Lisa Yeter Mesrop

• UCSB Graduate Opportunity Fellowship (September 2023-2024) $32,500
• Society Developmental Biology Emerging Research Organisms Grant (July 2022) $5,000
• USC Summer Wrigley Fellow - Lodging & Transportation (Summer 2022) $4,200
• CARES MSI UCSB Summer Grant (August 2022) $7,000
• USC Summer Wrigley Fellow - Lodging & Transportation (Summer 2021) $4,200
• Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grant (July 2021) $2,500
• Storke Summer Research Grant (June 2021) $2,500
• UC Santa Barbara Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology Block Grant (June 2021) $8208
• Worster Award for the development of graduate and undergraduate research (July 2021) $5,000
• UC Santa Barbara Department of Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology Block Grant (June 2020) $1,500

• Oral & Poster Presentation: European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Finland, 2024
• Oral Presentation: GIGA, Colombia, 2023
• Oral Presentation: Entomology, Two Harbors, 2023
• Oral Presentation: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, Pheonix, Arizona, 2022
• Poster Presentation: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Austin, Texas, 2020
• Oral & Poster Presentation: Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology Annual Meeting, New York, 2018

• Ostracod Collection Trip, Catalina Island (June 2024)
• HOT Cruise, R/V Kilo Moana (October 2018)
• Ostracod Collection Trip, Catalina Island (October 2019)
• Ostracod Collection Trip, Belize (September 2019)
• SIMONS, R/V Kilo Moana (June-July 2018)
• SPOT Monthly Day Cruise, R/V Yellowfin (Monthly, 2016-2018

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant

• Intro to Biology Lab, 2019, 2020
• Parasitology Lab, 2020, 2021
• Invertebrate Zoology Lab, 2020, 2021
• Macroevolution, 2021, 2022
• Molecular Evolution and Genomics, 2022

Mentor for Undergraduates 

• Riya Nilkant (UCSB), 2022-current
• Worster Summer Undergraduate Award, Murad Jah (UCSB), 2021
• Wrigley Catalina Summer Undergraduate Mentoring Program, Geetanjali Minsky (USCB), 2020
• Brian Im (USC), Isaiah Smith (USC), Melissa Abderrahim (USC), 2016-2018

Service & Outreach 

• Graduate Representative, Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA), 2023-current
• Co-Organizer, Novelty in Ecdysozoan Symposium for Entomology Conference, 2023
• Lead Organizer, USC Sea Grant Program - Bioluminescent Workshop, 2023
• Graduate Representative, EEMB LPSOE tenure-track faculty position Search Committee, 2023
• Guest Speaker - Conservation Genetics Course - California State University Monterey Bay, 2022 "Gene expression changes underlying the evolution of bioluminescence in bioluminescent ostracods"
• Co-Organizer, UCSB Summer Phylogenetic Bioinformatics Workshop for Undergraduates, 2021
• Volunteer, UCSB WiSE I HEART STEM, 2021 "The Ecology, Evolution, and Biochemistry of Bioluminescence"
• Volunteer, Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, 2019
• Co-Organizer, USC WiSE, 2018

1. Lisa Y. Mesrop, Gigi Minsky, Matt Hartt, Jessica Goodheart, Todd Oakley, Ancient secretory pathways contributed to the evolutionary origin of an ecologically impactful bioluminescence system, PNAS, Submitted, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.07.593075, 2024

2. Samantha J. Gleich, Lisa Y. Mesrop, Jacob A. Cram, J.L. Weissman, Sarah K. Hu, Yi-Chun Yeh, Jed A. Fuhrman, David A. Caron, With a little help from my friends: Importance of protist-protist interactions in structuring marine protistan communities in the San Pedro Channel, ISME, Submitted

3. Jennifer L. Beatty, Brittany P. Stewart, Lisa Y. Mesrop, Edward F. DeLong, David A. Caron, Different investigative approaches yield contrasting insights on protistan community structure across an eddy dipole in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Limnology and Oceanography, Submitted

4. Aide Macias-Muñoz, Lisa Y. Mesrop, Heidi Liang, Ali Mortazavi, Single-cell analysis reveals the molecular signaling and cellular composition of the regenerating Hydra head, GBE, Submitted, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.17.492329, 08/25/23

5. Gerid Ollison, Sarah K. Hu, Lisa Y. Mesrop, Edward DeLong, David A. Caron, Come Rain or Shine: Depth Not Season Shapes the Protistan Community at Station ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Deep Sea Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103494, 2021

6. Liu Z, Lisa Y.Mesrop, Hu SK, Caron DA, Transcriptome of Thalassicolla nucleata Holobiont Reveals Details of a Radiolarian Symbiotic Relationship, Front. Mar. Sci., 10.3389/fmars.2019.00284, 2019

7. Margaret Mars Brisbin, Lisa Y. Mesrop, Mary Matilda Grossmann, Satoshi Mitarai, Intra-host symbiont diversity and extended symbiont maintenance in photosymbiotic Acanthaera (clade F), J Eukaryot Microbiol, 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01998, 2018

8. Sarah K. Hu, Paige E. Connell, Lisa Y. Mesrop, David A. Caron, A Hard Day's Night: Diel shifts in microbial eukaryotic activity in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, J Eukaryot Microbiol, 10.3389/fmars.2018.00351, 2018

• Dr. Todd Oakley, Graduate Research Advisor, University of California, oakley@ucsb.edu, 805-893-4715
• Dr. Stephen Proulx, Graduate Research Advisor, University of California Santa Barbara, stephen.proulx@gmail.com,
• Dr. Soojin Yi, Committee Member, University of California Santa Barbara, soojinyi@ucsb.edu