Nuzhdin has published 206 peer reviewed manuscripts, in Science, PNAS, PLoS Biology, Current Biology, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications and others. His trainees have published 40 additional manuscripts from their more independent project in Nature, Nature Genetics, and other top-tier journals, without his co-authorship. Nuzhdin was a member of the top-rated UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Section for 10 years, and contributed to the development of evolution-embedded concepts, like genetic and transcriptome variation, before transitioning to the Molecular and Computational, adjunct in Marine and Environmental, Biology programs at USC in 2007. Nuzhdin has trained over 30 postdocs, three NRSA, one K99 recipient, and 40 graduate students, including 7 NSF GRF recipients. Of his previous trainees, 21 are now tenured or tenure-track investigators at Cornell, Princeton, Rice, UCSB, and others. He has PI’ed or Co-PI’ed 13 NIH, 9 NSF, 3 USDA, 3 USC Collaborative Fund, 2 USC Zumberge, 2 DOE, 2 EPA, 2 Sea Grant, and also DOD, USAid, MPOB, and Waitt grants, totaling over $35M. In recent decade, he moved from working on basic science population and quantitative genetics to breeding improvement and domestication in chickpea, soy, oil palm, black gram, sunflower, and also giant and sugar kelps. In 2022 he has co-founded and served as President and CEO of Kelp Ark, a 501(c)3 California nonprofit corporation, focused on the development of an algal seedbank for aquaculture and biofuel research, and mariculture education for students and our community, and protection and restoration of the marine environment.