Eric Capo


Academic Positions

Education

Grants

2023: Starting grant funded by the Swedish Research Council VR (grant 2023-03504). Gasping for Breath: Exploring the consequences of coastal deoxygenation on microbial processes and ecosystem services. Applicant : E Capo. 4 MSEK (342,000 €).

2023: Kempe post-doctoral fellowship. Applicant : E Capo & E Björn. 672 kSEK (59,000 €)

2023: Starting grant from Umeå University associated to the Assistant Professor position. Applicant : E Capo. 600 kSEK (55,000 €)

2022: Research grant funded by the Swedish Research Council VR (740731-1955), Evolution and biogeography of the brackish microbiome. Applicant: A. Andersson (E Capo as collaborator, WP3). 4 MSEK (380,000 €)

2022: Research grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Synergia, CRSII5_213522). Deep biosphere-geosphere interactions at the top of the world (DIGESTED): An interdisciplinary approach to interpret a Myr climate record from lake Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) Applicant: H Vogel (E Capo as collaborator, WP4). 2 977 636 CHF (2,960,000 €)

2022: Research grant funded by Leading Academy in Marine and Environment Pollution Research at Ehime University (Lamer fund). Development of methodology using environmental DNA as a tool for assessing long-term plankton dynamics. Applicant: N Tsugeki. (E Capo as collaborator). 240,000 yens (1,750 €)

2021: ICM Severo Ochoa post-doc fellowship (Spain). Unveiling the role of Hg-cycling microorganisms in the global ocean. Applicant: E Capo. 88,000 €

2021: Research grant funded by Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development Formas. Methylmercury formation in coastal seas: understanding risks associated with permanent and temporary oxygen deficiency. Lead applicant: E Björn (E Capo as co-applicant). 3 MSEK (290,000 €)

2021: Research grant (2021-2024) funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Development of new method for reconstructing microorganisms using sedimentary DNA to assess the effect of global warming measures on lake ecosystems. Applicant: N Tsugeki. (E Capo as collaborator). 3,200,000 yen (10,700 €)

2020: Research grant funded by the Ecochange research program: Adapted or replaced? Understanding the freshwater-to-brackish transition of the Baltic Sea microbiome by ancient DNA analysis. Applicants: E Capo & AF Andersson. 126 kSEK (12,000 €)

2020: Research grant funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Reconstruction of host and parasite during the past century in Lake Biwa by using paleolimnological analysis. Applicant: N Tsugeki (E Capo as collaborator). 900,000 yen (6,980 €)

2019: Research grant funded by Anna-Greta and Holger Crafoord’s Research Grant in Biosciences in the field of Aquatic microbial ecology. A key to unravel lake history from the sedimentary black box : Sedimentary DNA to reconstruct long-term dynamics of aquatic microbial communities. Applicant: E Capo. 10,600 €

Meeting organization

Co-chair of session 'Studying the long-term dynamic of freshwater ecosystems through sedimentary DNA research: a potential tool for management and conservation'. SIL2022, 07-10 August 2022, Berlin, Germany

Co-chair of session 'Deciphering past aquatic ecosystem dynamics using sedimentary ancient DNA'. JASM2022, 14-20 May 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Co-chair of session CT11 ''Mercury transformations in marine ecosystems'. OSM2022, 27 Feb-4 March 2022, Honolulu, HA, USA (virtual)

Co-organizer of the Mini-symposium “Recovering DNA from sedimentary archives”, 4th October 2021, Uppsala, Sweden

Co-organizer of the 1st symposium of the African sedaDNA working group, 9-10th June 2021, virtual

Co-convener of the session BG2.6 'Reconstruction of past ecosystems using sedimentary ancient DNA: Applications, method developments, analytic pipelines and data management'. EGU21 19-30 April 2021, virtual

Seminars and talks

Microbial functional genes recovered with metagenomics from sedimentary archives. Potsdam sedDNA meeting, Potsdam, Germany. 6 June 2023 (keynote speaker)

Applying molecular tools to unravel microbial transformations of mercury in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Workshop Hg-Omics , 25 May 2022, Buchillon, Switzerland (invited speaker)

Environmental-driven changes in the microbial eukaryotic community of Lake Biwa over the last 120 years. JASM2022, 19 May 2022, Grands Rapids, Michigan, USA

Sedimentary DNA to reconstruct past ecosystem changes in lakes and watersheds. Seminar at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canada), 8 March 2022 (invited speaker)

Merging two worlds: application of molecular ecology tools in paleolimnology to study the long-term changes in aquatic microbial communities. Seminar at the Department of Biology, Queen´s University (Canada), 1 March 2022 (invited speaker)

A full-year of trying to recover sediment ancient metagenomes from the Baltic Sea: torn between fun and despair. Seminar at the sedaDNA scientific society, 16 December 2021

Unveiling the role of Hg-cycling microorganisms in the global ocean. Seminar at the Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, 01 December 2021

Applying molecular methods to natural environmental archives to reconstruct past life of aquatic microbial communities. Seminar at the UMR EPOC, University of Bordeaux, 8 November 2021

Applying sedimentary DNA approach to inform about the effects of long-term environmental changes on aquatic microbial communities. Seminar at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham (UK), 25 October 2021 (invited speaker)

Sedimentary DNA as a tool to reconstruct past aquatic microbial life. Seminar at the Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, 13 October 2021

Recovering DNA from aquatic sedimentary archives: towards understanding the long-term consequences of environmental perturbations on ecosystems. Talk at Mangrove Microbiome Initiative Meeting. 13 September 2021 (invited speaker)

Decadal to millennial time series of aquatic microbial communities recovered from sedimentary DNA archives: State-of-the-art, limitations and perspectives, ASLO2021, 22-27 June 2021

Gathering knowledge about Hg-cycling microorganisms by digging into environmental genomic data. Seminar at IVM seminar from SLU Uppsala, 05 May 2021

Unifying the sedaDNA scientific community. EGU General Assembly 2021 - EGU21-4697. 28 April 2021, virtual meeting

The sedaDNA scientific society. GDR French Environmental Genomics “DNA et al. in paleoenvironments”, 08 April 2021

Hg in aquatic environments: Adopting omics to unveil the role of microorganisms in Hg-cycling processes. Seminar at Institute of Marine Sciences ICM-CSIC Barcelona, 08 April 2021

The mercury methylation potential of pelagic redoxclines and oxygen-deficient sediment from the Baltic Sea. Ecochange conference 24-25 November 2020

Using sedaDNA tool to answer unresolved questions in aquatic microbial ecology. sedaDNA cyberinfrastructure. 02 June 2020

Mercury methylation by microbial communities from Baltic Sea waters. Ecochange conference 21-22 November 2019, Kalmar, Sweden

Mercury microbiology in oxygen deficient coastal seas, NENUN10, 25-27 September 2019, Uppsala, Sweden

A glance at the history of aquatic microbial communities: a sedimentary-DNA based metabarcoding approach to characterize 10,000 years records from Swedish mountain lakes, Symposium of Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME) 16, 1-6 September 2019, Potsdam, Germany

Application of environmental DNA analysis to track biodiversity in northern lakes. Seminar at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, 03 April 2019, Umeå University, Sweden

How does climate-driven weather variability impact a lake ecosystem? Tracking changes in microbial communities in a 40-year varved record from an ice-covered boreal lake using sedimentary DNA. IPA-IAL joint meeting 2018, 18-21 June 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

Estimating fish abundance in lakes via environmental DNA analysis. Seminar at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 08 November 2017, Sweden

Sedimentary DNA based-approaches to study regime shifts in lacustrine trophic networks related to anthropogenic and climate pressures: the case of microbial eukaryotic communities. CIRC Symposium, 26-28 September 2017, Abisko, Sweden

Tracking a century of changes in microbial eukaryotic diversity driven by eutrophication and climate warming. 07 Mars 2017, Seminar at Laboratoire d’Ecologie Microbienne, UMR 5557 Lyon, France

Tracking a century of change in lacustrine microbial eukaryotes driven by local and global forcings. ISME16 Symposium. 21-26 August 2016. Montreal, Canada

Response of lacustrine protistan assemblages to climatic and anthropogenic pressures: a paleolimnological view based on sedimentary DNA. Symposium for European Fresh Water Sciences SEFS9, 6 July 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

Paleo-ecological approach of lacustrine microbial diversity. Seminar at EMG Department, Umeå University, 18 February 2015, Umeå, Sweden