It’s been another busy month, with plenty of fieldwork underway, some new faces and some nice new outputs! Read below for all of the recent updates, some other things we’d like to share and a foraging logic puzzle to keep you busy! New FERGers We have the immense pleasure of welcoming Eva Benkhoff to ourContinueContinue reading “FERG News June 2025”
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FERG News May 2025
It’s been a busy month, with all sorts of great things going on and starting up, so we thought it might be fun to share some of this through a new monthly news post! With plenty of us out in the field, prepping for fieldwork, busy in the lab or out disseminating our research, readContinueContinue reading “FERG News May 2025”
Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design
This was originally posted on Biocoenosis, a blog jointly run by Jordan and FERG collaborator Max Tercel. If you want a short synopsis on metabarcoding (and dietary metabarcoding more specifically), plough on, but if you’re here for some tips and tricks, scroll down to the PCR primer design subheading. Now more than ever, PCR hasContinueContinue reading “Primer time: a rollercoaster ride through metabarcoding PCR primer design”
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