Martín Tresguerres is a professor in the Marine Biology Research Division (MBRD) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

His research program integrates physiology, evolutionary biology, and environmental adaptation to understand how organisms perform in changing environments at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. His laboratory focuses on symbiosis, neurobiology, and biomineralization, and their integration with acid-base regulation, energy metabolism, and signal transduction pathways in phytoplankton, corals, fish and other diverse taxa. This comparative approach provides unique insights into evolutionary convergence in cellular mechanisms that takes into account the ecology of each organism.

Tresguerres is dedicated to mentoring, outreach, and expanding scientific capacity in Latin America.

He earned an M.S. from the University of Buenos Aires in Aquatic Biology, a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in Physiology and Cell Biology, and completed his postdoc at Weill Cornell in molecular chemosensors.

He joined SIO-UCSD in 2010, served as MBRD Director from 2018-2022, and is the leader of the Allen Discovery Center in Neurobiology in Changing Environments (ADC-NiCE). Among other honors and awards, Tresguerres was selected as a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.

Last updated October 2025