Samantha López Clinton (she/her)
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Samantha López Clinton (she/her)
@sam-siwatlaali.bsky.social
PhD student at CPG @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and Swedish Museum of Natural History | Bioinformatics, metagenomics, bulkDNA, science outreach
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Have a look at the paper, and visit insitulabs.org to learn more about the project and decentralised labs ❤️

👏 👏 to all coauthors. I feel very lucky to be part of such a fantastic project!
In Situ Labs – A Global One Health Laboratory Movement
insitulabs.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Using portable and low-cost sequencing in the field can help address biodiversity barcoding biases seen in many biodiverse regions, where local researchers often rely on foreign institutions to process their samples.
Decoding the Amazon
This project, "Decoding the Amazon," is part of the broader In Situ Laboratory Initiative, dedicated to strengthening wildlife and environmental monitoring…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In this study, we generated over 1,800 publicly available barcodes for Amazonian vertebrate 🦇 and plant 🌿 taxa.

Of these, 30 mammal and 196 bird barcodes were the first ones for that species! 🤯
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is work I was involved in when I moved to the field for some months a few years ago to help set up one of the field genetics labs in Peru with @fieldprojects.org @surroundscience.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Together with the growing number of genome reference assemblies and specialised bioinformatics tools being shared and developed, we believe our study shows how much potential metagenomics approaches hold for #BiodiversityMonitoring and #ConservationGenomics.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌿 The metagenomic data also allowed us to taxonomically classify some of the "by-catch" plant DNA present in the samples, and explore potential plant-arthropod interactions.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🐝 High coverage bulkDNA genomes were further explored by analysing their mitochondrial allele frequency distributions, which indicated the presence of several individuals with different haplotypes within the same sample.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We obtained #bulkDNA genomes from the samples and used them to calculate genome-wide heterozygosities and - by comparing their genomic profile to previously published genomes - confirm their geographic population of origin 🌎.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In this study, we used a comprehensive, custom-built, terabyte-scale #Kraken2 database (also publicly available) to taxonomically classify all reads before mapping to selected references.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🧬 Through shotgun sequencing, metagenomics can help us go from a barcode to a full genome, and unlock insights like genetic diversity and population structure.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🧬 Metabarcoding is exceptionally good at detecting species, especially at low abundance, and it's widespread use means thousands of barcode species references are publicly available.
September 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM