Lab News - Prof. Elizabeth Clare

October 25, 2024 -Gliselle Marin’s work in Belize is covered in YFile
October 23, 2024 – The Clare lab is profiled in York Magazine in the article “Blown Away“
September 3, 2024 – Prof. Clare was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in the College of New Scholars. Announcement
August 12, 2024 – PhD student Gliselle Marin was profiled on NPR. You can find the story here
July 21, 2024 – Our Annual Field trip to Belize is being featured on NPR. Here is part 1 of the Batathon
July 17, 2024 – the nature paper is highlighted on Imperial College’s news site and in Nature News
July 17, 2024 – Some of my students and I are co-authors on a paper in Nature
May 4th 2024 – Our work profiled in ITT Madras Shaastra
May 2nd 2024 – Our work is profiled in Re newable Matter also translated into Italian
April 16th, 2024 – Nina’s MSc has been awarded a York University thesis prize.
April 12th, 2024 – funding award from ECCC
April 9th, 2024 – Co-I on an NSERC RTI award!
February 12th, 2024 – Prof Clare was featured along with some of the best in the world in this history of eDNA in Undark magazine and in MIT technology review
February 8th, 2024 – Prof Clare, Nicole Borsato and Nina Garrett were given awards at the Faculty of Science annual gala
February 5th, 2024 – Prof Clare was asked to comment on new neat work on DNA in spider webs for NPR, CNN and CBC
January 4th, 2024 – The lab eDNA work was featured on the Solve for X podcast here
October 28th, 2023 – Well done Jane Hallam on your new paper on high resolution eDNA sampling for fish communities.
October 15th, 2023 – Congratulations Nina Garrett on winning the Bat Conservation International student conference talk award
October 12th, 2023 – well done on the first conference presentation of your PhD Kat Lunn!
October 12th, 2023 – Prof. Clare … tenured and promoted (again lol)
October 11th, 2023 – well done on the poster presented at NASBR Alejandro Biganzoli,
October 1st 2023 – welcome to the lab Dr. Mateus Pepinelli, post doc, lab manager and bee expert!
September 1st 2023 – welcome back Nina Garrett, starting her PhD
September 1st 2023 – welcome to the lab Gliselle Marin, starting a PhD
June 5, 2023 – our new paper came out in Current Biology and was covered in Science, Nature, Wired, Globe and Mail, Popular Science, The Washington Post, C BC, BBC, NewScientist and many others
June 1st, 2023 – welcome to the Clare Lab Orianne Tournayre, starting a post doc with us and Dr. Melania Cristescu at McGill.
May 9, 2023 – Science magazine profiles the plight of the wild axoltl including work from PhD student Alejandro Maeda-Obregón here
May 3, 2023 – We’ve been awarded an NFRF grant to study bees, here comes beeDNA here
April 26, 2023 – Nina’s paper on bat roost monitoring by eDNA goes live here
March 31, 2023 – we’ve been awarded an NSERC Alianc C2C grant supported by NatureMetrics here
March 5, 2023 – Lab paper 80 is now in press. The use of isotopes to measure changes in tropic structure during deforestation.
March 1, 2023 – Airborne eDNA technology wins the Gizomdo 2023 science fair award
January 20, 2023 – Nina and I co-author a paper on eDNA in airborne dust with Mark Johnson and Matt Barnes.
January 12, 2023 – Nina’s first first paper on eDNA detection of bats in the air has appeared online! Well done!
January 4, 2023 – Welcome to the lab Dr. Dani Marquina-Hernandez!
December 6, 2022 – Nina’s paper demonstrating the first application of airborne eDNA in the wild for bat roost surveys was accepted to PeerJ
December 6, 2022 – A paper co-authored by Nina and I on DNA in dust was accepted to Environmental DNA.
December 1, 2022 – Our eDNA work and Nina’s new papers are featured on the GeneticsUnzipped podcast
November 3, 2022 – Well done Nina on the acceptance of your first airDNA paper to Environmental DNA – paper 77 is yours with more to come.
October 7, 2022 – Paper accepted to CJZ with Burton Lim – lab paper number 76.
September 22, 2022 – lovely TV documentary about the lab and airborne eDNA by Découverte
September 19, 2022 – welcome to the lab Alejandro Biganzoli… starting his PhD.
September 9, 2022 – Kat’s paper on fungal symbionts of solitary bees came out in the Bulletin of Entomological Research
August 8, 2022 – Kelly’s paper on microbiomes in fragmented forest came out in ISME communications
August 5, 2022 – we are featured in a story by the National Geographic
July 31, 2022 – our work featured on Future Tense ABC Radio Australia
July 28, 2022 – Congratulations Kat on your paper accepted to the Bulletin of Entomological Research – paper 75.
April 4, 2022 – Cell Press/iScience has published a “back story” on how we managed to coordinate publication.
April 1 2022 – congratulations Nina on your NSERC fellowship!
February 18th 2022 – Welcome back to the lab Kat Lunn… starting her PhD in Fall 2022
February 12th 2022 – Welcome to the lab Nicole Borsato… starting her MSc in Fall 2022
February 7th 2022 – We have been honored with the cover of Current Biology

January 21st 2022 – Our work featured on US public radio Science Friday
January 16th 2022 – Our work is featured live on CTV news.
January 14th 2022 – Lap paper 74 goes to Hernani with his paper accepted to Molecular Ecology
January 7th 2022 – Our work is featured on Quirks and Quarks Canada’s world famous national science show
January 6th, 2022 – the Zoo eDNA in the air story goes wild with coverage from NPR, CNN, CTV, CBC News, CBC radio The Scientist, The Economist, Financial Times, Smithsonian Magazine, NHM, Popular Science, BBC and many more.
November 26, 2021 – lab paper 73: new paper with Tiago and Kelly on the response of microbes to fragmentation.
November 26, 2021 – lab paper 72: the Zoo airDNA paper has been accepted to Current Biology
November 24, 2021 – lab paper 71: Congratulations Dylan on your BER paper being accepted
November 18, 2021 – lab paper 70: Congratulations Philip and Tiago on your J Mammalogy paper
October 14, 2021 – lab paper 69: Congratulations Dave on your Frontiers paper being accepted
September 2021 – Welcome to the lab Nina Garrett!
August 20, 2021 – lab paper 68: Congratulations Dave on your ME paper being accepted.
August 13, 2021 – lab paper 67: Rosie’s mammal DNA from dung beetle paper now live here
August 11, 2021 – a feature interview on eDNA on the Naked Scientist podcast here
August 8, 2021 – great coverage in the Guardian
July 28, 2021 – excellent airDNA coverage in Smithsonian Magazine
July 23, 2021 – wow great coverage of our pre-print in Science and New Scientist
July 22, 2021 – wow Genome Canada has funded our project! Here comes BIOSCAN
July 21, 2021 – lab paper 66 goes to Jane – well done on your first paper!
July 1st 2021 – the lab officially moves to York.
June 14-18 2021 – ASM annual meeting, virtual is unusual but interesting
May 11, 2021 – a virtual lecture in Brazil… wish I was really there!
April 19, 2021 – great radio interview on Top of Mind
April 17, 2021 – lab paper 64 goes to Rosie, Alice and Jake for marine fishing Myotis and mercury exposure.
April 15, 2021 – lab paper 63 goes to Rosie and her leeches.
April 6th, 2021 – Welcome to airDNA! https://youtu.be/YhUPIx4fiGc
April 6th, 2021 – the press keeps going on airDNA. Some of the best are from TechnologyNetworks, AcademicTimes, Gismodo and Verietyinfo
April 5th, 2021 – lab paper 62 published – primates, well done Amanda
March 31, 2021 – airDNA hits the press… one of our coolest productions. Press goes a bit mad! 300 teets, 150 articles in the press etc. What a week!
February 23rd, 2021 – Well done Dr. Omar, my longest serving lab member flies the roost
February 22nd, 2021 – A bit of lab press from Science Magazine – dung beetles as DNA detectors here
February 18, 2021 – Lab paper 61 Goes to Lauren Gallant!
February 12, 2021 – Lab paper 60 Goes to Beth and Joanne!
October 3, 2020 – Lab paper 59 Goes to Roberto!
September 30, 2020 – Lab paper 58 Goes to Edith and parasite food webs
September 20, 2020 – Lab paper 57 Goes to Dave! Way to go.
September 1, 2020 – Lab paper 56 accepted! Another pseudo paleo paper
July 16, 2020 – New grant awarded.
July 7, 2020 – Lab paper 54 accepted and goes to Andy Carr – that’s two in two days…. come on reviewers!
July 6, 2020 – Lab paper 53 accepted and goes to Angela way over in Singapore!
May 27, 2020 – Congratulations Alejandro on your successful field work travel grant (for when we can travel again)
April 20, 2020 – Congratulations Hernani. Lab paper 53 is yours. Nice to see your papers emerge! Roll the science out, even during lockdown!
February 26, 2020 – Congratulations future Dr. Jo! accepted to the next doctoral training programme
February 5, 2020 – Congratulations Jane on your grant – lots of eDNA sequencing in your future!
January 24th, 2020 – The Smithsonian has picked up the ancient bat guano story here
November 18, 2019 – New paper in Paleo 3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018219308077
October 14, 2019 – Lab Paper 52 accepted with minor revisions… ooo our first paleo paper… sort of…
October 10, 2019 – New grant funded with new partner institutions. Cool projects are arriving in the lab in some truly applied sciences.
September 30, 2019 – Welcome to the lab Elizabeth starting an UG project on publication trends and biases.
September 18, 2019 – Lab paper: Chemical characterisation of potential pheromones from the shoulder gland of the Northern yellow-shouldered-bat, Sturnira parvidens (Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae). Available on Peer J.
August 1, 2019 – Congratulations Jane on the successful application for funding for your thames study!
July 25, 2019 – Congratulations Kim, Rosie and Dave… newly minted PhDs from the lab.
July 15, 2019 – Congratulations Dr. Tiago Teixeira on the approval of your final thesis corrections!
June 3, 2019 – Lab paper number 51 accepted with minor corrections!
May 10, 2019 – Congratulations Rosie on the acceptance of your paper – lab paper number 50 is yours!
March 2019 – Lab paper: Molecular diet analysis finds an insectivorous desert bat community dominated by resource sharing despite diverse echolocation and foraging strategies. In print in Ecology and Evolution
February 2019 – Congratulations Dr. Dave Hemprich-Bennett on the approval of your final thesis corrections!
January 2019 – Lab paper: Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: How should we convert sequence reads to dietary data? In print in Molecular Ecology
January 2019 – Lab paper: Approaches to integrating genetic data into ecological networks. In print in Molecular Ecology
January 2019 – Lab paper: DNA metabarcoding reveals changes in the contents of carnivorous plants along an elevation gradient. In print in Molecular Ecology
January 2019 – Lab paper: Using metabarcoding to compare the suitability of two blood‐feeding leech species for sampling mammalian diversity in North Borneo. In print in Molecular Ecology Resources
January 2019…. Wow…. in our lab news started in 2019… must have been dull before then????