{"id":31349,"date":"2025-05-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/?p=31349"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T14:21:57","slug":"biodiversity-surveillance-a-flagship-edna-project-supported-by-genome-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/biodiversity-surveillance-a-flagship-edna-project-supported-by-genome-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Surveillance: A Flagship eDNA Project Supported by G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of a major investment announced by Genome Canada to strengthen biomonitoring efforts nationwide, G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to support the <strong>BADAS project \u2013 Biodiversity: Assessing eDNA as an Aid to Surveillance<\/strong>, led by Val\u00e9rie Langlois (INRS) and Hugo Asselin (UQAT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project uses <strong>environmental DNA (eDNA)<\/strong>\u2014genetic material left behind by plants and animals in water, soil and air\u2014to rapidly monitor biodiversity across Canadian ecosystems. This cutting-edge approach offers a non-invasive, efficient and scalable tool to detect species, track environmental changes and inform evidence-based environmental decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By working with eDNA end-users and field experts, BADAS aims to build the foundations for routine biodiversity assessments using eDNA in Qu\u00e9bec and across Canada. The project will create a national vision for eDNA implementation, establish international field standards, develop resources for new users, and highlight community-led success stories from Inuit, First Nations, and municipalities to accelerate adoption of this transformative technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is part of the <strong>eDNA Surveillance Program<\/strong>, recently launched by Genome Canada. Read the full press release <a href=\"https:\/\/genomecanada.ca\/edna-surveillance-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/funded-projects\/biodiversity-assessing-edna-as-an-aid-to-surveillance-badas\/\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(202,248,128) 0%,rgb(113,206,126) 17%)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about the BADAS project<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-secondary-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/edna\/\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgb(202,248,128) 0%,rgb(113,206,126) 23%)\">Discover how environmental DNA is transforming biodiversity monitoring<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/eDNA_IMG_20220731_105447.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31344\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a major investment announced by Genome Canada to strengthen biomonitoring efforts nationwide, G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to support the BADAS project \u2013 Biodiversity: Assessing eDNA as an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16690,16751,16739,16752,16702,16708","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31355,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31349\/revisions\/31355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}