Tuesday, 26 November
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Lisa Matisoo-Smith | Welcome |
| 9:40 - 10:10 | Mike Bunce | Metabarcoding of biological samples – where have we been, where are we going and why? |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Alicia Grealy | Bulk bone metabarcoding: Dos and Don’ts |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Mieke van der Heyde | Testing multiple substrates for terrestrial biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA metabarcoding |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Jo Stanton | Looking for pathogens using real time DNA analysis: sample preparation and sequencing technology at the point-of-need (PoN). |
| 11:40 - 11:45 | Kristen Fernandes | Assessing the impacts of urbanisation on the foraging habits of Australian cavity nesting bees using DNA metabarcoding. |
| 11:45 - 11:50 | Sindy Luu | Investigating the subsistence strategies of ancient Kiowa, Papua New Guinea Highlands, via bulk bone metabarcoding strategies. |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Gert-Jan Jeunen | Detecting novel invasion fronts through environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding surveys: a case study in Belarussian rivers. |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Shaun Wilkinson | Model-based taxon assignment for environmental DNA |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Tina Summerfield | Microbial community assembly and responses to oceanic climate change in the South Pacific Gyre |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Sue Vern Song | Environmental DNA sampling as an effective tool for assessing estuarine fish communities |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Hawis Madduppa | Life below Anthropocene waters: detecting shark and rays across Indonesian reef system using environmental DNA |
| 14:30 -14:35 | Hannah Heynderickx | Impact of Ocean Acidification on phytoplankton and bacteria interactions |
| 14:35 - 14:40 | Clare Adams | Can haplotypes be recovered from environmental DNA? |
| 14:40 - 14:45 | Andrew Douglas | Soil microbiomes in a warming climate |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Aimee van der Reis | Diet of opportunistic benthic generalists help to unravel deep-sea food webs |
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Anastasija Zaiko | Molecular tools for marine biosecurity: applications, advantages, limitations and way forward |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Ulla Ammon | Steppingstones: Transferring molecular biosecurity capability from New Zealand to Tahiti |
| 16:10 - 16:15 | Francois Audrezet | Elucidating marine biofouling recruitment on biodegradable polymers augmented with oyster shell filler |
| 16:15 - 16:20 | Adria Eda | Does the cutaneous microbiome of the native New Zealand frog confer protection against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis? |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Katie Brasell | Sedimentary DNA for molecular analysis: how does medium-term storage impact DNA quality and quantity? |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Dana Clark | Environmental metabarcoding as a novel tool for coastal management |