Contact details
Office 310 Castle Street, room 153
Email gert-jan.jeunen@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
- BSc Hasselt University (Belgium)
- MSc Ghent University (Belgium); Université de Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC; France); Universidad de Oviedo (Spain)
- PhD Otago University
Research interests
- Environmental DNA metabarcoding
- Historical and ancient DNA
Postgraduate students
- Joseph Muldoon, MSc: Investigating the effects of historical spatial distributions of fish in the Indo-Pacific through eDNA obtained from museum-stored sponges
- Ella Dewar, MSc: Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of New Zealand's freshwater Porifera
- Taylor Allan, MSc: Uncovering nitrogen cycling processes in estuaries through eDNA metabarcoding
- Jonika Edgecombe, PhD: Early detection of marine NIS through a novel molecular toolbox
- Michelle Liddy, PhD: Marine sponges as natural eDNA accumulators
- Ryan Easton, PhD: Investigating the impact of barriers on New Zealand's freshwater fish through electrofishing and eDNA analysis
- Benjamin Duran-Vinet, PhD: CRISPR-Cas-based biomonitoring for marine environments