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DR. JEFF LEBLOND
Associate Professor

Dr. Jeff Leblond

CONTACT:
E-mail: jleblond@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 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., Evens T.J., and Chapman P.J. 2002. Fatty acid and sterol composition of a Karenia brevis bloom off the northwest Florida coast. Submitted to Phycologia.
  • Leblond J.D. and 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. In press for Aug. 2002.
  • Leblond J.D., Schultz T.W., and Sayler G.S. 2001. Observations on the preferential biodegradation of selected components of polyaromatic hydrocarbon
    mixtures. Chemosphere 42:333-343.
  • Leblond J.D. and Chapman P.J. 2000. Lipid class distribution of highly unsaturated long-chain fatty acids in marine dinoflagellates. J. Phycol. 36:1103-1108.
  • 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. 19:1235-1246.

GRADUATE PROGRAM ROLE:
Graduate student advisor.


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