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  • April 15th, 2026 - A nice new story in Nature about
  • January 8, 2026 - Alejandro Biganzoli-Rangel's paper accepted to BJLS.
  • October 17, 2025 - Prof Clare was given the for contributions to bat research by NASBR.
  • September 18, 2025 - Well done Orianne, paper accepted to Ecography!
  • September 17, 2025 - I gave an in depth interview on "The County, Naturally" with Pamela Stagg on
  • September 1, 2025 - Our lab is profiled in Y-file for being part of a "birder murder mystery" here
  • August 25, 2025 - Steve Burrows published "A Deceit of Lapwings" featuring our lab's research as the solution to a murder
  • June 7, 2025 - Alejandro Maeda-Obregon's paper on the endangered Lake Xochimilco ecosystem or Mexico was accepted.
  • June 2, 2025 - Post doc Dr. Orianne Tournayre has published the first national survey of biodiversity through airborne eDNA
  • May 22, 2025 - Our lab on NPR featuring PhD student Gliselle Marin and Dr. Orianne Tournayre
  • May 21, 2025 - New paper on occupancy modeling iDNA
  • March 20, 2025 - My podcast was written up as a University teaching innovation here
  • March 1, 2025 - Dr. Phil Oelbaum has joined the lab as our newest post doc
  • February 17, 2025 - New paper from Kat Lunn and Nicole Borsato
  • January 10, 2025 - Students in my lab contributed to this paper out today in , see press in , , ,
  • January 6, 2025 - Nicole and Kat (and others) have a paper accepted in PeerJ
  • 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 ""
  • 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
  • July 21, 2024 - Our Annual Field trip to Belize is being featured on NPR. Here is part 1 of the
  • July 17, 2024 - the nature paper is highlighted on I site and in
  • July 17, 2024 - Some of my students and I are co-authors on a paper in
  • May 4th 2024 - Our work profiled in
  • May 2nd 2024 - Our work is profiled in also translated into
  • April 16th, 2024 - Nina's MSc has been awarded a 快播视频 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 in Undark magazine and in
  • 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 , and
  • January 4th, 2024 - The lab eDNA work was featured on the Solve for X podcast
  • 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 and was covered in , , , , , , , , 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-Obreg贸n
  • May 3, 2023 - We've been awarded an NFRF grant to study bees, here comes beeDNA
  • April 26, 2023 - Nina's paper on bat roost monitoring by eDNA goes live
  • March 31, 2023 - we've been awarded an NSERC Alianc C2C grant supported by NatureMetrics
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • July 31, 2022 - our work featured on 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 "" 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
  • January 21st 2022 - Our work featured on US public radio
  • January 16th 2022 - Our work is featured live on .
  • January 14th 2022 - Lap paper 74 goes to Hernani with his paper accepted to Molecular Ecology
  • January 7th 2022 - Our work is featured on Canada's world famous national science show
  • January 6th, 2022 - the Zoo eDNA in the air story goes wild with coverage from NPR, , , , CBC radio , , , , , 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
  • August 11, 2021 - a feature interview on eDNA on the Naked Scientist podcast
  • August 8, 2021 - great coverage in the
  • July 28, 2021 - excellent airDNA coverage in
  • July 23, 2021 - wow great coverage of our pre-print in and
  • July 22, 2021 - wow Genome Canada has funded our project! Here comes
  • 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
  • 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!
  • April 6th, 2021 - the press keeps going on airDNA. Some of the best are from , , and
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    Graduates
  • 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鈥恌eeding leech species for sampling mammalian diversity in North Borneo. In print in Molecular Ecology Resources
  • January 2019.... Wow鈥. in our lab news started in 2019... must have been dull before then????