Sampling Life’s Alphabet Soup: Your Guide to Environmental DNA Monitoring
Sampling Life’s Alphabet Soup: Your Guide to Environmental DNA Monitoring
Animals, plants, and other organisms shed genetic waste into water, air, and soils, leaving behind an alphabet soup of life. Modern genetic tools are now unlocking the code of this environmental DNA, or 'eDNA', to monitor and study life all around the world. Remarkably, eDNA monitoring is now affordable and accessible enough for almost anyone to participate. This short course will provide a background on the nature of eDNA itself, its broad applications, and the basics of eDNA sampling for community groups and individuals interested in surveying Maine's woods and waters.
Speaker:
Michael T. Kinnison, Ph.D. Professor of Evolutionary Approaches
Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment
University of Maine
The Maine Center
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM on Tue, 7 May 2024
Event Supported By
University of Maine Portland Gateway
2072453640
gateway@maine.edu
The Maine Center
300 Fore Street
P,
Maine
04101
2072453640
gateway@maine.edu