Biography
Joeselle Serrana studied biology at Bulacan State University (BSc) and De La Salle University (MSc) in the Philippines. He moved to Japan in 2016 for graduate studies, and earned his degree in Doctor of Engineering in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2021 at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering in Ehime University with the support of the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kozo Watanabe of the Molecular Ecology and Health Laboratory of the Center for Marine Environmental Studies, his research student training and doctorate work focused on molecular ecology, specifically on the applications of metabarcoding and metagenomics in the biodiversity assessment and ecological monitoring of freshwater ecosystems. In 2021, he joined the NorthOmics Lab at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ottawa, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the TECHNOlogies for MIcrobiome Science and Engineering, supported by the NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program.
Expertise
- Molecular Ecology
- Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
- Microbial Ecology
Research Projects
In the NorthOmics Lab, Joeselle’s research interests are in microbial ecology, antimicrobial resistance, and the application of multi-omics, e.g., next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry-based approaches, toward the molecular analysis of resistance, ecological and/or evolutionary responses of microbial communities.
- Serrana JM, Watanabe K. Sediment-associated microbial community profiling: Sample pre-processing through sequential membrane filtration for 16S rdna amplicon sequencing. BMC Microbiology. 2020. doi:10.1101/2020.10.21.348342
- Serrana JM, Li B, Sumi T, Takemon Y, Watanabe K. Implications of taxonomic and numerical resolution on DNA metabarcoding-based inference of benthic macroinvertebrate responses to river restoration. Ecological Indicators. 2022;135:108508. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108508
- Serrana JM, Ormenita LA, Almarinez BJ, Watanabe K, Barrion AT, Amalin DM. Life history and host plant assessment of the cacao mirid bug Helopeltis bakeri poppius (Hemiptera: Miridae). Phytoparasitica. 2021;50(1):1-12. doi:10.1007/s12600-021-00957-1
- Serrana JM, Li B, Sumi T, Takemon Y, Watanabe K. Profiling the microbial community structure and functional diversity of a dam‐regulated river undergoing gravel bar restoration. Freshwater Biology. 2021;66(11):2170-2184. doi:10.1111/fwb.13824
- Serrana JM, Miyake Y, Gamboa M, Watanabe K. Comparison of DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification for stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity assessment and monitoring. Ecological Indicators. 2019;101:963-972. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.02.008
- Serrana JM, Ishitani N, Carvajal TM, et al. Unraveling the genetic structure of the coconut scale insect pest (aspidiotus rigidus reyne) outbreak populations in the Philippines. Insects. 2019;10(11):374. doi:10.3390/insects10110374
- Rachmadi AT, Kitajima M, Watanabe K, et al. Free-chlorine disinfection as a selection pressure on norovirus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2018;84(13). doi:10.1128/aem.00244-18
- Serrana JM, Yaegashi S, Kondoh S, Li B, Robinson CT, Watanabe K. Ecological influence of sediment bypass tunnels on macroinvertebrates in dam-fragmented rivers by DNA metabarcoding. Scientific Reports. 2018;8(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-28624-2