Current lab members
Dr. Will Ballentine
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dan Messinger
Lab Manager
Megan Schatz
Research Scientist
Amanda Winans
Research Scientist, Zooplankton Program
Emily Seubert
Research Scientist, Zooplankton Program
Olga Kalata
Research Scientist, Zooplankton Program
Avery Mathias
Ph.D. student
Morrigan Havely
UW Oceanography Major
Joel Tibbs
UW Marine Biology Major
Kyla Polock
UW Marine Biology and Quantitative Science Major
Cailey Plainte
Simmons University Biology Major
Lane Barron
Swarthmore College Biology Major
“Paw”-ject manager
Dot-Dot Ko
Former lab members
| Katie Kohn ‘2025 | Associate Programmatic Trader MiQ |
| Ruby Novogrodsky ’2025 | Uclelet Aquarium |
| Benjamin Jorgensen ’2023 | Medical Scribe |
| Brinton Vandegrift ’2023 | University of Michigan PREP program for M.D./Ph.D. |
| David Ye ’2023 | Ph.D. in Biochemistry at MIT |
| Mia Kwan ‘2022 | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Moey Rojas ‘2022 | Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University |
| Liam Ash ‘2022 | M.S. in Entomology at University of Georgia |
| Bailey Jones ’2022 | Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University |
| Lauren Holt ‘2021 | Medical School |
| Emily Branam ’2021 | Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at University of Oregon |
| Veronica Chau ‘2021 | High school science teacher |
| Seneca Kinn-Gurzo ‘2021 | Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at University of Pennsylvania |
| Maya Zimmerman ’2021 | Ocean Operations Specialist at Sofar Ocean |
| Jeffrey Mun ’2020 | M.D. at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine |
| Meagan Currie ‘2020 | Senior Research Analyst at ICe |