Help shape a European Society for Environmental Omics (ESEO)
At the AquaEcOmics meeting in Evian (March, 2025), an international group of 35 experts discussed the future of regular European meetings and collaborative efforts in the field of eDNA and environmental omics. This culminated in requests for the formation of a formal society, similar to the eDNA Society or Southern environmental DNA Society.
The core group driving these efforts believe that such a society should aim to unify environmental omics "stakeholders" across all ecosystems and target organisms, foster international collaboration, and bridge the gap between science and policy through knowledge exchange, standardisation, and engagement. By creating a centralised platform for these efforts, the European Society for Environmental Omics, ESEO, will promote integration, capacity building, and the implementation of global best practices in close exchange with other societies.
ESEO will aim to bring people from academia, industry and regulatory agencies together around the development and implementation of environmental omics methods. In this capacity it will complement the currently existing landscape of societies and improve connections between research disciplines and countries. While the geographic focus will be on Europe, membership is open to anyone!
To gauge interest for the formation of this society on a pan-European and interdisciplinary scale and collect further ideas on the scope, we invite you to answer some questions, using the link below, until 20th May 2025.