Endorsed Programme of the UN Ocean Decade that will monitor, research and understand life in the sea by analyzing its biomolecules. Led by @pogo-ocean.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/obonocean
Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON)
The latest OBON newsletter is now online - packed with news/updates, including grants/funding ops, working group reports, new project intro, dates for the #eDNA diary, and lots more.
Read at: mailchi.mp/obon-ocean/o...
Great OBON oral session this morning at #OSM26 - thanks to everyone who joined us!
Find out about even more #eDNA observing projects at the Poster session this afternoon: OT44F
Date: Thursday, 26 February 2026
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Location: Hall 4 (Poster Hall) (Scottish Event Campus)
There will be a session on Biomolecular observations and eDNA ⤵️
Excited to share our pre-print developing and validating a sunflower star eDNA assay!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join this week's #MBON #NetworkingFriday:
POGO CEO, Sophie Seeyave, will moderate a session on Gulf #eDNA network.
📆 12 June 2026, 1:00 PM UTC
➡️https://www.aircentre.org/marine-biodiversity-networking-friday-the-gulf-edna-network-building-regional-connections-for-biodiversity-science-and-monitoring/
We've just announced the 4 successful projects in the OBON-SAIGe Microgrant Awards, supported by @minderoo.bsky.social
Congrats to Cawthron Institute, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural Uni, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research & Universiti Malaya, and Hasanuddin Uni
Full details at bit.ly/SAIGe-2
mailchi.mp/4d9f726a66e6...
(In case previous link doesn't work)
The latest @pogo-ocean.bsky.social newsletter includes a report on the OBON oral and poster sessions during #OSM26 in Glasgow last month ⤵️
mailchi.mp/pogo-ocean/p...
Call for EoIs to apply for the Phase II OBON-SAIGe Microgrants:
- aim to accelerate #eDNA monitoring
- 1-year projects based in Western Pacific region
- Priority for OBON community
Full details at: mailchi.mp/obon-ocean/o...
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#OpenData are essential if we want marine science to be transparent, comparable, and usable for real-world decision-making.
That’s why EMBRC’s EMO BON DNA-based datasets are fully #FAIR and available to all
🔗 Discover more and access the data: https://swll.to/d2RZK9
@embrcspain.bsky.social
We are pleased to share the recipients of the OBON-SAIGe Microgrants, supported by Minderoo Foundation, to advance environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring and biomolecular ocean observation.
The biennial POGO-27 Science Meeting will take place from 22-26 February 2027, hosted by Invemar in Santa Marta, Colombia. Pre-registration is now open, and accepting applications until 17 July 2026.
Find out more about the meeting's themes and how to attend at: pogo-ocean.org/about/pogo-m...
This quarter's POGO Newsletter went out a few days later than usual, to allow us to include reports from the Secretariat's recent trip to Glasgow, where the 2nd POGO Directors' Meeting was held held adjacent to #OSM26.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/pogo-ocean/p...
