Jonathan (Jon) P. Zehr
Professor of Ocean Sciences
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Jonathan Zehr has been Professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1999.

Bombar’s research focuses on the role of microbes in oceanic nitrogen cycling. He aims to understand how the distribution and activity of different nitrogen-fixing prokaryotes is regulated by environmental factors. The approach he uses combines flow-cytometric sorting of different populations of microbes, molecular methods for identification, and substrate uptake measurements using stable isotope tracers.

• Cyanobacteria: picocyanobacteria and diazotrophs
• Gene expression in cyanobacteria under various environmental conditions and during a diel cycle
• Application of high-density microarrays to study microbial community gene expression

Julie Robidart
MEGAMER Postdoctoral Researcher
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• Deployment of remote instrumentation for marine microbial sampling and quantification (http://www.mbari.org/ESP/)
• Development of molecular tools for biogeochemical studies
• Metagenomics and proteomics of natural environmental microbial populations

Anne Thompson
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Sasha Tozzi
MEGAMER Postdoctoral Researcher
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• Phytoplankton ecology and photophysiology
• Photosynthesis and primary productionby fluorescence bioassays
• Chemostats R&D
• Biological oceanography

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Rachel Foster
Scientist
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Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie

Symbiotic diazotrophs

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Pia Moisander
Assistant Professor
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Jim Tripp
Bioinformatics Specialist
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• Functional and structural genomics of marine plankton
• Prokaryotic assemblage metagenomics and transcriptomics
• On-line analytical processing and data warehousing
  
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Shellie Bench
Graduate Student (PhD)
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Comparative genomics of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria.

Philip Heller
Graduate Student (PhD)
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Bioinformatics, Metatranscriptomics, Visualization

Jason Hilton
Graduate Student (PhD)
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Ryan Paerl
Graduate Student (PhD)
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Assimilatory nitrate reduction in marine bacterioplankton and its utility in monitoring communities in various marine ecosystems.

Tracy Cote
Junior Specialist
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Mary Hogan
Specialist
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Mary Margaret Perez
Administrative Assistant
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Kendra Turk-Kubo
Specialist
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