Jayde Zimmerman

Senior Research Technician
Microbiology

Jayde is a Senior Research Technician in the Microbiology Department at SCCWRP. Her research focuses on quantifying gene in changes expression in knockout mutants and molecular techniques.

She earned a M.S. in biology with an emphasis on molecular genetics from California State University, Long Beach in 2023 and a B.S. in molecular biology from the University of Tampa in 2018. She joined SCCWRP in 2023.

Education

M.S., biology, California State University, Long Beach, 2023

B.S., molecular biology, University of Tampa, 2018

Professional Experience

Senior Research Technician, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA. 2024-present

Research Technician, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA. 2024

Laboratory Assistant, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Costa Mesa, CA. 2023-2024

Research Assistant, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. 2021-2023

Teaching Assistant, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. 2021-2023

GIS Lead, Exzeo USA. Tampa, FL. 2018-2021

Honors and Awards

Departmental Graduate Student Honors. 2024

Awarded Best Poster Presentation of Independent Study or Co-Curricular Research. 2016

Publications


Journal Articles

Zimmerman, J.A., B. Verboonen, A.P. Harrison Hanson, L.R. Arballo, J.A. Brusslan. 2024. Arabidopsis apoplast TET8 positively correlates to leaf senescence, and tet3tet8 double mutants are delayed in leaf senescence. Plant Direct 8(9). doi: 10.1002/pld3.70006. PMID: 39323734; PMCID: PMC11422175.