironmental DNA2637-49432023-01-0151182410.1002/edn3.364UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022Lori Lawson Handley0Tabitha Blackwell1Holly A. Broadhurst2Katie Clark3Phil I. Davison4Judy England5Stefano Mariani6Allan D. McDevitt7Kirthana Pillay8Dan Read9Kerry Walsh10Andy Nisbet11Simon Creer12Department of Biological and Marine Sciences University of Hull Kingston upon Hull UKSchool of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham UKSchool of Science, Engineering and Environment University of Salford Salford UKNatural England, Horizon House Bristol UKCentre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Lowestoft Laboratory Suffolk UKEnvironment Agency, Red Kite House, Howbery Park, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford UKSchool of Biological and Environmental Sciences Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UKSchool of Science, Engineering and Environment University of Salford Salford UKSchool of Natural Sciences Bangor University Bangor UKUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), Benson Lane Wallingford UKUK Environment Agency Rotherham UKNatural England, Horizon House Bristol UKMolecular Ecology and Evolution Group, School of Natural Sciences Bangor University Bangor UKAbstract Here, we report on eDNA week, an international conference held online as a five‐day series of webinars from January 17, 2022, to January 21, 2022. The conference was organized by the UK DNA working group, which has witnessed considerable growth and application of eDNA research since its founding and first conference in 2014. The 2022 event, held online due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, provided an opportunity to invite international researchers who are leading the field, without the usual constraints of conference location. Compared with the previous UK‐based in‐person conferences, there was greater international participation amongst the 514 people who registered to attend the event. To emphasize the importance of collaboration between sectors in driving forward DNA monitoring, a session was devoted to presentations by participants from governmental agencies, and another to those from commercial companies developing and utilizing DNA tools. The industry and stakeholder sessions were accompanied by state‐of‐the‐art presentations delivered by a global group of DNA/eDNA researchers from 11 countries. These sessions were complemented by an open forum session for reflection and discussion.https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.364biodiversityecosystem biomonitoringeDNAenvironmental DNAUK DNA working groupwebinar |
| spellingShingle | Lori Lawson Handley Tabitha Blackwell Holly A. Broadhurst Katie Clark Phil I. Davison Judy England Stefano Mariani Allan D. McDevitt Kirthana Pillay Dan Read Kerry Walsh Andy Nisbet Simon Creer UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 Environmental DNA biodiversity ecosystem biomonitoring eDNA environmental DNA UK DNA working group webinar |
| title | UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 |
| title_full | UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 |
| title_fullStr | UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 |
| title_full_unstemmed | UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 |
| title_short | UK DNA working group eDNA week, January 2022 |
| title_sort | uk dna working group edna week january 2022 |
| topic | biodiversity ecosystem biomonitoring eDNA environmental DNA UK DNA working group webinar |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.364 |
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