2025
Journal - Research Article
von Ammon, U., Jeunen, G.-J., Laroche, O., Pochon, X., Gemmell, N. J., Stanton, J.-A. L., & Zaiko, A. (2025). Investigating passive eDNA samplers and submergence times for marine surveillance. PeerJ, 13, e19043. doi: 10.7717/peerj.19043
Scriver, M., Zaiko, A., Pochon, X., Stanton, J.-A. L., Belonovich, O., Jeunen, G.-J., … Gemmell, N. J., & von Ammon, U. (2025). Biodiversity monitoring in remote marine environments: Advancing environmental DNA/RNA sampling workflows. Marine Environmental Research, 206, 107041. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107041
Journal - Research Other
Kardailsky, A., Durán-Vinet, B., Nester, G., Ayad, M. E., Raes, E. J., Jeunen, G.-J., Miller, A. K., … Bayer, P. E. (2025). Monitoring the land and sea: Enhancing efficiency through CRISPR-Cas driven depletion and enrichment of environmental DNA. CRISPR Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2024.0050
2024
Journal - Research Article
Bennington, S. M., Bourke, S. D., Wilkinson, S. P., Englebert, N., Bond, D. M., Jeunen, G.-J., Dawson, S., Slooten, E., Dillingham, P. W., Rayment, W. J., & Alexander, A. (2024). New insights into the population structure of Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) revealed using environmental DNA. Environmental DNA, 6, e70024. doi: 10.1002/edn3.70024
Jeunen, G.-J., Mills, S., Lamare, M., Duffy, G. A., Knapp, M., Stanton, J.-A. L., … Treece, J., Ferreira, S., Durán-Vinet, B., Zavodna, M., & Gemmell, N. J. (2024). Unlocking Antarctic molecular time-capsules: Recovering historical environmental DNA from museum-preserved sponges. Molecular Ecology Resources. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.14001
Jeunen, G.-J., Mills, S., Mariani, S., Treece, J., Ferreira, S., Stanton, J.-A. L., Durán-Vinet, B., Duffy, G. A., Gemmell, N. J., & Lamare, M. (2024). Streamlining large-scale oceanic biomonitoring using passive eDNA samplers integrated into vessel's continuous pump underway seawater systems. Science of the Total Environment, 946, 174354. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174354
Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M., Devine, J., Mariani, S., Mills, S., Treece, J., Ferreira, S., & Gemmell, N. J. (2024). Characterizing Antarctic fish assemblages using eDNA obtained from marine sponge bycatch specimens. Reviews in Fish Biology & Fisheries, 34, 221-238. doi: 10.1007/s11160-023-09805-3
Journal - Research Other
Seymour, M., Guibert, I., Jeunen, G.-J., Hellström, M., Leray, M., Elbrect, V., … Moffitt, J., … Zhao, M. (2024). The First International eDNA Workshop in Hong Kong: A beginner's guide for the next-generation eDNA researcher. Environmental DNA, 6, e552. doi: 10.1002/edn3.552
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Dewar, E., Jeunen, G.-J., & Kenny, N. (2024, August). Under-appreciated and overlooked: Mapping the identity, molecular diversity and eDNA context of New Zealand's freshwater sponge species. Verbal presentation at the BMS Postgraduate Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2023
Journal - Research Article
Urban, L., Miller, A. K., Eason, D., Vercoe, D., Shaffer, M., Wilkinson, S. P., Jeunen, G.-J., Gemmell, N. J., & Digby, A. (2023). Non-invasive real-time genomic monitoring of the critically endangered kākāpō. eLIFE, 12, RP84553. doi: 10.7554/eLife.84553
Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M., Cummings, V., Treece, J., Ferreira, S., Massuger, J., … Gemmell, N. (2023). Unveiling the hidden diversity of marine eukaryotes in the Ross Sea: A comparative analysis of seawater and sponge eDNA surveys. Environmental DNA. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/edn3.500
Olmedo-Rojas, P., Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M., Turnbull, J., Terauds, A., Gemmell, N., & Fraser, C. I. (2023). Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: A case study in Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 35(1), 15-30. doi: 10.1017/S0954102022000384
Adams, C. I. M., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Bagnaro, A., Currie, K., Hepburn, C., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA metabarcoding describes biodiversity across marine gradients. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad017. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsad017
Munk, P., Brinch, B., Møller, F. D., Petersen, T. N., Hendriksen, R. S., Seyfarth, A. M., … Global Sewage Surveillance Consortium, including Jeunen, G.-J., Gemmell, N., Chambers, S. T., … Aarestrup, F. M. (2023). Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7251. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34312-7
Jeunen, G.-J., Cane, J. S., Ferreira, S., Strano, F., von Ammon, U., Cross, H., Day, R., … Ellis, K., Urban, L., Pearson, N., Olmedo-Rojas, P., Kardailsky, A., Gemmell, N. J., & Lamare, M. (2023). Assessing the utility of marine filter feeders for environmental DNA (eDNA) biodiversity monitoring. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23, 771-786. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13754
Jeunen, G.-J., Dowle, E., Edgecombe, J., von Ammon, U., Gemmell, N. J., & Cross, H. (2023). CRABS: A software program to generate curated reference databases for metabarcoding sequencing data. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23, 725-738. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13741
Adams, C. I. M., Hepburn, C., Jeunen, G.-J., Cross, H., Taylor, H. R., Gemmell, N. J., … Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA reflects common haplotypic variation. Environmental DNA, 5, 906-919. doi: 10.1002/edn3.352
Journal - Research Other
Durán-Vinet, B., Araya-Castro, K., Zaiko, A., Pochon, X., Wood, S. A., Stanton, J.-A. L., Jeunen, G.-J., … Kardailsky, A., … Gemmell, N. J. (2023). CRISPR-Cas-based biomonitoring for marine environments: Toward CRISPR RNA design optimization via deep learning. CRISPR Journal, 6(4), 316-324. doi: 10.1089/crispr.2023.0019
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Durán-Vinet, B., Jeunen, G.-J., Stanton, J.-A. L., Zaiko, A., Pochon, X., & Gemmell, N. (2023). CORSAIR-Dx: A CRISPR-Cas13a-based approach for environmental DNA biomonitoring of invasive species from water. Proceedings of the Genetics Otago (GO) Annual Symposium & Workshops. Retrieved from https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/go
Kardailsky, A., Dowle, E., Matthaei, C., Gemmell, N., & Jeunen, G.-J. (2023). Biomonitoring of freshwater streams using bulk eDNA and CRISPR-Cas enrichment. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
van Os, M., Cross, H., Kardailsky, O., Jeunen, G.-J., Collins, C., McDonald, K., Kinaston, R., Vlok, M., Walter, R., Cook, G., Aung, H. L., Matisoo-Smith, L., Buckley, H., & Knapp, M. (2023). The conundrum of related taxa: Detection and authentication of pathogen DNA in bioarchaeological samples from the Pacific. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Jeunen, G.-J., Cane, J., Lamare, M., & Gemmell, N. (2023). Biodiversity monitoring through environmental DNA obtained from filter-feeding organisms. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Edgecombe, J., Keeler-May, G., Zaiko, A., Pochon, X., Stanton, J.-A. L., Treece, J., Rand, C., Jeunen, G.-J., Hepburn, C., & Gemmell, N. (2023). A targeted eDNA approach to detect and quantify Undaria pinnatifida. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Moffitt, J., Jeunen, G.-J., Ferreira, S., Gemmell, N., Fraser, C., Barnes, D., … Lamare, M. (2023). A snapshot into future warming: In situ warming drives big changes in Benthic communities. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Adams, C., Hepburn, C., Cross, H., Taylor, H., Gemmell, N., Bunce, M., Jeunen, G.-J., & Knapp, M. (2023). Environmental DNA reflects common genetic variation. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
2022
Journal - Research Article
Jeunen, G.-J., von Ammon, U., Cross, H., Ferreira, S., Lamare, M., Day, R., Treece, J., … Gemmell, N. J., & Stanton, J.-A. L. (2022). Moving environmental DNA (eDNA) technologies from benchtop to the field using passive sampling and PDQeX extraction. Environmental DNA, 4, 1420-1433. doi: 10.1002/edn3.356
Jeunen, G.-J., Lipinskaya, T., Gajduchenko, H., Golovenchik, V., Moroz, M., Rizevsky, V., … Gemmell, N. J. (2022). Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding surveys show evidence of non-indigenous freshwater species invasion to new parts of Eastern Europe. Metabarcoding & Metagenomics, 6, 171-186. doi: 10.3897/mbmg.6.e68575
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Edgecombe, J., Zaiko, A., Pochon, X., Stanton, J.-A. L., Jeunen, G.-J., & Gemmell, N. (2022). Point-of-need molecular detection techniques and engagement in citizen-based surveillance. In A. Finigan, R. Richards & P. Vakaoti (Eds.), Proceedings of the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium: Pacific Voices XIX. (pp. 11). Dunedin, New Zealand: Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16237
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Kardailsky, A., Jeunen, G. J., Matthaei, C. D., Gemmell, N., & Dowel, E. (2022, August-September). Improving abundance estimates in metabarcoding analyses through CRISPR-Cas enrichment. Poster session presented at the 31st Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting (QMB), Queenstown, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Jeunen, G.-J., von Ammon, U., Cross, H., Ferreira, S., Lamare, M., Day, R., Treece, J., … Gemmell, N. J., & Stanton, J.-A. L. (2022, August-September). Moving environmental DNA (eDNA) technologies from benchtop to the field using passive sampling and PDQeX extraction. Verbal presentation at the 31st Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting (QMB), Queenstown, New Zealand.
Jeunen, G.-J., Cane, J., Lamare, M., & Gemmell, N. J. (2022, August-September). Squeezing out ecological insights from contemporary and historic sponge borne eDNA. Verbal presentation at the 31st Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting (QMB), Queenstown, New Zealand.
2021
Journal - Research Article
Bowers, H. A., Pochon, X., von Ammon, U., Gemmell, N., Stanton, J.-A. L., Jeunen, G. J., … Zaiko, A. (2021). Towards the optimization of eDNA/eRNA sampling technologies for marine biosecurity surveillance. Water, 13(8), 1113. doi: 10.3390/w13081113
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Luu, S., Matisoo-Smith, E., Summerhayes, G. R., Cross, H., & Jeunen, G.-J. (2021). Diving into the bone scrapheap: Ancient DNA metabarcoding of holocene zooarchaeological remains in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Proceedings of the Australasian Research Cluster for Archaeological Science (ARCAS) Virtual Conference: From Micro to Macro: Exploring the Big Picture in Archaeology. Retrieved from http://arcas.org.au
Olmedo-Rojas, P., Jeunen, G.-J., McGaughran, A., Terauds, A., Lamare, M., Gemmell, N., & Fraser, C. (2021). Environmental drivers of diversity in Antarctic terrestrial plants and animals: Using genomic approaches to discover broad-scale patterns. Proceedings of the New Zealand Antarctic Science Conference: Connecting through change. (pp. 134-135). Retrieved from https://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/nzasc21
2020
Journal - Research Article
Nieuwenhuijse, D. F., Oude Munnink, B. B., Phan, M. V. T., the Global Sewage Surveillance project consortium, including Jeunen, G.-J., Munk, P., … Koopmans, M. P. G. (2020). Setting a baseline for global urban virome surveillance in sewage. Scientific Reports, 10, 13748. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69869-0
Ferreira, S., Ashby, R., Jeunen, G.-J., Rutherford, K., Collins, C., Todd, E. V., & Gemmell, N. J. (2020). DNA from mollusc shell: A valuable and underutilised substrate for genetic analyses. PeerJ, 8, e9420. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9420
Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M. D., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Taylor, H. R., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2020). Water stratification in the marine biome restricts vertical environmental DNA (eDNA) signal dispersal. Environmental DNA, 2(1), 99-111. doi: 10.1002/edn3.49
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Olmedo-Rojas, P., Jeunen, G.-J., McGaughran, A., Terauds, A., Lamare, M., & Gemmell, N. (2020). Environmental drivers of diversity in Antarctic terrestrial plants and animals: Using genomic approaches to discover broad-scale patterns. Proceedings of the XXXVI Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) 9th Open Science Conference: Antarctic Science: Global Connections. 398. Retrieved from https://www.scar2020.org
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Jeunen, G.-J., Urban, L., Lewis, R., Knapp, M., Lamare, M., Rayment, W., Dawson, S., & Gemmell, N. (2020). Marine environmental DNA (eDNA) for biodiversity assessments: A one-to-one comparison between eDNA and baited remote underwater video (BRUV) surveys. Authorea. doi: 10.22541/au.160278512.26241559/v1
2019
Journal - Research Article
Hendriksen, R. S., Munk, P., Njage, P., van Bunnik, B., McNally, L., Lukjancenko, O., … The Global Sewage Surveillance project consortium, including Jeunen, G.-J., Gemmell, N., … Aarestrup, F. M. (2019). Global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance based on metagenomics analyses of urban sewage. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1124. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08853-3
Adams, C. I. M., Knapp, M., Gemmell, N. J., Jeunen, G.-J., Bunce, M., Lamare, M. D., & Taylor, H. R. (2019). Beyond biodiversity: Can environmental DNA (eDNA) cut it as a population genetics tool? Gene, 10(3), 192. doi: 10.3390/genes10030192
Jeunen, G.-J., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Taylor, H. R., Lamare, M. D., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019). Species‐level biodiversity assessment using marine environmental DNA metabarcoding requires protocol optimization and standardization. Ecology & Evolution, 9, 1323-1335. doi: 10.1002/ece3.4843
Oberacker, P., Stepper, P., Bond, D. M., Höhn, S., Focken, J., Meyer, V., … Sugrue, V. J., Jeunen, G.-J., Moser, T., … Hore, T. A., & Jurkowski, T. P. (2019). Bio-On-Magnetic-Beads (BOMB): Open platform for high-throughput nucleic acid extraction and manipulation. PLoS Biology, 17(1), e3000107. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000107
Jeunen, G.-J., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Lamare, M. D., Taylor, H. R., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019). Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding reveals strong discrimination among diverse marine habitats connected by water movement. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, 426-438. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12982
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Lipinskaya, T., Jeunen, G.-J., Gajduchenko, H., Golovenchik, V., Semenchenko, V., & Gemmell, N. (2019). Environmental DNA metabarcoding enables early detection of non-indigenous aquatic invertebrates and fish in Belarussian rivers. Genome, 62(6), (pp. 399-400). doi: 10.1139/gen-2019-0083
Adams, C. I. M., Jeunen, G. J., & Knapp, M. (2019). Can haplotypes be recovered from environmental DNA? Integrative & Comparative Biology, 59(Suppl. 1), (pp. E262). doi: 10.1093/icb/icz004
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Alexander, A., Constantine, R., Roe, W., Baker, C. S., Heimeier, D., Hamner, R. M., … Jeunen, G.-J., & Gemmell, N. (2019, August-September). Hologenomics for conservation: A first test of utility using New Zealand's endemic Māui and Hector's dolphins. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Knapp, M., McDonald, S. K., Buckley, H., Kardailsky, O., Aung, H. L., Cross, H., Jeunen, G.-J., Matisoo-Smith, E., Walter, R., & Cook, G. M. (2019, August-September). Origin and evolution of tuberculosis in New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.
2018
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Adams, C. I. M.-c., Jeunen, G. J., & Knapp, M. (2018). Can environmental DNA reveal mitochondrial diversity? Proceedings of the Society for Conservation Biology 5th Oceania Congress: Conservation in a Changing World. (pp. 85). Retrieved from http://wellington2018.scboceania.org
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Adams, C. I. M., Jeunen, G., & Knapp, M. (2018, August). Detecting population-level marine diversity with environmental DNA methodology. Poster session presented at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Jeunen, G.-J. (2018). Evaluating environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding as a method for monitoring biodiversity in marine ecosystems (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/8347
2017
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Jeunen, G.-J., Spencer, H., Lamare, M., Knapp, M., & Gemmell, N. (2017). Environmental DNA monitoring detects habitat-specific species assemblages in the marine ecosystem. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Genetics Society of Australasia (GSA) with the New Zealand Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB). 678. Retrieved from http://gen2017.w.events4you.currinda.com
Contact details