November 30, 2021: More than 170 people from 25 countries participated in the first edition of “Protist eDNA – Bio-informatics workshop”, organized in the context of the FORESTAT project (FORaminifera of ESTuaries of the ATlantic margin) by our researcher Dr. Enrique Lara (RJB-CSIC) and colleagues, last week. This two-days bioinformatics workshop addressed a wide audience interested in protist ecology, but it also included a more specialized content designed for scientists performing eDNA analyses. Stay tuned for future editions in which we will continue to discuss the most recent developments in protist metabarcoding.