Dr. Kathryn Stewart💧🧬
@Kat_A_Stewart
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Asst Prof @UniLeiden, @NWO Vidi laureate, Editor @oikos_journal, Editor @evoecology, #eDNA, #evolutionaryecology, #conservation, brew enthusiast, mom, 🇨🇦
Leiden, The Netherlands
Joined July 2017
🎇New paper alert GENETIC POLLUTION-caused by human-driven hybridization-is more widespread and dangerous than you think. With modern DNA tools, we can act BUT policy must catch up fast! Read more: https://t.co/t2gbKuVP0C
#conservation #biodiversity #biosecurity
link.springer.com
Discover Conservation - Genetic pollution (i.e. anthropogenic hybridization) is insidious; it is a worryingly common problem that should be taken more seriously. Advances in DNA sequencing...
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🧬 Calling all #eDNA and #EnvironmentalOmics enthusiasts! At the AquaEcOmics meeting, 35 international experts discussed forming a European Society for Environmental Omics (ESEO) to strengthen collaboration across the field. 🧵(1/4)
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New preprint alert: we present a new PASSIVE air #eDNA sampler that outperforms two commonly used active samplers. Our passive approach detected species up to 500+meters away and showed association with species biomass https://t.co/YMNdz2GNAO 3D printable for a few €!!!!
biorxiv.org
Terrestrial biodiversity’s rapid decline worldwide demands for expansion of high-resolution biomonitoring to support science-based policy. Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis has proven effective at...
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If you're in the eDNA/metabarcoding/FAIR data practices world, or have interest in it, check out our new paper! #eDNA #FAIRdata #MarineScience The MIEM guidelines: Minimum information for reporting of environmental metabarcoding data https://t.co/ZgVLON5IUZ via @MBMGjournal
mbmg.pensoft.net
Environmental DNA (eDNA) and RNA (eRNA) metabarcoding has become a popular tool for assessing biodiversity from environmental samples, but inconsistent documentation of methods, data and metadata...
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For women in academia, barriers to having children aren't just finding partners or preserving fertility. It's systemic barriers—relentless relocations, temporary contracts, focus on individual achievement—planning for a family is like an impossible luxury. https://t.co/itwB9c9odw
science.org
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Find me on the other side: https://t.co/AkyQ4wgfMW I’ll maintain both accounts, at least for you foreseeable future.
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Associate Editor is having a hard time finding reviewers for one of the papers we submitted. Anyone interested in diet / stomach contents of Arctic char and sculpin? If you are interested and don't mind me sharing contact info that I can pass onto the AE, send me a DM.
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We are hiring two tenure-track assistant professors at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern in conservation biology and mathematical and computational ecology https://t.co/wCoF7TYxrj l
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Most research is incremental and we should all be proud to help build a foundation of evidence towards change. Don’t let anyone tell you different!
Your research is still valuable even if you don't publish in the "top" academic journals.
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My PhD work is out! Frogs and toads have extremely conserved chromosomal evolution and gene orders over 200 million years of evolution. XY system and a new sex-linked region was also identified for western chorus frog! Stay tuned for my presentation at #BG24 this Thursday😄
Insights on macrosynteny, 'rebel' genes, and a new sex-linked region in anurans from comparative genomics and a new chromosome-level ... https://t.co/uCO5irCv75
#biorxiv_genomic
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Super happy to have my model published! Here, we show how biodiversity loss contributes to the increase of disease outbreaks, by the creation of an epidemiological model that can include biodiversity data. Thank you to my co-authors and everyone at UBC! https://t.co/fCKvsXrC3f
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Come work with me at #westernu! The successful candidate will take over the core lab course that I am currently teaching and add some pedagogical research. The course has an amazing teaching partner and great support from technicians. https://t.co/UlBdbTlEGw
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How long does your target #eDNA persist in #waterholes in the #savanna? Turns out eDNA #degradation depends on whether you 1.) sample water or sediments 2.) target extracellular or intracellular DNA. Find out more here: https://t.co/T1GCWETzZZ
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Register for the upcoming AquaEcOmics Symposium There will be keynote speakers on diverse topics. Submission deadline: sept 29 https://t.co/fc8JLgzgEk
#aquaecomics2025 #eDNA #omics #metagenomics #metabarcoding #dPCR #marine #freshwater #ecology #biomonitoring
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Using HT-qPCR to map riverscape-wide fish distributions from #eDNA. Really excited to share this protocol with substantial updates and optimizations from our first demonstration
cdnsciencepub.com
To achieve reliable detection of environmental DNA (eDNA) from multiple species, a method which combines the specificity of single-taxon assays with the broad taxonomic coverage of metabarcoding is...
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