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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Francesca Leasi

Smithsonian Institution

Department of Invertebrate Zoology

10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20560

francesca.leasi@gmail.com

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: Research Scientist

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1
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 - 8
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.