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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Funding Source: Year 6-8 Investigator Grants (RFP-V)

Project Publications & Presentations

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

Journal Articles - 5

2020

Pereira, T. J., De Santiago, A., Schuelke, T., Hardy, S. M., & Bik, H. M. (2020). The impact of intragenomic rRNA variation on metabarcoding-derived diversity estimates: A case study from marine nematodes. Environmental DNA, , e77.
Reuscher, M. G., Baguley, J. G., Montagna, P. A., & Corsi, I. (2020). The expanded footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico deep-sea benthos. PLoS ONE, 15(6), e0235167.

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).
Schuelke, T., Pereira, T. J., Hardy, S. M., & Bik, H. M. (2018). Nematode-associated microbial taxa do not correlate with host phylogeny, geographic region or feeding morphology in marine sediment habitats. Mol Ecol, 27(8), 1930–1951.

Conference Presentations - 19

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.
Montagna, P. A., Rohal, M., Schwing, P., Romero, I. C., & Escobar-Briones, E. (2019). Lessons Learned From Ixtoc : Inspired by Wes Tunnell. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19.
Reuscher, M. G., Montagna, P. A., & Baguley, J. G. (2019). Expanded footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea benthic communities. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2019. New Orleans, LA : 02/04/19-02/07/19: Poster.
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.
Montagna, P. (2018). What have we learned from studies of offshore platforms, oil seeps, and oil spills? In Benthic Ecology Meeting 2018. Corpus Christi, TX : 03/28/18-03/30/18.
Reuscher, M. G., & Montagna, P. A. (2018). How suitable are species level and family level identifications of Gulf of Mexico polychaetes for multivariate biodiversity assessments? In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Reuscher, M. G., & Montagna, P. A. (2018). Taxonomic sufficiency and unidentifiable species in multivariate biodiversity assessments of benthic polychaetes from the northern Gulf of Mexico. In Benthic Ecology Meeting 2018. Corpus Christi, TX : 03/28/18-03/30/18.
Rohal, M., Escobar-Briones, E., Montagna, P., Romero, I., Schwing, P., & Hollander, D. (2018). How quickly will the deep sea ecosystem recover from the 2010 DWH oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Rohal, M., Escobar-Briones, E., Montagna, P., Romero, I., Schwing, P., & Hollander, D. (2018). How quickly will the deep sea ecosystem recover from the 2010 DWH oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout event. In Benthic Ecology Meeting 2018. Corpus Christi, TX : 03/28/18-03/30/18.
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

Bik, H. M. (2017). Free-living nematodes in marine sediments: linking molecules with morphology in the -Omics age. In The Society of Nematologists Annual Meeting. Williamsburg, VA : 08/13/17-08/17/17.
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.
Montagna, P. A. (2017). Are Offshore Platforms Benthic Disturbances or Habitats? In International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) All Science Conference (ASC) 2017. Fort Lauderdale, FL : 09/18/17-09/21/17.
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.
Schuelke, T., Pereira, T. J., Hardy, S. M., & Bik, H. M. (2017). Nematode-associated microbial taxa do not correlate with host phylogeny, geographic region or feeding morphology in marine sediment habitats. In 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems (CBE6). Woods Hole, MA : 08/27/17-09/01/17.
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.
This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative.
www.gulfresearchinitiative.org