Ancient environmental DNA

Our newest ancient eDNA project is “Predicting the future from signatures of the past: using living sediment archives and ancient DNA to understand responses of marine primary producers to environmental changes”. The project will compare the effects of Holocene and Anthropocene changes on the composition and population genomic structures of phytoplankton through the entire 8500-year history of the Baltic Sea.

The project is funded by the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence funding programme of the Leibniz Gemeinschaft. PIs are Laura Epp (Uni Konstanz), Inga Hense (Uni Hamburg), Miki Bálint, with Anke Kremp (IOW) as coordinator