Have you ever feel tired from active sampling all the time?

Our PhD student - Luke is developing a #passive sampling method of #eDNA using artificial sponges! 🧽

Some of the fieldwork moments

Awesome job by Taneisha Barrett with her PhD qualifying seminar today. Showcasing her research progress in improving our understanding of local and global tick biodiversity and ecological patterns.

a new group of experts has entered the villa 🤣

Super successful workshop The eDNA Collaborative!

Had a great time in Wuhan, China last week.

I was attending “The 5th Chinese #Chironomidae Symposium”. I got a chance to learn, discuss and present the topic that I am studying for my master degree. 😊

Such a fruitful and interesting trip!

Learning more from the expert Micaela Hellstrom today!

Guibert Isis Bai-an Lin Karen Yeung

Day 9: lecture and practical on advanced visualisation

Who doesn’t want a nice graph/table? 📊

Day 8: ggplot&phyloseq practical + data analysis discussion

Almost there🧑‍💻

Day 7: Taxonomy assignment & Introduction to R

💪🏼Keep learning

Day 6: Computer lab - Bioinformatics

Stepping into the 2nd week, our guest lecturers Gert-Jan Jeunen & Vasco Elbrecht introduced us the coding basics and alternate pipelines of bioinformatics.

Day 5: Gel imaging, discussion with The eDNA Collaborative, bioinformatics intro and evening social.

All charged for upcoming week 2 💪

Many thanks again to the Croucher Foundation and HKU School of Biological Sciences for their support

Day 4: Next gen sequencing methods, primer design & library prep lab - still smiling on a busy Thursday

it’s important to stay professional in a lab environment 😆 thankfully the #eDNAworkshop showed us the ropes

Day 3: eDNA extraction

Pulling DNA out of our samples

Learning a lot at HKU’s international #eDNAworkshop ! Today we went to the field to learn clean sample collection methods :) Xiaoyi Zeng eDNA&eEcology

Day 2: Fieldwork day

Time to collect some eDNA

⛅️It’s always sampling season for people who study Chironomids…

Elaine has been setting out Malaise Traps around Hong Kong streams these days, with the heavy support from Gabriel and numbers of student helpers.

Will they find some cool chironomids in the sample?

Day 1: Introduction & Orientation

Gert-Jan Jeunen Matthieu Leray
Micaela Hellstrom Vasco Elbrecht