CALeDNA summer intern presentations

10-10.05: Welcome & opening remarks
10.05-10.20: Sophia Stewart, UCLA (supervised by Maura Palacios Mejia)

“Community composition and environmental factors in kelp beds”

10.20-10.35: Lauren Man, UCLA (supervised by Maura Palacios Mejia) “Using eDNA to characterize community variation by depth in kelp forests”

10.35-10.50: Lilly Lopez, UCLA (supervised by Maura Palacios Mejia) “Community assessment in the Palos Verdes Peninsula using environmental DNA (eDNA) Metabarcoding”

10.50-11: Break
11-11.15: Ramal Samarasinghe, UCLA (supervised by Meixi Lin)

“An exploration into genomic analysis of lynx species”

11.15-11.30: Halle Bender, UCSC (supervised by Sarah Crump)
“A sedimentary ancient DNA investigation of post-glacial plant and diatom community shifts in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming”

11.30-11.45: Michael Honor Paquia, UCSC (supervised by Anna Worth) “The impact of PCR inhibitors on the extraction of eDNA from volcanic rock”

11.45-12: Questions & closing remarks