Tamara Schenekar

New paper: eDNA metabarcoding at African savanna waterholes revealed 95 species. Wet season shows overall richness, dry season favors mammals. Primer choice matters. We’re excited about eDNA powering wildlife monitoring! 🦒🐢🪿🐍 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70… #eDNA #Wildlife #Africa

Great to be in Burundi, with @MPM_Vanhove and @KmentovaNikol of @CMK_Uhasselt to kickstart their project #AfroWetMaP, in collaboration with the Université du Burundi , aiming to monitor protected African wetlands via parasites, macroinvertebrates and, of course eDNA!

🚨 We’re thrilled to kick off the eDNA Metabarcoding course, funded by @eDNAcollab ! 🌍 Researchers worldwide are joining us this week to learn how to analyse their eDNA data with guidance from an exceptional team of instructors. @leeselab @buchner_dominik @TillMacher Peter Shum

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: doi.org/10.1002/edn3.7…

Had a blast to co-lecture the first Conservation Genomics and Biomonitoring Workshop in Maun, Botswana this week, delving into topics from DNA sampling to wet lab work, eDNA, molecular ecology evolutionary biology and analysis of whole genome data! To be continued!

🧬#eDNA people, please help me spread the word: we have set up the #MAnES course at @uniinnsbruck for people who want to get into #eDNA and #MolecularTrophicInteractions covering #sampling #qPCR #metabarcoding #bioinformatics application deadline: 30th June!

It's a wrap! Finished all #metabarcoding libraries of our #eDNA samples from South African waterholes, hopefully containing lots of #mammal DNA! Can't wait to send these little bastards out for sequencing. This needs to be celebrated with a great South African pinotage!🦒🦏🦓🧬🍷

Really enjoyed the Conservation Genomics Paris conference hosted by @Le_Museum! Great talks about population #genomics #conservation #eDNA and much more!

@alpineedna @CatiaALPereira In general great, but after 18L we noticed more and more air (instead of water) getting sucked through the pump, due to some leakage in the assembly which we couldn't find. Not sure whether that was an issue with our pump or simply an effect of the filter becoming more clogged.

@TSchenekar @CatiaALPereira Awesome action shots. Glad to be an excuse to get to the field. Thank you so much!!! Curious how the kit worked for you.

Had a blast getting out into the field again, sampling #eDNA for the global #LeDNA project by @alpineedna and @CatiaALPereira. Looking forward to the results of this global biodiversity assessment effort!

@chorye This video made my day!

Aspirating ethanol off a precipitated DNA pellet twitter.com/christlet/stat…

Received my sampling kit to contribute to the global lake sampling project #leDNAby @alpineedna! Several hundreds of lakes will be sampled in a standardized way and almost simultaneously across the entire globe in order to measure biodiversity. Excited to be a part of it!

Optimizing waterborne eDNA capture from waterholes in savanna systems under remote field conditions #eDNA #environmentalDNA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Happy to announce that our struggles to set up an #eDNA sampling and processing workflow in the middle of nowhere to detect #mammals from South African #waterholes is now online! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/1755-0…

Our genetic synthesis paper based on multiple Eurasian otter studies we conducted reveals a stark contrast between the current #management units (which are mostly defined by political borders) and the genetic structure of #otters in Austria (and as new data reveals also beyond)

Current management units of the Eurasian otter may not match the genetic structure Applying molecular genetic data at different scales to support conservation assessment of European Habitats Directive listed species doi.org/10.1111/eva.13… By Schenekar et al @TSchenekar

Back in the field for more #eDNA sampling in South Africa! The savanna is teaching is how drastically different its face can be, not only between seasons but also between years. We are hoping for the rains to arrive soon before we run out of water to filter 😅🌧️🦒🦏🐃🐇🐀

Feels great to be back in South Africa! Had a blast giving a short but sweet #metabarcoding workshop at @UPTuks, organized by @SANBI_ZA . Now off to the field for some more #eDNA sampling!

Today was our last day of dog trials, in which we are assess how much #eDNA is shed into water through different types of water #interactions (yes, including poop). Our five stars (#Lagotto Rogmagnolos, trained truffle dogs) were awarded with lots of cuddles afterwards!

Back in South Africa, for the first true "field season" of our comparative #eDNA vs #cameratrapping study to monitor South African #mammals at #waterholes ☀️🇿🇦🦒🦏🦇🐃🐀🐇