Credit: Alyson Santoro

From bacteria to barracuda, from viruses to vaquita, IGPMS students and faculty work across all organismal scales to understand the rules of life in the ocean. Whether exploring long-standing questions in biological oceanography regarding the flow of energy in marine ecosystems, to pushing new frontiers in genomics and proteomics, IGPMS students and faculty are engaged in studying marine life in our backyard and all over the globe. The interdisciplinary nature of the IGPMS allows students to connect their biological research across the physical, chemical and social sciences.

Affiliated Faculty

Mark Brzezinski

Professor
The power of plankton.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Deron Burkepile

Professor
Marine ecology, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Alison Butler

Distinguished Professor
Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry and Metallobiochemistry.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Craig Carlson

Professor
I am a microbial oceanographer that studies the interaction between microbes and the biogeochemical processing of marine organic matter.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Jenn Caselle

Research Biologist
Marine ecology and conservation, community ecology, trophic interactions, coral reefs and kelp forests.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Peter Collins

Professor
Mechanisms regulating reproduction and development in vertebrate animal models.
Marine Organisms

Anthony DeTomaso

Professor
Molecular mechanisms of self/non-self recognition in non-vertebrates; characterization of stem cells and development processes underlying regeneration and aging.
Marine Organisms

Jenny Dugan

Research Biologist
Coastal Marine Ecologist.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Erika Eliason

Associate Professor
Ecological and evolutionary physiology, Fish biology, global change biology, comparative physiology.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Kathleen Foltz

Professor
Gamete recognition and fertilization in marine invertebrates.
Marine Organisms

Halley Froehlich

Assistant Professor
The Froehlich Lab studies the sustainability of seafood and marine ecosystems under climate change.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Steve Gaines

Professor and Dean, Bren School
Marine ecology, sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, oceans and climate change.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Sally Holbrook

Distinguished Professor
Marine ecology, community ecology, species interactions.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Patricia Holden

Professor
Environmental microbiology, water quality, pollutants, soils, urban and protected areas.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

Professor
Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez has worked for twenty years on diversity and function in marine phytoplankton combining molecular approaches, carbon physiology and biogeochemistry in the lab and in the field.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Bruce Kendall

Professor
Bruce is an ecological theoretician and modeler who applies population ecology to problems in conservation and fisheries management.
Marine Resources & Conservation

Armand Kuris

Professor
The mission of our research group is to reveal the role of infectious diseases in ecosystems. We investigate parasite ecology, disease ecology, food web dynamics, ecology and evolution of infectious strategies, and control of human parasites.
Marine Organisms

Douglas McCauley

Associate Professor
Understanding the ecology of communities and ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Robert Miller

Research Biologist
I am broadly interested in marine community ecology and benthic food webs. 
Marine Organisms

Holly Moeller

Assistant Professor
Uses mathematics, experiments, and field observations to understand how metabolic interactions between species shape the structure and function of ecological communities.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Dan Morse

Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Bio-inspired catalytic nanofabrication, tunable photonic materials and dynamic self-assembly. Applications to semiconductors, high-power batteries, electro-optics, IR and solar energy.
Marine Organisms

Michelle O'Malley

Associate Professor
Synthetic biology; cellular and biomolecular engineering; sustainability and bioremediation; membrane proteins; genetic regulation.
Marine Organisms

Susannah Porter

Professor
Proterozoic and Cambrian paleontology; origins of biomineralization; early eukaryote evolution; early animal evolution.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Joel Rothman

Professor
Regulation of development and differentiation; regulation of programmed cell death and cell division; mechanisms of tumorigenesis.
Marine Organisms

Alyson Santoro

Professor; Vice Chair and Graduate Advisor, IGPMS
Marine microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms

Russell Schmitt

Professor
Population and community ecology, marine ecology.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

David Siegel

Professor
Physical oceanographic / ecological coupling, biogeochemistry and coastal spatial ecology using the tools of an applied physicist, radiative transfer and fluid mechanics.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Resources & Conservation

Bill Smith

Professor
Developmental genetics and morphogenesis of the primitive chordate Ciona.
Marine Organisms

Adrian Stier

Associate Professor
Ocean Resilience: biodiversity, assembly, and sustainability of harvested ocean ecosystems.
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Thomas Turner

Associate Professor
Ecology and evolution of marine sponges
Marine Organisms

David Valentine

Professor
Chair, IGPMS
Carbon Climate, Marine Organisms Genomics.
Carbon & Climate
Marine Organisms
Marine Resources & Conservation

Herbert Waite

Distinguished Professor
Structure-properties relationships in loadbearing marine biomolecular materials, e.g. from mussels, squid and whelks, at different length and time scales to design new materials.
Marine Organisms

Lizzy Wilbanks

Assistant Professor
I am interested how microbial interactions and tightly-coupled biogeochemical cycles drive the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations, with a current focus on the bacteria and archaea of marine aggregates and biofilms.
Marine Organisms
  • Bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus) on the forereef at Palmyra Atoll. Credit: Katie Davis Koehn
  • Fungiid coral Kosrae, Micronesia. Credit: Alyson Santoro
  • Olimarao Atoll, Micronesia. Credit: Alyson Santoro
  • Coral Crab Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Adrian Stier