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Principal Investigator

Jonathan (Jon) P. Zehr
Principal Investigator
zehrj(@)pmc.ucsc.edu

Jonathan Zehr has been Professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1999.
Research Associates
Rachel Foster
Postdoctoral Scholar
rfoster(@)pmc.ucsc.edu

Symbiotic diazotrophs

Ian Hewson
Postdoctoral Scholar
hewson(@)ucsc.edu

  • Prokaryotic Biogeography
  • Deepwater Nitrogen Fixation
  • Prokaryotic Assemblage Metagenomics and Transcriptomics

    Personal Webpage

    		• Pia Moisander
    Assistant Researcher
    piam(@)pmc.ucsc.edu

    Pia Moisander is an Institute of Marine Sciences Research Associate who is interested in various aspects of aquatic cyanobacterial ecology and is working with DNA microarray approaches.

    Personal Website

    		Jim Tripp
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    htripp(@)ucsc.edu

  • Functional and structural genomics of marine plankton
  • Prokaryotic assemblage metagenomics and transcriptomics
  • On-line analytical processing and data warehousing


    		• Tuo Shi
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    tuoshi(@)ucsc.edu

  • functional and comparative microbial genomics
  • molecular evolution of photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation
  • regulation of metabolic genes corresponding to environmental stimuli
  • microarray-based whole-genome expressions in marine cyanobacteria

    Personal Website
    • Graduate Students

    		Shellie Bench
    Graduate Student (PhD)
    sbench(@)ucsc.edu

    Comparative genomics of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria.

    		Jason Hilton
    Graduate Student (PhD)
    jhilton(@)ucsc.eduu

    		Katie London
    Graduate Student (MS)
    katie.london(@)gmail.com

    Method development, for accurate detection and quantification of diazotrophs in the open ocean, using qPCR DNA assays

    		Sarah Mansergh
    Graduate Student (MS)
    smanserg(@)ucsc.edu

    		Ryan Paerl
    Graduate Student (PhD)
    rpaerl(@)ucsc.edu

    Assimilatory nitrate reduction in marine bacterioplankton and its utility in monitoring communities in various marine ecosystems.

    		Kory Pennebaker
    Graduate Student (MS)
    kpennebaker(@)pmc.ucsc.edu

    Circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria
    Technical Support
      Brandon Carter
    Specialist, MEGAMER facility Senior Manager
    bjcarter(@)pmc.ucsc.edu


    Mary Hogan
    Associate Specialist III
    hulk(@)ucsc.edu


    Andrea Michels
    Administrative Assistant
    zehradmin(@)pmc.ucsc.edu


    Mari Ochiai
    Junior Specialist
    mo51364(@)ucsc.edu


    Kendra Turk
    Assistant Specialist
    katurk(@)gmail.com
    Undergraduate Students
      Martha Arciniega


    Zev Wisotsky


    Andrew Yocum






    University of California Santa Cruz
    Ocean Sciences Department
    Marine Microbiology Laboratory/Zehr Lab
    1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
    T: 831-459-3128
    F: 831-459-4882