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My name is Marcelo Melo and I am a Brazilian biologist and professor at the Oceanographic Institite of Univesity of São Paulo, specializing in the taxonomy and evolution of deep-sea fishes. My interests in this field encompass a range of topics, including morphology and genetics, describing new species, phylogeny, and understanding the evolution of bioluminescence … Continued

Manu Prakash is Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Biology (courtesy), and Oceans (courtesy) at Stanford University and co-founder of Foldscope Instruments, Planktoscope, and Cephla. Manu graduated with an undergraduate degree in theoretical computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he completed a PhD in … Continued

I am a theoretical physicist, turned neuroscientist. I study animal movement using tools from dynamical systems theory. My work integrates animal behavioural experiments with non-linear time series analysis techniques to extract novel insights from real biological data. I am particularly interested in understanding how the need to move in different environments has shaped the evolution … Continued

I currently work as a Genomic Technician in International Marine Sciences at Tohoku University, where I oversee DNA extraction and sequencing workflows for marine biological samples.

Katie Burrows received her BS in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State, an MS in Electrical Engineering from SJSU, and is working towards her PhD in Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Her research focuses on distributed sensing and ocean robotics. Along with her love of learning, she enjoys sailing, surfing, and running.

I study the evolution of midwater animals with a focus on functional morphology and biodiversity of invertebrates. I want to know who is out there in the largest living space on earth and what they are doing, how they perceive their environment, and how they interact with other members of the midwater community. I primarily … Continued

Dr. Kakani Katija is a Bioengineer, Principal Engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Originally an Aerospace Engineer (BSc from University of Washington and MSc from Caltech), Kakani received a PhD in Bioengineering from the California Institute of Technology. As lead … Continued

I am a marine biologist specializing in Biological Oceanography, with a strong focus on Antarctic pinnipeds, trophic ecology, and marine litter pollution. I obtained my B.Sc. in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (ARG) and completed my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil. … Continued

John A. Burns, PhD is a Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences who studies how genetic information shapes the functions, behaviors, and roles of cells and organisms across the tree of life. His research ranges from the molecular to the ecological: he has developed computational tools to predict how cells feed and … Continued

I am a vision scientist trying to understand how animals see their world. This involves working out how eyes work and how they enable animal behaviour. My work involves comparing vision in a wide range of animals, such as ants and crabs, crocodiles, lizards, fish, sharks, dunnarts, and deep-sea amphipods. Born and raised in Switzerland, … Continued