Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria
Freshwater ecology | eDNA & eRNA | Environmental monitoring | Community-based monitoring
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Louie Lopez
Key priorities: building networks, creating adaptable eDNA standards, and investing in capacity building in developing countries.
A huge thank you to the two anonymous reviewers whose feedback greatly improved this work. And honestly, I had the best time working on this with my co-authors and labmates. From undergrads to grad students, our research associate, and our supervisor. It was such a fun team to be part of.
(3/3) Big thanks to the @ednacollab.bsky.social (Aiden, Shana, Eily, and Ryan) for making this possible! We also organized a virtual issue spotlighting current eDNA work across Southeast Asia.
New Perspective paper is out! We reviewed how eDNA is currently used for biodiversity monitoring in Southeast Asia and developed recommendations to strengthen its regional application.
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New publication alert! Unikseq 2.0 allows you to identify conserved regions within multiple sequence alignment, thus streamlining the process of primer-probe design for targeted and metabarcoding assay development
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Excited to share our group’s new publication, where we explore how eDNA from water, soil, and air can push the boundaries of biodiversity monitoring. Our perspective is framed around the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
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Our paper is out, focusing on design, validation, and implementation considerations for species-targeted eRNA assays to detect presence and physiological state! Some new ideas to ponder.
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A new paper uses eDNA tools to confirm Chipewyan Prairie First Nations observations of geological changes in Cowper Lake, Alberta following a historical landslide in the 1940s 🔗 tinyurl.com/hcek4jfc
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows!
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Louie Lopez
Environmental RNA (eRNA) is emerging as a promising tool for detecting species presence and physiological condition, with its broader adoption expected to benefit from continued refinement of assay d...
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows! Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...
