
Maïlys PicardCawthron Institute | CI · Coastal and Freshwater
Maïlys Picard
PhD student
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Introduction
I am a PhD student with the University of Waikato but based at the Cawthron Institute (Nelson, NZ). My PhD is part of the Lakes380 project (https://lakes380.com/), where I'm looking at the impact of introduced fish on lake health and associated lake communities. My main focus is sedaDNA from lake sediment cores, using metabarcoding and ddPCR (and a wide range of primers for a multi-trophic overview), supported by some more traditional paleolimnological proxies.
Education
May 2019 - May 2022
September 2016 - June 2018
University of Western Brittany - European Institute for Marine Studies (IUEM)
Field of study
- Marine Biology and Ecology
September 2013 - June 2016
Publications
Publications (3)
Understanding the historical onset of cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater bodies can help identify their potential drivers. Lake sediments are historical archives, containing information on what has occurred in and around lakes over time. Paleolimnology explores these records using a variety of techniques, but choosing the most appropriate method c...
Lakes and their catchments have been subjected to centuries to millennia of exploitation by humans. Efficient monitoring methods are required to promote proactive protection and management. Traditional monitoring is time consuming and expensive, which limits the number of lakes monitored. Lake surface sediments provide a temporally integrated repre...
Harmful algal blooms are a threat to aquatic organisms and coastal ecosystems. Among harmful species, the widespread distributed genus Alexandrium is of global importance. This genus is well-known for the synthesis of paralytic shellfish toxins which are toxic for humans through the consumption of contaminated shellfish. While the effects of Alexan...
Projects
Project (1)
Assessing the impact of invasive species on lake communities using sedimentary environmental DNA