• Environmental DNA
• Conservation Biology
• Fish and Freshwater Ecology
• Parasitology 

Monitoring of the European weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis) via environmental DNA

• Since 06/2018 PhD Student at the University of Koblenz-Landau
   
• 10/2015 – 05/2018 Master of Science, Biodiversity (University of Duisburg Essen, Germany)
  • Master Thesis: Detection of Aquatic Parasites and their Diversity using Environmental DNA
     
• 10/2012 - 08/2015 Bachelor of Science, Biology (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
  • Bachelor Thesis: Community Closure as an Effect of Extreme Heatwaves

Non-Peer-reviewed

Kusanke, L.; Walther, D.; Kampen, H.; Schäfer, M.: Identification of mosquito blood meal sources (Diptera, Culicidae) utilizing cytochrome b gene PCR (Conference Paper, Entomology Congress 2017).

Presentations

• 26.02.2020 -28.02.2020 4th Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics 2020 (ConsGen20): eDNA Monitoring of the endangered European Weather Loach (M. fossilis).

• 28.08.2018: Deutscher Fischereitag (German Fishing Day), Lübeck: Environmental DNA – Nachweis von Fischarten in Binnengewässern: Aktueller Stand, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. 

Kusanke, L. M.; Panteleit, J.; Stoll, S.; Korte, E.; Sünger, E.; Schulz, R.; Theissinger, K. (2020) Detection of the endangered European weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis) via water and sediment samples: Testing multiple eDNA workflows. In: Ecology and evolution 10, S. 8331–8344. DOI Link