Research

Publications

  • Barghouth, P., Thiruvalluvan, M., LeGro, M.L., Oviedo, N.J. (2018). DNA Damage and Tissue Repair: What We Can Learn From Planarians. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, pii: S1084-9521(17)30237-9. doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.04.013.
  • LeGro, M.L. and Dempsey, M. (2012). Chapter 8: Continuous Monitoring. Water Quality Conditions in the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta and Suisun and San Pablo Bays during 2011-2012. California Department of Water Resources (CA DWR) Report in Compliance with Water Rights Decision D-1641. Library of Congress.

Conference Abstracts

  • LeGro, M., Barghouth, P., Thiruvalluvan, Ardell, D., Oviedo, N. (July 2018). Characterizing the transcriptomic landscape driving cell fate in genomic instability models. International Planarian Meeting 2018, Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI.
  • Betancourt, A., Thiruvalluvan, M., LeGro, M., Oviedo, N. (October 2017). Identifying the Molecular Landscape Driving Cellular Transformation. Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science National Diversity STEM Conference 2017, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • LeGro, M., Barghouth, P., Thiruvalluvan, M., Oviedo, N. (2016). Genomic Instability Drives Cell Fate Decisions. Computing Research Association, Grad Cohort Workshop 2016, San Diego, CA.
  • Simonoff-Smith, A., LeGro, M., Tan, T., Ewing, N. (April 2016; January 2015). A comparison of two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi specific primers for analysis of diversity and community composition from unused agricultural soil. CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB), CSU Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Santa Clara, CA.
  • Simonoff-Smith, A., LeGro, M., Ewing, N. (October, 2014). Identification of Arbuscular Mycorhizzal Fungi from Soils Adjacent to the American River. California State University, Sacramento, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Undergraduate Research Symposium.
  • LeGro, M. and Fuller, H. (Feb. 2015; September 2014) Chironomidae in the Delta: Where are They? 2015 Interagency Ecological Program Workshop, Folsom, CA; 2014 Environmental Scientist Workshop, Loomis, CA.

The Oviedo lab graduate students at the 2018 International Planarian Meeting in Madison, WI.

Action shot of “liver fest” in Dr. Néstor Oviedo’s lab at UC Merced

Dr. Néstor Oviedo with his graduate students at the 2018 International Planarian Meeting in Madison, WI.
Field sampling trip for a special study on toxic microcystis algae for the CA Department of Water Resources

Collecting and rinsing benthic samples as part of an environmental monitoring program in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for the CA Department of Water Resources