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Principal Investigator



Jonathan (Jon) P. Zehr
Professor of Ocean Sciences
zehrj(at)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(at)pmc.ucsc.ed
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Symbiotic diazotrophs


Personal Website


Irina Ilikchyan
Postdoctoral Researcher
iirina(at)ucsc.edu



Pia Moisander
Assistant Researcher
piam(at)pmc.ucsc.edu


Personal Website



Julie Robidart
MEGAMER Postdoctoral Researcher
jrobidar(at)ucsc.edu



Jim Tripp
Bioinformatics Specialist
htripp(at)ucsc.edu

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

    Personal Webpage

  • Graduate Students


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

    Comparative genomics of nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria.


    Jason Hilton
    Graduate Student (PhD)
    jhilton(at)ucsc.edu



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



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

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

    Nicole Pereira
    Graduate Student
    napereir(at)ucsc.edu




    Technical Support

      Brandon Carter
    Specialist, MEGAMER facility Senior Manager
    bjcarter(at)pmc.ucsc.edu


    Tracy Cote
    Junior Specialist
    tracyrenae7(at)yahoo.com


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


    Mary Margaret Perez
    Administrative Assistant
    mperez11(at)ucsc.edu



    Kendra Turk
    Assistant Specialist
    katurk(at)gmail.com

    Undergraduate Students







    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