Dear SeDNAs member, Thank you for your support. Our collective mission of advancing best practice eDNA methods and adoption has continued over this last year, and we look forward to reporting on progress and plans. It is also SeDNAs Board member election time, and we will be encouraging nominations inpreparation shortly. We invite you to our online Annual General Meeting (including elections) on Wednesday 18th February 2026, 12.30pm – 1.30pm AEDT VIRTUAL MEETING Please refer

Australian BioCommons and the Southern eDNA Society (SeDNAs) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acknowledge, and work towards addressing the shared infrastructure challenges faced by life science researchers performing eDNA analysis. By collaborating with the community to document the current research landscape, this partnership aims to deploy national-scale bioinformatics infrastructure that supports life science researchers across Australia and New Zealand.

About eDNAqua-Plan eDNAqua-Plan is a three-year Horizon Europe-funded initiative to pave the way for a more harmonised and interoperable landscape for aquatic eDNA data across Europe. Bringing together experts and stakeholders from diverse fields, the project is assessing the current state of the aquatic eDNA data and has proposed an ambitious vision with recommendations for a future eDNA digital landscape that is more efficient, sustainable and has FAIR data principles at it