Courses That I Teach

Bio 178: Molecular Ecology

Bio100: Introduction to Scientific Analysis

Bio 2: Cells, Molecules, and Genes

Lab Webpage

http://lugleason.weebly.com

 

Publications

Gleason, L.U., Burton, R.S., 2016.  Regional patterns of thermal stress and constitutive gene expression in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis in northern and southern California.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 556: 143-159.

Gleason, L.U., Burton, R.S., 2016.  Genomic evidence for ecological divergence against a background of population homogeneity in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis.  Molecular Ecology 25: 3557-3573.

Gleason, L.U., Burton, R.S., 2015.  RNA-seq reveals regional differences in transcriptome response to heat stress in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis.  Molecular Ecology 24: 610-627.

Gleason, L.U., Burton, R.S., 2013.  Phenotypic evidence for local adaptation to heat stress in the marine snail Chlorostoma(formerly Tegula) funebralis.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 448: 360-366.

Gleason, L.U., Burton, R.S., 2012. High-throughput molecular identification of fish eggs using multiplex suspension bead arrays.  Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 57-66.

 

Presentations

Gleason LU, Miller LP, Winnikoff J, Somero, GN, Bratz D, Yancey PH, Dowd WW. Individual metrics of body temperature and behavior explain variation in oxidative damage and thermoprotective osmolytes in Mytilus californianus. 2017 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gleason LU, Burton RS. Genomic evidence for ecological divergence against a background of population homogeneity in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis. 2016 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference. Portland, Oregon.

Gleason LU, Burton RS. Genomic evidence for ecological divergence against a background of population homogeneity in the marine snail Chlorostoma funebralis. 2015 Society for the Study of Evolution Conference. Guarujá, Brazil.

Gleason LU, Burton RS. RNA-seq reveals regional differences in the transcriptome response to heat stress in Chlorostoma funebralis. 2014 Society for the Study of Evolution Conference. Raleigh, North Carolina.

Gleason LU, Burton RS. RNA-seq reveals regional differences in the transcriptome response to heat stress in Chlorostoma funebralis. 2014 Southern California Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Meeting, University of Southern California.

Gleason LU, Burton RS. RNA-seq reveals population differences in the transcriptome response to heat stress in Chlorostoma funebralis. 2013 Society for the Study of Evolution Conference. Snowbird, Utah.

 

Research Projects/Interests

I use the power of ecological genomics to identify genes responsible for heat stress tolerance in the era of global warming.  

My main research interests include physiological adaptations (and their underlying molecular mechanisms) to abiotic factors such as heat in local marine environments.  My current projects investigate 1) the genetic basis of local adaptation to thermal stress across populations of the black turban snail Chlorostoma funebralis in northern and southern California and 2) ecological and evolutionary physiology and genomics of the environmental stress response in Mytilus californianus mussels. 

 For more information, please see my lab webpage.

 

Professional Associations

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Society for the Study of Evolution

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society