Postdoctoral fellow for the BIOSCAN UK flying insects project to document UK insect diversity and discover species interactions
I am working on three complementary components of the BIOSCAN project. To future proof collected insect specimens, our group uses non-destructive DNA extraction techniques coupled with third generation sequencing platforms to achieve our aims.
- Document insect diversity in the UK
- Investigate insect cobiont interactions including diet, microbiome, and parasites
- Adapt amplicon panels made for high-throughput sequencing platforms to portable low-cost sequencer
My timeline
First place award for best poster at the International Conference on DNA Barcoding and Biodiversity, Sophia, Bulgaira
Awarded the Wellcome Translation Committee Fund (Project: Sequence-based species identification and analysis for anyone, anywhere)
Awarded PhD in Genomics (University of Copenhagen)
Joined Wellcome Sanger Institute as Postdoctoral fellow
Started PhD at the University of Copenhagen as part of the MSCA-ITN-ETN Plant.ID network
My publications
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Using ancient sediment #eDNA, we assess ecosystem changes across 16 millennia. Our reconstruction indicates a millennial-scale time phase of formation to reach stable levels of #biodiversity and functioning
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abo7434
Environmental DNA metabarcoding read numbers and their variability predict species abundance, but weakly in non-dominant species
#eDNA #environmentalDNA
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.355
