Maryna P Lesoway
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Scholar
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Supervisor: Deirdre Lyons
Postdoctoral Research Associate
FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Supervisor: Jonathan Henry
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Biology
Neotropical Environment Option
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama, Republic of Panama
Supervisors: Ehab Abouheif (McGill), Rachel Collin (STRI)
Funded by FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarship (B2)
Certificat en Sciences de l’environnement
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
Master of Science, Biology
University of Victoria; Victoria, BC, Canada
Supervisor: Louise R. Page
Bachelor of Science, Zoology
University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada
International Baccalaureate Diploma ; High School Diploma
St. Mary’s High School, Calgary, AB, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
Lesoway, MP and Henry, JQ. 2021. Retinoids promote penis development in sequentially hermaphroditic snails. Developmental Biology. 478: 122-132. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.06.013
Lesoway, MP. 2021. In the Spotlight — Postdoc. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 336: 5– 6. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22991
Collin R, Shishido CM, Cornejo AJ, and Lesoway MP. 2021. Ancestral form and function of larval feeding structures are retained during development of non-planktotrophic gastropods. International Journal of Developmental Biology. 65: 413–425. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.200154rc
Henry JQ, Lesoway MP, and Perry KJ. 2020. An automated aquatic rack system for rearing marine invertebrates. BMC Biology. 18: 46. doi:10.1186/s12915-020-00772-w
Lesoway, MP and Henry, JQ. 2019. Sex determination and sex change in slipper snails and other molluscs. In: EvoDevo: Non-Model Species in Cell and Developmental Biology.Eds: W Tworzydlo and S Bilinski. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation. Springer.
Lesoway MP and Henry JQ. 2019. Twisted shells, spiral cells, and asymmetries: Evo-Devo lessons learned from gastropods. In: Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide. Eds: GB Müller and L Nuño de la Rosa. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33038-9_179-1
Armisén D, Rajakumar R, Friedrich M, Benoit JB, Robertson HM, Panfilio KA, Ahn S-J, Poelchau MF, Chao H, Dinh H, Doddapaneni HV, Dugan S, Gibbs RA, Hughes DST, Han Y, Lee SL, Murali SC, Muzny DM, Qu J, Worley KC, Munoz-Torres M, Abouheif E, Bonneton F, Chen T, Chiang L-M, Childers CP, Cridge AG, Crumière AJJ, Decaras A, Didion EM, Duncan EJ, Elpidina EN, Favé M-J, Finet C, Jacobs CGC, Cheatle Jarvela AM, Jennings EC, Jones JW, Lesoway MP, Lovegrove MR, Martynov A, Oppert B, Lillico-Ouachour A, Rajakumar A, Refki PN, Rosendale AJ, Santos ME, Toubiana W, van der Zee M, Vargas Jentzsch IM, Lowman AV, Viala S, Richards S, Khila A. 2018. The genome of the water strider Gerris buenoi reveals expansions of gene repertoires associated with adaptations to life on the water. BMC Genomics. 19: 832. doi:10.1186/s12864-018-5163-2
Henry, JQ, Lesoway, MP, Perry, KJ, Osborne, CC, Shankland, M, and Lyons, DC. 2017. Beyond the Sea: Crepidula atrasolea as a spiralian model system. International Journal of Developmental Biology. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.170110jh
Lesoway, MP, Collin, R, and Abouheif, E. 2017. Early activation of MAPK and apoptosis in nutritive embryos of calyptraeid gastropods. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22745
Lesoway, MP, Abouheif, E, and Collin, R. 2016. Comparative transcriptomics of alternative developmental phenotypes in a marine gastropod. Journal of Experimental Zoology B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 326:151-167. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22674
Lesoway, MP. 2016. The Future of Evo-Devo: The Inaugural Meeting of the Pan American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Evolution & Development. doi: 10.1111/ede.12181
Lesoway, MP, Abouheif E., and Collin, R. 2014. The development of viable and nutritive embryos in the direct developing gastropod Crepidula navicella. International Journal of Developmental Biology. 58: 601-611. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.140136rc
McDonald, KA, Collin, R and Lesoway, MP. 2014. Poecilogony in the caenogastropod Calyptraea lichen. Invertebrate Biology. 133: 213–220. doi: 10.1111/ivb.12057
Abouheif, E, Favé, MJ, barrarán-Viniegra, AS, Lesoway, MP, Rafiqi, AM, and Rajakumar, R. 2014. Eco-evo-devo: The time has come. In: Ecological Genomics: Ecology and the Evolution of Genes and Genomes. C. Landry and N. Aubin-Horth (eds.). Springer.
Lyons DC, Perry KJ, Lesoway MP, Henry, JQ. 2012. Cleavage pattern and fate map of the mesentoblast, 4d, in the gastropod Crepidula: a hallmark of spiralian development. EvoDevo. 3:21. 19 September 2012.
Lesoway, MP and Page, LR. 2008. Growth and differentiation during delayed metamorphosis of feeding gastropod larvae: signatures of ancestry and innovation. Marine Biology. 153(4): 723–734.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS :
Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
1st place, Postdoctoral Podium Talk Competition, Travel Award ; August 2019
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
Whitman Center Early Career Investigator Award ; Summer 2018
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology. Kobe, Japan. Travel Fellowship ; October 2017
Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
Travel Award ; August 2017
Society for Developmental Biology. Emerging Models Grant ; 2017
Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA.
Whitman Center Early Career Investigator Award ; Summer 2017
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies.
Bourse de recherche postdoctorale ; 2016 – 2018
Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences. Excellence Award / Bourse d’excellence ;
April 2015
Canadian Society of Zoologists. Student Travel Award ; April 2015
Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences. Excellence Award / Bourse d’excellence ;
May 2014 (Declined)
Department of Biology, McGill University. GREAT Travel Award ; May 2014
Department of Biology, McGill University. International Research Travel Award ;
September 2013
Department of Biology, McGill University. International Research Travel Award ; April 2013
Department of Biology, McGill University. Research Travel Award ; April 2012
Department of Biology, McGill University ; GREAT/GTC Travel Award ; January 2012
Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences. Excellence Award / Bourse d’excellence ;
January 2012
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Fellows’ Travel Award ; September 2011
Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA, USA. Teaching Honorarium ; July 2011
Evo-Devo-Eco Network (EDEN), NSF Research Coordination Network. Research Exchange Award (Henry Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) ; May 2011
Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington. Financial Support ; June 2010
Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences. Excellence Award / Bourse d’excellence ;
June 2010
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Charlotte Mangum Student Support ;
January 2010
Department of Biology, McGill University. GREAT/GTC Travel Award ; January 2010
McGill University. Provost’s Graduate Fellowship ; September 2009
McGill University. Principal’s Graduate Fellowship ; September 2009
McGill University. STRI-NEO-McGill Fellowship ; September 2009
Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies.
Bourse de doctorat en recherche ; 2009-2012
University of Victoria. Graduate Research and Teaching Fellowship ; 2001-2004
PRESENTATIONS
Lesoway MP and Henry JQ. Leveraging ecotoxicology to understand evolution and development of sex determination. Virtual Evolution. Online. 21–25 June, 2021.
Lesoway MP*. Calyptraeid gastropods: a model clade for Eco-Evo-Devo. Spiralian White Paper Meeting. Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, St. Augustine, FL, USA. November 2019.
Lesoway MP* and Henry, JQ. Generating molecular tools to study gastropod development. World Congress of Malacology. Pacific Grove, CA, USA. 11–16 August 2019.
- Invited Talk, Utility of Molluscan Genomics Symposium
(Deirdre Lyons and Jessica Goodheart, organizers)
Lesoway MP* and Henry, JQ. Sex change in marine snails: leveraging ecotoxicology to identify developmental mechanisms. 3rd Biennial Meeting, Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Biology. Miami, FL, USA. 30 July–2 August 2019.
- Selected Abstract
- Awarded 1st Prize, Postdoctoral Podium Talk
Lesoway MP*, and Henry JQ. Sex Change in Marine Snails: Leveraging Ecotoxicology to Identify Developmental Mechanisms. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists. Windsor, ON, Canada. 13 – 17 May 2019.
Lesoway MP* and Henry JJ. Sex Change in Slipper Limpets. 29th CDB Meeting: Mavericks, New Models in Developmental Biology. RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB). Kobe, Japan. 19-20 October, 2017.
Lesoway, MP* and Henry JJ. Sex Change in Slipper Limpets. Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Second Biennial Meeting. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 19-23 August 2017.
- Selected Abstract
Lesoway, MP*, Collin R, and Abouheif, E. Ecology, evolution, and development of nutritive embryos in the calyptraeid gastropods. 2015 Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium. Montréal, Québec, Canada. 29-30 October 2015.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin R, and Abouheif, E. Potential roles for apoptosis and MAPK in nutritive embryo development in the calyptraeid gastropods. Canadian Society of Zoologists Annual Meeting. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. 25-29 May 2015.
Lesoway, MP*. Ecology, evolution, and development of nutritive embryos in the calyptraeid gastropods. BESS (Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability) / NEO (Neotropical Environment Option) Symposium 2015. McGill University, Montréal, Canada. 19 May 2015.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin R, and Abouheif, E. Comparative transcriptomics of viable and nutritive embryos in the direct developing marine snail, Crepidula navicella. Genomes to Biomes: 1st Joint Meeting of CSEE, CSZ, and SCL. Montréal, Canada. 25-29 May 2014.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin, R, and Abouheif, E. Repeated evolution of trophic embryos in the calyptraeid gastropods. Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science 2012 Symposium on Biodiversity Science. Montreal, Canada. 13-14 December 2012.
Lesoway, MP*. MAPK activation and early development in the calyptraeid gastropods. Annual NEO Symposium, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá. 8 August 2011.
Lesoway, MP*. Evolution and Development in the Calyptraeid Gastropods. Annual NEO Symposium. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, 2 August 2010.
Lesoway, MP* and Page, LR. Comparing gastropods during delay of metamorphosis. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, USA. 7 January 2004.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Lesoway, MP* and Henry, JQ. Crepidula atrasolea as a laboratory system for developmental biology. Society for Developmental Biology 78th Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, USA. 26–30 July, 2019.
Henry, JQ and Lesoway, MP*. Crepidula atrasolea as a laboratory system for developmental biology. National Science Foundation, 1st Annual EDGE (Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools) Awardee Meeting. Alexandria, VA, USA. 28–29 April 2019.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin, R, Abouheif, E. Ecology, evolution, and development of nutritive embryos in the calyptraeid gastropods. Inaugural Meeting. Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. August 5-9, 2015. Berkeley, CA, USA.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin, R, Abouheif, E. How to break an egg: Comparative transcriptomics of a direct developing snail with nutritive embryos. Evolution Ottawa. 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. July 6-10, 2012. Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Lesoway, MP*, Collin, R, Abouheif, E, Henry, JJ. MAPK activation and early development in the calyptraeid gastropods. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting. Charleston, SC, USA. 6 January 2012.
CM Shishido*, R Collin, Lesoway, MP. The development of particle capture and ingestion abilities in calyptraeid gastropods with different modes of development. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting.Charleston, SC, USA. 6 January 2012.
Lesoway, MP* and Collin, R. Particle capture and ingestion abilities in larvae of calyptraeid gastropods with different modes of development. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, USA. 6 January 2010.
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS :
Summer School in Evolutionary Developmental Biology: From Gene Networks to Organismal Systems. September 23-27, 2013. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Venice, Italy.
Tomlinson Project in University-Level Science Education (T-PULSE) Graduate Teaching Workshop. January 8-10, 2013. Université McGill, Montréal, Canada.
Next Generation Sequencing Workshop. October 3-7, 2011. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC, USA.
Comparative Invertebrate Embryology. June – July 2010. Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington. Friday Harbor, WA, USA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE :
Research Facilitator. Summer 2019, 2011. Embryology: Concepts and Techniques in Modern Developmental Biology. Marine Biological Laboratory. Woods Hole, MA, USA.
Laboratory Instructor. Winter 2013, 2014. Biology 112. Cell and Molecular Biology. McGill University. Montréal, Canada.
Laboratory Instructor. Fall 2013. Biology 111. Principles: Organismal Biology. McGill University. Montréal, Canada.
Teaching Assistant. Fall 2012. Biology 304. Evolution. McGill University. Montréal, Canada.
Instructor. Curso de Introducción a las Ciencias Biologicas. November 6-7, 2011. Laboratorios Marinos Galeta. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
LANGUAGES :
Fluent in English and French.
Working knowledge of Spanish.
Basic Japanese, including reading and writing.
