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BIO 191.01, 297.01

The Cunningham Lab

Molecular Systematics and
Biogeography of Marine Organisms

Cliff Cunningham
Department of Biology
Duke University
Box 90338
Durham, NC 27708
Phone 919-660-7356
cliff@duke.edu

SEEPC: An NSF collaboration to study connectivity between
Cold Methane Seeps in the Western Atlantic

• Cunningham Lab (Duke Campus)/Van Dover Lab (Duke Marine Lab)
  Next Gen Sequencing to infer directionality of dispersal between seeps

• Craig Young/Svetlana Maslokova- Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
  MOCNESS larval trapping and barcoding to identify where deep sea larvae can be found

• Ruoying He/David Eggleston- NC State
  Parameterizing and designing 3D ocean circulation models
  

CORONA

(Coordinating Research On the North Atlantic)

An NSF research coordination network
to study the trans-Atlantic biota

• Coordinating trans-Atlantic phylogeographic projects and tissue collection across all taxa

• Compiling a virtual handbook of trans-Atlantic species found in Europe and North America

• Coordinating comparative ecological trans-Atlantic studies between European, Canadian, Icelandic, and American scientists

• Synthesizing our knowledge of biogeographic histories of North Atlantic Species with paleontological and oceanographical data

• Synthesizing long-term benthic ecological sampling with long-term oceanographic data

Arthropod Phylogenomics

• Goal of 100 nuclear protein coding genes from 85 arthropod taxa

• Multiple origins of the crab-like form

Hydrozoan PEET Project

• Revising the Hydractiniidae, Stylasteriidae and Campanulariidae

• A bibliographical database for Hydrozoan Taxonomy

• The Hydrozoan Sequencing Project

Evaluating Phylogenetic and
Population Genetic Methods

• 6-parameter Parsimony

• Ancestral State Reconstruction

• Experimental Population Genetics