Symposium: Wednesday, 27 November
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Dianne Gleeson | Striking the balance between technology advancement and standardisation for eDNA applications |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Sophie Mazard | Collaborative national open-data initiatives to support eDNA research |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Austen Ganley | A web hub for national sharing of environmental DNA data |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | John Pearman | Stairway to heaven: exploring microbial communities in lake sediment along an elevational gradient |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Maïlys Picard | Mud Chronicles: exploring the effect of historical land-use changes on lake microbial communities |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Megan Devane | Investigating shifts in the bacterial community of decomposing cowpats and their impacts on water quality monitoring |
| 12:00 - 12:05 | Lena Schallenberg | Unravelling picocyanobacterial diversity and dynamics in contrasting New Zealand lakes using eDNA metabarcoding |
| 12:05 - 12:25 | Georgia Thomson-Laing | Slippery business: using environmental DNA to detect long-and short-finned tuna (eel) |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Laura Kelly | Finding Nemo: Using eDNA metabarcoding to characterise New Zealand freshwater fish communities |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | Ian Dickie | Sampling land-use intensification and biodiversity; patterns and method considerations |
| 14:05 - 14:25 | Sarah Sapsford | Pine invasion drives loss of soil fungal diversity |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Andrew Cridge | Using environmental DNA to identify and monitor new plant incursions into New Zealand |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Hugh Cross | Changes across time in Nordic forest fungal communities |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | Sebastian Vadillo Gonzalez | Investigating the microbial communities in sediment bioturbator burrows and links to nutrient cycling |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Paul Czechowski | Implementations of Large Scale Biodiversity Surveys Using eDNA |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Closing Remarks |