Jonathon earned his BS at the University of Minnesota, working with Frank Barnwell, and earned his PhD with George Somero at Oregon State University. Prior to his current positions at SFSU and Berkeley, he held a one-year professorship at Occidental College, and was a tenure-track professor at the University of Hawaii for two years. He was also a guest professor at the University of Basel Switzerland from 2018-2023.

Jessenia earned her BS at San Francisco State University where she worked with NERR scientists on invasive species. She is interested in marine ecophysiology in a global climate change context. For her MS Thesis, she is working on a RNA-seq dataset to examine interactive effects of temperature and salinity variation.

Alexis graduated from UC Santa Cruz where she engaged in projects with Kristy Kroeker's research group, including a field experience in Sitka Alaska. Her interests are in the environmental physiology of marine coastal invertebrates.

Lili earned her BA in Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz where she worked in the Mehta lab researching the foraging behavior of California morays (Gymnothorax mordax). She began her MS in Physiology and Behavioral biology under the mentorship of Jonathon Stillman at SFSU in Fall of 2023. Her research interests include marine sciences- with a specific focus on understanding how an organism’s physiology responds to climate change. Her current project focuses on the embryonic development of porcelain crabs (Petrolisthes cinctipes).

About Rafael.

Ceci earned her B.S. in Genetics at Iowa State University where she worked on phylogenetics on fig wasp populations from Baja California and Mexico. She is interested in comparative genomics and conservation genomics, with a particular focus in adaptive genomics relating to organisms’ ability to respond to environmental stressors and how genome evolution accounts for differences in physiologic responses.

About Ysabelle.

Nicky earned his BA in Environmental Studies at Soka University of America where his research examined the relationship between shorebird distribution and habitat type abundance. His research interests lie in the avian sciences, particularly how environmental stressors, such as pollution and habitat degradation, are impacting shorebird populations.

About Shana.

About Abby.

About Luis.