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News
2024 Science Celebration
On October 12th and 13th, the whole ARGALY team left the lab to go meet the public!
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We participated to the "Fête de la Science", at the Galerie Eurêka, Chambéry, to shed light on eDNA and raise awareness on the urgent need to preserve biodiversity. A fantastic weekend during which we maintained the link between science and society!
October 2024
ARGALY's podcast!
This month, Marielle took the microphone to shine a light on our activities and values in a new episode of the Rouge & Blanc Podcast, dedicated to biodiversity preservation in Savoie Mont-Blanc. A great opportunity to know more about our lab day-to-day life and to learn how to track the alpine wolves thanks to their DNA...
July 2024
Soil workshop
Questioning ourselves individually and collectively about soil services in our everyday life… Big challenge of the Soil Workshop, to which the team participated to get aware of the living world underneath our feet. Together with the Association pour une Agriculture Durable (APAD), we identified the threats weighing on soils and we considered more sustainable solutions to preserve this essential treasure.
Avril 2024
ARGALY is 6 years old!
ARGALY's adventure started in 2017...
8 new employees, a lot of motivating projects that reflect our values (more than 70 in 2023!) and inspiring meetings have marked these few years.
Road to 2024!
December 2023
Pollutec
exhibition 2023
ARGALY took part in the biggest exhibition for innovative environmental solutions in Lyon. Conferences, workshops and discussions between professionals: a great opportunity for us to spread the eDNA tool and speak about metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring and preservation !
October 2023
eDNA symposium
Aurélie BONIN went to Paris on the 28th of September after being invited to a symposium organised by the Académie d'Agriculture de France. Untitled "Environmental DNA and RNA : markers of life in ecosystems", she introduced some examples of eDNA applications in the field of agriculture.
September 2023
XPRIZE Rainforest Competition
Bronze medal for the "Brazilian team", which included Alessia and Pierre!
The results of the international competition, whose goal was to inventory rainforest biodiversity, were announced on November 15th: with 418 taxa listed within 72h, of which 3 potential new species, the University of São Paulo's team won the third price of 500 000$.
November 2024
New training activity
ARGALY has just been referenced as training organisation! We offer 3 trainings that adapt to your skills and needs: environnemental DNA and metabarcoding, bioinformatic analysis, terrestrial and aquatic sampling. Students, researchers, engineers, technicians, etc: don't hesitate to contact us for more information ;)
September 2024
Collaboration
eDNA study in Méditerranée
We are glad to share a project conducted by one of our clients, the ECOSEAS Laboratory of Université Côte d’Azur, freshly published in 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑁𝐴, which aims at exploring the use of eDNA to monitore the fish communities in the Mediterranean sea, and particularly in the protected marine area of Cap Roux. An article to read without further delay!
May 2024
Spring
Biodiversity buzzing
Spring is a crossroads season for fauna and flora: a lot of species go out from hibernation, while others buckle down to reproduction. Species are more active, which means that they leave more DNA traces in their environment. This season is thus particularly opportune for eDNA sampling to spot and inventory birds, reptiles, ungulates, fish or pollinating insects... So get set and go sample!
March 2024
Field demonstration
Eva and Héloïse attended a seminar in Toulouse that aimed to present the technological developments serving the scientific monitoring of protected areas. The technical and ethical potentials of innovative methods for biodiversity assessment were discussed. We also had the chance to do a field demonstration about eDNA sampling protocols !
November 2023
New
scientific publications
We are glad to share with you our latest scientific references:
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Pfendler S, and al. Differential effects of tree species identity on rhizospheric bacterial and fungal community richness and composition across multiple trace element-contaminated sites. Science of the Total Environment, under press.
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Guerrieri A, and al. Local climate modulates the development of soil nematode communities after glacier retreat. Global Change Biology, under press.
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Cantera I, and al. The importance of species addition versus replacement varies over succession in plant communities after glacial retreat. Nature Plants, under press.
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Giachello S, and al. Toward a common set of functional traits for soil protists. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, under press.
October 2023
