Sophie von der Heyden

Molecular Ecologist working on #Africa #marine #freshwater #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #eDNA #seagrass #capacitybuilding @ProjectSeaStore ScienceMum!

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Oh my word, I am so excited! I actually managed to create a short movie (my first attempt, please excuse dodgy editing). So here it is, a movie about our #eDNA work in the #Okavango Delta! https://t.co/YJT8oyeSTX

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Good luck little guys!

[Dr Andrew Digby @takapodigs]

Tonight there are #kakapo in the forest of the North Island of Aotearoa for the first time in over a century. We released four into Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain today. #conservation #returnofthekakapo

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

This is amazing Luiz and so well deserved! Excellent and relevant research too!

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Wow, seeing my photo in the cover of @Nature is something else!

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

This is what happens when heading off on leave… some cute ants build a new home under your phone… and eat the electrics at the same time. Welcome
Back to work!!

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Good luck Gina!!!

[Gina Ziervogel @GinaZiervogel]

First day in the office as Director of ACDI - African Climate and Development Initiative @ACDI_UCT - looking forward to this new chapter; urgent work that requires building relations and systemic understanding @AXAResearchFund @UCT_news @HomewardBound16 @cdknetwork

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Thank you for all your amazing @SASAqS_society coverage and the support for our students! Really appreciated!

[Hannes Erasmus🇿🇦🇩🇪 @HannesErasmus11]

@NWU_WRG students did not only dominate in numbers but also at winning prices @SASAqS_society gala dinner. Congrats to all the winners, especially to @KatieMWatson_ & Bianca Boshoff on winning the best presentation and poster. @NWU_UESM @NicoJSmit1 @WepenerVictor @vonderHeydenlab

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

So cool to see the lab we represented. Thanks for flying the flag so brilliantly! #GoTeam #seagrass #awesomescience

[Katie Watson @KatieMWatson_]

Fantastic day @SASAqS_society with the @vonderHeydenlab! 🌱 great feedback on my seagrass restoration work as part of @ProjectSeaStore!
@bio_za #teamseagrass #seagrassrestoration

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Doing the rounds again in #SouthAfrica. Careful how you do it out there, so you don’t increase your risk of cancer and strokes 🤣🤣🤣

[Lord Abraham Mutai @ItsMutai]

SOUTH AFRICA health minister banned doggy style during sex says the style causes cancer and stroke.

[ProjectSeastore @ProjectSeaStore]

Frederick (and all of us) is super excited to publish his first research paper on restoration trials of #Zostera #capensis in South Africa. An important contribution to help us in our efforts to better understand #seagrass #restoration in #SouthAfrica. https://t.co/vjBpkMORNU

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Sorry Jon, that’s really hard!!!

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Was super excited to be there and enjoyed every minute. Thank you for the invite, the great feedback and come and visit #SouthAfrica to see what other #eDNA research we are up to!

[The eDNA Society @eDNA_Society]

Beginning with thanks to her colleagues💙, Dr Sophie von der Heyden talked about her big #eDNA survey on marine biodiversity in South Africa
#edna2023japan

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Goodbye #edna2023japan it was amazing! Great science, wonderful people and even an art class 😂Much more than I ever expected and really excited to be doing more #eDNA research!

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Bianca happily sorting through what feels like a million sediment samples looking for #microplastics. Despite getting very dirty in the process, she is still smiling. Bianca’s MSc fits into @ProjectSeaStore, focussing on restoration and conservation of #seagrass in #SouthAfrica

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Absolutely the Propellerheads. History Repeating, and the whole of DecksandDrumsandRockandRoll, were highlights of 1998! First year university will never be the same again!

[Britpop Memories @Britpopmemories]

Let's go gigging...

If you could've only chosen one of these gigs to attend 25 years ago which would you have gone to?

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Loved this journey with all these fabulous colleagues from across the globe and making #eDNA science available to all…

[Fanny Douvere @Fdouvere]

We're honoured to work with some of the world's leading eDNA, climate & microbiology experts who guide the @UNESCO eDNA expeditions across 25 marine #WorldHeritage sites & help ensure we make available the latest science & innovation

[National Research Foundation of South Africa @NRF_News]

Attention NRF-funded doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. Would you like the opportunity to attend the 2024 Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) in Singapore? Please submit your nominations to the NRF of South Africa. (Instructions in the next Tweet)

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

@HeathBeckett did a much better at advertising this paper than I did (in reference to an earlier tweet I deleted). He is also amazing to work with and super cool to have one ouf our first papers for the @ClimateSchoolSU...

[Heath Beckett @HeathBeckett]

A slight departure from fire and savanna ecology, here's our paper on African Penguins. Investigating the changes in potential nesting habitats off the coast of Southern Africa over the last 22 000 years

@ClimateSchoolSU @vonderHeydenlab @MatiesResearch

https://t.co/QVsvFvJCaX

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Started an enduring love of Jarvis Cocker and it remains a superb collection of music…

[daily pulp @pulptoday]

The very first Pulp album, It, turns 40 today!!! 40 years ago, pulp released their first material at Red Rhino, and the rest is history... 🎉🎉🎉 #pulp2023

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

These are very sad news!

[Louis Bernatchez @LouBernatchez]

Losing another giant in the field and good friend… sad…

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

Was very happy to be asked to contribute a journal club article for @NatRevGenet to highlight a paper that made a difference in marine phytogeography. For me it was work by Paul Barber from 2002 - A marine Wallace’s line?

[Nature Reviews Genetics @NatureRevGenet]

Disentangling population structure in marine species https://t.co/CgYpnt9fi1 #JournalClub by @vonderHeydenlab @StellenboschUni #PopulationGenetics #PopGen

[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

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[Sophie von der Heyden @vonderHeydenlab]

1/2 Congratulations to all the Honours students in our lab, who brilliantly gave their project proposals last week. We all look forward to working with you on your #BlueCarbon #eDNA #phylogenetics #micropropagation #restoration #genomics #seagrass #fishes in #Africa projects!