
Brett Baker (Associate Professor)
Emily Aguilar-Pine – Research Assistant (2023-present)
Georgina Aitolo – ILS Microbiology PhD student (2024-present)
Ariel Bellatin – Marine Science PhD student (2024-present)
Ben Jelen – Research Associate (2025-present)
Lara Codignola – Visiting Graduate Student (2024-present)
Emily Hyde – EEB PhD student (2023-present)
EV Meitzen – EEB PhD student (2025-present)
Natalie Sarno – EEB PhD Student (2022-present)
Nathalie Scott – lab technician (2024-present)
Robin Rohwer – Postdoctoral researcher (2022-present)
Current Undergraduates
Trenton Turpin – (2025– present)
Caroline Cole – (2024 – present)
Former lab members
Kathryn Appler – Marine Science Institute PhD (2019-2024)
Valerie de Anda – Research Associate/coordinator (2018-2024) – WEBSITE
Jasmine Yuan (2023-2025)
Brennan Martinez – Research Assistant (2022-2024)
Kathryn Currie – Procurement and Research Assistant (2023-2024)
Pedro Lopes Leao – Postdoctoral researcher (2021-2024)
Sophie Hoefner – Lab Research Assistant (2021-2024)
JD Carlton – Marine Science Graduate student (2021 -2023)
Jenny Hunt – LSAMP researcher (summer 2023)
Mirna Vázquez-Rosas-Landa – Postdoctoral researcher (2020-2022)
Ian Rambo – Marine Science PhD student (2016-2022)
Xianzhe Gong – Postdoctoral researcher (2018 – 2022)
Maggie Langwig – Marine Science Student and researcher (2017-2021)
Kiley Seitz – Marine Science PhD student (2015-2019); currently a Postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Heidelberg
Nina Dombrowski – Postdoctoral fellow (2015-2018) – WEBSITE
Sunny Sneed – Research technician (2020-2021)
Lacie Levy – Research assistant (2022-2023)
Bryan Vernon – Research assistant (2021-2022)

congrats on the Simons Investigator award! I was very happy to see you on that list!
Christof
Thanks Christof!