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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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W. Kelley Thomas

University of New Hampshire

Hubbard Center for Genome Studies

35 Colovos Road
Gregg Hall, 4th Floor
Durham, NH 03824

kelley.thomas@unh.edu

Project List:

Genomic Responses to the Deepwater Horizon event and development of high-throughput biological assays for oil spills

Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)Role: Principal Investigator, Project Data Point of Contact, Outreach Point of Contact

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 2
2019
Sevigny, J. L., Rothenheber, D., Diaz, K. S., Zhang, Y., Agustsson, K., Bergeron, R. D., et al. (2019). Marker genes as predictors of shared genomic function. BMC Genomics, 20(1), 268.
2018
Leasi, F., Sevigny, J. L., Laflamme, E. M., Artois, T., Curini-Galletti, M., de Jesus Navarrete, A., et al. (2018). Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach. Commun Biol, 1(1).
Conference Presentations - 9
2019
Leasi, F., Laflamme, E. M., Sevigny, J. L., & Thomas, W. K. (2019). Integrating Biodiversity Surveys of Meiofauna and Microbiome for Ecosystem biomonitoring. In 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO). Evora, Portugal : 07/07/19-07/12/19.
Sevigny, J., Westbrook, A., Leasi, F., Briggs, E., Simpson, S., & Thomas, W. K. (2019). Improved Mitochondrial Metagenomic Methods for Analyzing Meiofaunal Communities. In 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO). Evora, Portugal : 07/07/19-07/12/19.
2018
Diaz, K. S., Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Schuelke, T., Reuscher, M. G., Rohal, M., et al. (2018). All these hosts are yours: microbial assemblage in benthic meiofauna of the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Leasi, F., Sevigny, J. L., Bik, H., Diaz, K. S., Montagna, P., Norenburg, J. L., et al. (2018). Evaluating the accuracy of metabarcoding based biodiversity analysis. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Bik, H., Diaz, K. S., Montagna, P., Norenburg, J. L., et al. (2018). The Impacts of an expanded set of meiofaunal genome references on the analyses of metagenomic samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18: Poster.
2017
Diaz, K. S., Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., & Thomas, W. K. (2017). All these hosts are yours: Microbial community assemblage in Benthic Meiofauna. In 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA : 12/11/17-12/15/17: Poster.
Reuscher, M. G., Montagna, P. A., Leasi, F., Morris, K., Sevigny, J., & Thomas, W. K. (2017). New methods for the identification of benthic infauna communities using next generation sequencing. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17: Poster.
Sevigny, J. L., Leasi, F., Diaz, K. Z., Rohal, M., Reuscher, M., Morris, K., et al. (2017). Genomic responses to the Deepwater Horizon event and development of high-throughput biological assays for oil spills. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2017. New Orleans, LA : 02/06/17-02/09/17.
2016
Thomas, W. K. (2016). Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity. In Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting. Queenland's Gold Coast, Australia : 07/03/16-07/07/16.