Five years of hard work comes down to today...

Time for my internal #PhD defence!

Lets hope I make it out alive 🐸

#eDNA #genetics #SNPs #Bioinvasions

#Chytrid fungus and #ranavirus jeopardize amphibian well-being.

We present a novel duplex #eDNA assay to detect both simultaneously from water samples.

We also show that the presence and density of #invasive #bullfrogs is related to that of chytrid fungus, but not ranavirus, in space and time 🐸

💡 Think carefuly about the analytical choices made when relating #eDNA #concentrations to species #abundance and #density!

⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes

👇 #OA article below

After 3 years of sampling, lab work, bio informatics, statistical analyses and writing, I am very pleased to see the fifth data chapter of my #PhD published in #Heredity!
We combine occurrence records and population #genetics to reveal the €spread dynamics of invasive #bullfrogs! 👽🐸

Heading back to Belgium after a 6 week research stay at the Modelling, Evidence & Policy research Group of #Newcastle University #UK. Looking forward to applying the acquired knowledge on #network theory on the spatial prioritization of #bioinvasion management. 🐸

Spreading #non-native species and human migrations. Superficially similar, but vastly different. We carefully distilled both processes and provide frameworks to support the development of context-specific policies that respect human dignity, and foster cultural diversity.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Super proud to have contributed to this freshly published paper in #BioScience about some critical conceptual and ethical considerations in #bioinvasion science 👽🐸