Maria Asunción Lake Leston

Principal Researcher
Department of Biomedical Innovation
Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada
Mexico

Biography

Maria Asunción Lake Leston is Principal Researcher from Department of Biomedical Innovation is working uder below entitled projects • Evaluation of the effect of temperature on the molecular and physiological mechanisms that regulate the reproduction of octopus maya • 1) Study of the metatranscripts of environments associated to hydrocarbon emanations and the genome of a battery characteristic of these environments (line hydrocarbon degradation) 2) Characterization of the metagenomes of the phytoplankton and bacterial communities of the Gulf of Mexico • 1) Study of the metatranscripts of environments associated to hydrocarbon emanations and the genome of a battery characteristic of these environments (line hydrocarbon degradation) 2) Characterization of the metagenomes of the phytoplankton and bacterial communities of the Gulf of Mexico • Study of microbial diversity adapted to extreme environments and their biotechnological potential • Basic line and environmental monitoring

Research Intrest

Applied sciences applied to biomedical and biotechnological development, Metagenomics

List of Publications
Keller-Costa T, Silva R, Leston LMA, Costa R (2016) Genomic Insights into Aquimarina sp. Strain EL33, a Bacterial Symbiont of the Gorgonian Coral Eunicella labiata. Genome Announcements 4: e00855-16.
Marfil SMD, O¿Connor SA, Ramírez PJH, De los Santos BC, López AKL, Rojas HRA, Leston LMA , Prieto DA (2016) A computationally simplistic poly-phasic approach to explore microbial communities from the Yucatan aquifer as a potential sources of novel natural products. J MICROBIOLOGY 54: 774-781.