environmental DNA
Project Description and Aims
The emerging field of eDNA targets the traces animals leave in the environment and leverages high-throughput sequencing technologies to generate sequence information about hosts and microbes at local scales. The eDNA toolkit we employ has already revealed insights about species distributions and unknown trophic links between species and has the potential to contribute to biodiversity monitoring efforts and disease ecology. We are excited about building capacities in Uganda to deploy these tools, again working closely with the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
