Project STREAM, Sequencing the Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring was officially launched on February 4. Our lab has started an exciting collaboration with WWF-Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Living Lakes Canada and many community groups and citizen scientists to advance the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding to assess watershed health across Canada.
The Hajibabaei lab recently published a tool called MetaWorks in PLoS ONE to help facilitate and standardize the processing of large-scale genomics datasets used for biomonitoring from samples like soil, water, and samples collected in Read more…
Congratulations to Katie McGee for completing her PhD. Congratulations to Siavash Nazari for completing his MSc Bioinformatics.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B The theme issue, ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’ co-edited by Paul Hebert, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Peter Hollingsworth is available for review.