Research

• Metazoan Phylogeny and Evolution
  • AToL Collaborative Research: Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life [NSF funded project until 2008]
• Molluscan Phylogeny and Evolution
  • BivAToL: Phylogeny on the half-shell—Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life [NSF funded project until 2012
  • Collaborative Research: Resolving old questions in Mollusc phylogenetics with new EST data and developing general phylogenomic tools. [NSF funded project]
• Arthropod Phylogeny, Evolution and Biogeography
  • PEET: Systematics and Monography of Araneoid Spiders [NSF funded project until 2009]
  • Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Opiliones (Cyphophthalmi and Laniatores)
  • Systematics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)
• Phylogeography and Evolution of Marine Invertebrates
  • NemPhyl: Reconstructing Nemertean Phylogeny using phylogenomic tools [Nemertean Consortium]
  • Sipuncula: Their Phylogeny and Phylogeography
• Theoretical Aspects on Phylogenetic Systematics and Biogeography