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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., Di Domenico, M., Goetz, F., Hall, J. A., Hochberg, R., Jörger, K. M., Jondelius, U., Todaro, M. A., Wirshing, H. H., Norenburg, J. L., & Thomas, W. K. (2018). Biodiversity estimates and ecological interpretations of meiofaunal communities are biased by the taxonomic approach. Communications Biology, 1(1).

Conference Presentations - 8

2019

Leasi, F. L., E.M.; Sevigny, J. T., & W.K (2019). Integrating Biodiversity Surveys of Meiofauna and Microbiome for Ecosystem biomonitoring. In 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO)
Sevigny, J. W., A.; Leasi, F. B., E.; Simpson, S. T., & W.K (2019). Improved Mitochondrial Metagenomic Methods for Analyzing Meiofaunal Communities. In 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO)

2018

Diaz, K. S., J.L.; Leasi, F. S., T.; Reuscher, M. R., M.; Norenburg, J. B., H.M.; Montagna, P. T., & W.K (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
Leasi, F. S., J.L.; Bik, H. D., K.S.; Montagna, P. N., J.L.; Reuscher, M. R., M.; Schuelke, T. T., & W.K (2018). Evaluating the accuracy of metabarcoding based biodiversity analysis. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018
Sevigny, J. L., F.; Bik, H. D., K.S.; Montagna, P. N., J.L.; Reuscher, M. R., M.; Schuelke, T. T., & W.K (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

2017

Diaz, K. S., J.L.; Leasi, F. T., & W.K (2017). All these hosts are yours: Microbial community assemblage in Benthic Meiofauna. In 2017 AGU Fall Meeting
Reuscher, M. M., P.A.; Leasi, F. M., K.; Sevigny, J. T., & 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
Sevigny, J. L., F.; Diaz, K. R., M.; Reuscher, M. M., K.; Montagna, P. T., & W.K (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