DR. JEFF LEBLOND
Associate Professor

CONTACT:
E-mail: Jeff.Leblond@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-5205
Fax: (615) 898-5093
Office Location:
Davis Science Building 120E
MTSU Box 60
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

EDUCATION:
B.S. in Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993
Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1997
Postdoctoral research in Algal Biochemistry at United States Environmental Protection Agency, Gulf Breeze, FL 1998-2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Lipid biochemistry of algae, particularly marine dinoflagellates

PUBLICATION RECORD:

• Leblond, J.D., Khadka, M. & Dodson, J. Mono- and digalactosyldiacylglycerol composition of dinoflagellates. V. Chromera velia (Chromerida), a photosynthetic alveolate that shares a red algal Plastid ancestry with peridinin-containing dinoflagellates. In preparation.
• Dahmen, J.L. & Leblond, J.D. Free sterol composition of the dinoflagellate genus, Pyrocystis: a spectrum of Intragenus sterol diversity. Submitted to J. Euk. Microbiol.
• Leblond, J.D., Dodson, J., Khadka, M. & Holder, S. Sterol composition of the recently discovered photosynthetic alveolate, Chromera velia (Chromerida), a close reltive of apicomplexans and dinoflagellates. Submitted to J. Euk. Microbiol.
• Leblond, J.D., Roche, S.A., Lasiter, A.D. & Li C. Sterols of the green-pigmented, freshwater raphidophyte, Gonyostomum semen (Raphidophyceae): comparison to brown-pigmented, marine taxa and clustering of raphidophytes according to sterol composition. Submitted to J. Phycol.
• Leblond, J.D. & Dahmen, J.L. Galactolipid profile of Alexandrium tamarense (Dinophyceae) during the course of an infection by the parasitic dinoflagellate, Amoebophrua sp. Submitted to J. Phycol.
• Leblond, J.D., Porter, N.M., Roche, S.A. & Dunlap, N.K. Production of stigmasterol by the harmful marine dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis. Submitted to Proceedings of the 14th Annual ISSHA Conference.
• Leblond, J.D. & Lasiter, A.D. Sterols of the green-pigmented dinoflagellate, Lepidodinium cholorophorum. Protist. In press.
• Leblond, J.D., Timofte, H.I., Roche, S.A., Porter, N.M. 2011. Sterols of glaucocystophytes. Phycological Res. 59:129-134
• Roche, S.A., & Leblond, J.D. 2011. Mono- and digalactosyldiacylglycerol composition of raphidophytes (Raphidophyceae): a modern interpretation using positive-ion electrospray/mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry. J. Phycol. 47:106-111.
• Leblond, J.D., Roche, S. A., Porter, N.M., Howard, J.C., & Dunlap, N.K. 2011. Sterol biosynthesis in the harmful marine dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis: identificatin of biosynthetic intermediates produced during exposure to the fungicide fenpropidine. Phycological Res. 59:54-63
• Roche, S.A. & Leblond, J.D. 2010. Betaine lipids in chlorarachniophytes. Phycological Res. 58:298-305.
• Leblond, J.D., Timofte, H.I., Roche, S.A., & Porter, N.M. 2010. Mono- and digalactosyldiacylglycerol composition of glaucocystophytes (Glaucophyta): a modern interpretation using positive-ion electrospray/mass spectrometry/mas spectrometry. Phycological Res. 58:222-229.
• Leblond, J.D., Lasiter, A.D., Li, C., Logares, R., Rengefors, K., & Evens, T.J. 2010. A data mining approach to dinoflagellate clustering according to sterol composition: correlations with evolutionary history. Int. J. Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 4:431-451.
• Leblond, J.D., Dahmen, J.L., & Evens, T.J. 2010. Mono- and Digalactosylacylglycerol composition of dinoflagellates. IV. Temperature-induced modulation of fatty acid regiochemistry as observed by electrospray ionization/mass spectrometry. E ur. J. Phycol. 45:13-18.
• Gray, C.G., Lasiter, A.D., & Leblond, J.D. 2009. Mono- and digalactosylacylglycerol composition of dinoflagellates. III. Four cold-adapted, peridinin-containing taxa and the presence of trigalactosyldiacylglycerol as an additional glycolipid. Eur. J. Phycol. 44:439-445.
• Leblond, J.D. & Lasiter, A.D. 2009. Mono- and digalactosylacylglycerol composition of dinoflagellates. II. Lepidodinium chlorophorum, Karenia brevis, and Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, three dinoflagellates with aberrant plastids. Eur. J. Phycol. 44:199-205.
• Gray, C.G., Lasiter, A.D., Li C., & Leblond, J.D. 2009. Mono- and digalactosylacylglycerol composition of dinoflagellates. I. Peridinin-containing taxa. Eur. J. Phycol. 44:191-197.
• Leblond, J.D. & Roche, S.A. 2009. Mono- and digalactosylacylglycerol composition of chlorarachniophytes (Chlorarachniophyceae): production of a novel lauric acid (12:0)-containing form of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG). Phycologia 48:101-104.
• Leblond, J.D., Lasiter, A.D., Li, C., Logares, R., Rengefors, K., & Evens, T.J. 2008. Applying clustering and phylogeny analysis to study dinoflagellates based on sterol composition. In Chen, X. W., Hu, X. H., and Kim, S. [Eds.] Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. pp. 90-97.
• Leblond, J.D., Anderson, B., Kofink, D., Logares, R., Rengefors, K.& Kremp, A. 2006. Fatty acid and sterol composition of two evolutionarily closely related dinoflagellate morphospecies from cold Scandinavian brackish and freshwaters. Eur. J. Phycol. 41:303-11.
• Leblond, J.D., Sengco, M.R., Sickman, J.O., Dahmen, J.D. & Anderson, D.A. 2006. Sterols of the syndinian dinoflagellate, Amoebophrya sp., a parasite of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense (Dinophyceae). J. Eukaryotic Microbiol. 53:211-16.
• Rogers, J.E., Leblond, J.D. & Moncreiff, C.A. 2006. Phylogenetic relationship of Alexandrium monilatum (Dinophyceae) to other Alexandrium species based on 18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Harmful Algae 5:272-80.
• Leblond, J.D., Dahmen, J.L., Seipelt, R.L., Elrod-Erickson, M.J., Kincaid, R., Howard, J.C., Evens, T.J. & Chapman, P.J. 2005. Lipid composition of chlorarachniophytes (Chlorarachniophyceae) from the genera Bigelowiella, Gymnochlora, and Lotharella. J. Phycol. 41:311-21.
• Evens, T.J. & Leblond, J.D. Photophysiology of the Florida Red Tide Dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis: Modifications in Thylakoid Lipid Composition in Response to Environmental Conditions. In Steidinger, K.A., Landsburg, J.H., Tomas, C.R., & Vargo, G.A. [Eds.] Harmful Algae 2002. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida institute of Oceanography, and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, pp. 414-417.
• Leblond, J.D. & Chapman, P.J. 2004. Sterols of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate, Pfiesteria piscicida (Dinophyceae): is there a lipid biomarker? J. Phycol. 40:104-11.
• Leblond, J.D., Evens, T.J. & Chapman, P.J. 2003. The biochemistry of dinoflagellate lipids, with particular reference to the fatty acid and sterol composition of a Karenia brevis bloom. Phycologia 42:324-31.
• Leblond, J.D. & Chapman, P.J. 2002. A survey of the sterol composition of the marine dinoflagellates Karenia brevis, Karenia mikimotoi, and Karlodinium micrum: distribution of sterols within other members of the class Dinophyceae. J. Phycol. 38:670-682.
• Leblond, J.D., Schultz, T.W. & Sayler, G.S. 2001. Observations on the preferential biodegradation of selected components of polyaromatic hydrocarbon mixtures. Chemosphere 42:333-343.
• Leblond J.D. & Chapman P.J. 2000. Lipid class distribution of highly unsaturated long-chain fatty acids in marine dinoflagellates. J. Phycol. 36:1103-8.
• Leblond J.D, Applegate B.M., Menn F.-M., Schultz T.W. & Sayler G.S. 2000. Structure-toxicity assessment of metabolites of the aerobic bacterial transformation of substituted naphthalenes. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 19:1235-46.
  

GRADUATE PROGRAM ROLE:
Graduate student advisor.