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 traps. Samples are used for next generation biodiversity monitoring which couples ‘boots on the ground’ Read more…
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 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.
Gina Capretta made an excellent contribution to our lab’s research with her MSc project on targeted transcriptomics. She also had a great defence day on Thursday and is officially done before Christmas break 🙂 Of course, she is also happy to claim her “You Made It” mug.
Nicole Fahner defended her thesis on Thursday. Nicole made an excellent contribution as part of the Biomonitoring 2.0 team. Here is Nicole at a local restaurant one hour after her defence…and soon after.
Lisa Ledger successfully defended her MSc thesis yesterday. Great job, Lisa. One more project completed using samples from our long-term field sites in ACG, Costa Rica. Best wishes to Lisa in her future plans.
We are glad to see our paper, Next-generation DNA barcoding: using next-generation sequencing to enhance and accelerate DNA barcode capture from single specimens among the top downloaded papers in Evolutionary Biology of Wiley journals. This paper was published in Molecular Ecology Resources and has been the most downloaded article in Read more…
Environment Canada’s Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Team and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, co-hosted the third biennial CABIN Science Forum from December 2-3, 2014 in Guelph, Ontario. Previous science forums were held in Vancouver, BC in 2010 and Fredericton, NB in 2012. The two-day forum included themed sessions Read more…
Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Ian King gave talks at the 2014 Latornell Conservation Symposium on Wednesday, Nov. 19th. They were part of the session “What’s in Your Water? Ecological Applications of eDNA for Species Detection and Monitoring”. Mehrdad Hajibabaei: “Biodiversity Analysis through Environmental DNA: From Microbes to Mammals” Ian King: “Using environmental DNA (eDNA) Read more…