

People
People
Adam Martiny (PI)
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2000 M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark 2003 Ph.D. Environmental Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark Advisor: Soren Molin, Hans-Jorgen Albrechtsen and Erik Arvin 2003 - 2006 Postdoctoral Researcher, Ocean Microbiology, MIT Advisor: Sallie Chisholm 2006 - 2012 Assistant Professor 2012 - current Associate Professor Dept. of Earth System Science and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine |
Lab Members
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Alyse Larkin (Post Doc) | Zulema Gomez (Post Doc) |
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Eric Morrison (Post Doc) | Allison Moreno (grad student) |
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Catherine Garcia (grad student) | Stacy Suarez Cham (grad student) |
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Lucas Ustick (grad student) |
Jenna Lee (Lab Technician) |
Previous members:
Alyssa Kent (now Cornell University)
Junhui Lee (now Northern Arizona University)
Nathan Garcia (now Duke University)
Celine Mouginot
Stephen Hatosy (now Orange Coast College)
Renaud Berlemont (now CSU Long Beach)
Agathe Talarmin (now KAUST)
Cécilia Batmalle (now Georgia Tech)
Erik Lee
Andrew Fields
Pedro Flombaum (CLIMA, Argentina)
Chau Pham
Satish Kathuria
Undergraduate Students
Justin Cahatol | UCI - Earth System Sciences | 2019 - current |
Angie Nguyen | UCI - Public Health | 2018 - current |
Teghveer Kooner | UCI - Biological Sciences | 2016 - current |
Alyssa Fowlds | UCI - Chemistry | 2018 - 2019 |
Alessandra Flaherty | UCI- Chemistry | 2018 - 2019 |
Maggie Chiang | UCI - Chemistry | 2018 - 2019 |
Lira Islam | UCI - Public Health | 2018 |
Patrick Marra | UCI - Earth System Sciences | 2017 - 2019 |
Sarah Bowen | UCI - Biological Sciences | 2017 - 2019 |
Bianca De Carpio Garcia | UCI - Biological Sciences | 2017 - 2018 |
Jenna Lee |
UCI - Earth System Sciences | 2017 - 2018 |
Alani Ruiz | UCI - Biological Sciences | 2016 - 2018 |
Kimberly Ingoglia | UCI - Biological Sciences | 2016 - 2017 |
Adam Fagan | UCI – Earth System Sciences | 2016 - 2017 |
Tanya Lam | UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2015 - 2016 |
Rebecca Tinoco |
Santa Ana College / UCI (BRIDGE program) |
2015 |
Krista Ann Linzner | UCI – Biological Sciences | 2014 - 2016 |
Michael Steven Louie | UCI – Biological Sciences |
2014 - 2015 |
Johann Lopez |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences ESS honors program |
2014 - 2015 |
Dillon van der Berg | UCI – Biological Sciences |
2013 - 2014 |
Matthew Hernandez III |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2013 - 2014 |
Jeremy Huang |
UCI – Biological Sciences Excellence in Research |
2013 - 2015 |
Jessica Oquist |
Orange Coast College UCI - Biological Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Research |
2013 - 2015 |
Hafsa Vahidy | UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2013 |
Jeralyn Biscocho |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2013 |
Caleb Jimenez |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2013 |
Zachary Chan | UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2012 – 2013 |
Erik Lee |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2012 – 2013 |
Rika Kawamura |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences ESS honors program |
2012 – 2013 |
Jeannette Lee |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2012 – 2013 |
Ella Yuen |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2012 |
Joshua Lin | UCI - Public Health |
2012 |
Arianna Houriani |
UCI – Business and Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2013 |
Yasmin Oskooilar |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2012 |
Khang Duy Nguyen |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2012 |
Michelle Xu |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2012 |
Nick Kelley |
South Dakota State (REU student) |
2011 |
Allison Moreno |
CSU – Monterey (REU student) |
2011 |
Brittany Chew |
UCI – Public Health Campus Honors program |
2011 – 2012 |
Kinshuk Chatterjee |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2013 |
Mason Montoya |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 |
Stephanie Suen |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 |
Ashley Lim |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2012 |
Caitlyn Lee |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2011 – 2012 |
Catherine Chen |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2010 – 2011 |
Kevin Hutton |
UCI – Computer Science |
2010 |
Desiree Unsworth |
UCI – Public Health Campus honors |
2010 – 2011 |
Sara Freitas |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences ESS outstanding senior of the year ESS honors |
2010 – 2011 |
Samar Abedrabbo |
UCI – Biological Sciences Robert Young Award Excellence in Research |
2010 – 2011 |
Santiago Salazar |
UCI (BRIDGE program) |
2010 |
Stephanie Woods |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2010 – 2011 |
Beau Takagi |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2010 – 2011 |
Seth Kazmer |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2010 |
Caleb League |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 – 2011 |
Javier Li |
UCI – Computer Science |
2009 – 2010 |
Makram Saied |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 – 2010 |
Amanda Heetland |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 – 2011 |
Karen Barba |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 – 2011 |
Jane Wiedenbeck |
Weslyan University (REU student) Presented work at AGU Annual Meeting, 2009 and Ocean Sciences 2010 |
2009 |
Rodolfo Gordillo |
UCI – Computer Sciences |
2009 – 2010 |
Jiae Lee |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 – 2011 |
Albert Gao |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2009 |
Heui Bui |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2008 – 2009 |
Wilson Luu |
UCI – Computer Sciences |
2008 – 2009 |
Sammy Aboutalib |
UCI – Computer Sciences |
2008 – 2009 |
Andrea Chavez |
UCSB (summer intern) |
2008 |
Jackie Cannata |
UCLA (REU student) |
2008 |
Danny Ho |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2008 – 2011 |
Brian Cheung |
UCI – Biological Sciences Excellence in Research |
2008 – 2010 |
Aaron King |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2008 – 2009 |
Charlene Chow |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2008 |
Amy Yeh |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2008 |
Francisco Suarez |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2007 – 2008 |
Melissa Chow |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2007 – 2009 |
Jose Rincon |
UCI – Computer Science |
2007 – 2009 |
Dagoberto Garcia |
UCI – Biological Sciences |
2007 |
Jose Gallegos |
UCI – Computer Sciences |
2007 – 2009 |
Melissa Chrisman |
Rose-Pullman University (REU student) |
2007 |
Dinh Sai Lai |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2007 – 2008 |
Richard LeClair |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences |
2007 – 2008 |
Stephanie Ho |
UCI – Earth and Environmental Sciences ESS outstanding senior of the year ESS honors |
2007 – 2008 |