Biography:Jennifer Martiny
Jennifer Bellanca Hughes Martiny | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego Stanford University |
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| Institutions | University of California, Irvine Technical University of Denmark Stanford University |
| Thesis | From populations to ecosystems studies on the distribution, importance, and loss of biodiversity (1999) |
| Website | Martiny Lab |
Jennifer B. H. Martiny is an American ecologist who is a professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her research considers microbial diversity in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. In 2025 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Early life and education
Martiny studied as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego.[1][2] It was here that she first became interested in ecology, including studying tropical biology and conservation abroad in Costa Rica.[1] After graduating with her bachelor's degree, she joined Stanford University as a graduate student, studying conservation biology with Paul Ehrlich and Gretchen Daily.[2] Her doctoral research considered the distribution and loss of biodiversity.[3] Martiny stayed at Stanford as a postdoctoral researcher with Brendan Bohannan, where she started working on microorganisms.
Research and career
Martiny studies the ecology and evolution of microbial communities (microbiomes) generally, but particularly in soil.[4] She focuses on the mechanisms that create and maintain microbial diversity, and how this diversity impacts the functioning of ecosystems. She started her independent scientific career at Brown University, where she established her own laboratory in 2000. Here she built on her work to quantify microbial diversity patterns in the environment[5] and began to study the biogeographic patterns of bacteria.[6]
In 2006 Martiny moved to the University of California, Irvine (UCI).[1] Martiny serves as co-Director of the UCI Center for Microbiome Science with Katrine Whiteson. She has investigated the impact of drought on the microbial diversity of soil.[7] She was announced as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark in 2020.[8]
Awards and honours
- 2005 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation[9]
- 2011 National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow[10]
- 2012 VELUX Visiting Professor to Copenhagen University
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America[11]
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology[12]
- 2017 University of California, Irvine Chancellor's Fellow[13]
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[14][15]
- 2025 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[16]
Selected publications
- Whitmore, T. C.; Santisuk, T. (1989). "Putting Thailand on the Map-Almost!". Journal of Biogeography 16 (5): 495. doi:10.2307/2845112. ISSN 0305-0270.
- Baho, Didier L.; Peter, Hannes; Tranvik, Lars J. (2012-04-19). "Resistance and resilience of microbial communities - temporal and spatial insurance against perturbations". Environmental Microbiology 14 (9): 2283–2292. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02754.x. ISSN 1462-2912. PMID 22513226. Bibcode: 2012EnvMi..14.2283B.
- Hughes, Jennifer B.; Hellmann, Jessica J.; Ricketts, Taylor H.; Bohannan, Brendan J. M. (2001-10-01). "Counting the Uncountable: Statistical Approaches to Estimating Microbial Diversity" (in en). Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67 (10): 4399–4406. doi:10.1128/AEM.67.10.4399-4406.2001. ISSN 0099-2240. PMID 11571135. Bibcode: 2001ApEnM..67.4399H.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Faculty Spotlight - Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Ph.D." (in en-US). 2016-12-09. https://www.bio.uci.edu/jennifer-martiny/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "people | jennifer martiny lab". https://jmartiny.bio.uci.edu/styled/index.html.
- ↑ Hughes, Jennifer B (1999) (in en). From populations to ecosystems studies on the distribution, importance, and loss of biodiversity. OCLC 741501311. https://books.google.com/books?id=3spEAQAAIAAJ.
- ↑ Martiny, Jennifer. "Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective". Science 350. doi:10.1126/science.aac9323.
- ↑ Hughes, Jennifer. "Counting the uncountable: statistical approaches to estimating microbial diversity". Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 4399-4406. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.67.10.4399-4406.2001.
- ↑ Hughes Martiny, Jennifer. "Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the map". Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro1341.
- ↑ "UCI scientists awarded $2.7 million for soil nutrient microbiome research" (in en). https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/uoc--usa082919.php.
- ↑ "CeMiSt to host Professor Jennifer Martiny from University of California, Irvine - CeMist" (in en). https://cemist.dtu.dk/news/2020/09/cemist-to-host-professor-jennifer-martiny-from-university-of-california-irvine?id=0aaf107a-b2d5-4ad9-ac9e-39749e3f0c6b.
- ↑ "Grant Detail". https://www.moore.org/grant-detail?grantId=GBMF689.02.
- ↑ "Jennifer Martiny". http://www.nasonline.org/programs/kavli-frontiers-of-science/frontiers-alumni/alumni-directory/jennifer-martiny.html.
- ↑ "Ecological Society of America Recognizes School of Biological Sciences Professors" (in en-US). 2017-03-01. https://www.bio.uci.edu/esa-ayala-professors/.
- ↑ "American Academy of Microbiology Fellow" (in en-US). 2017-05-09. https://www.bio.uci.edu/microbiology-fellow/.
- ↑ "A Message from Frank M. LaFerla". 2020-11-27. http://ecoevo.bio.uci.edu/files/2013/06/Professor-Jennifer-Martiny-selected-as-Chancellors-Fellow-March-2018.pdf.
- ↑ "AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science" (in en). https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2020-fellows.
- ↑ "Nine Honored as AAAS Fellows (Jennifer Martiny and Travis Huxman)" (in en-US). https://ecoevo.bio.uci.edu/2020/11/24/nine-honored-as-aaas-fellows-jennifer-martiny-and-travis-huxman/.
- ↑ "Jennifer B. H. Martiny | American Academy of Arts and Sciences" (in en). 2025-09-29. https://www.amacad.org/person/jennifer-b-h-martiny.
External links
UCI Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series - Dr. Jennifer Martiny
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