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and high-schooler Lamia wins the Lynika Strozier Intership Award - so proud of them!

With the first genomes of the phylum, we show they lack the genetic machinery to produce cilia. See this Twitter thread for a summary!

Check out the first find of a Halloween molting gene outside of panarthropods.

Tens of species collected together with a great team from the University of Barcelona.

Take a look to find out what makes the genomes of velvet worms so large!
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We found over 100 species, half of which had never been recorded in the archipelago before. Check out this Twitter thread for a …

I will be testing the use of historical museum specimens for genomics research at Field Museum.

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Click for photos of the conference and to see my plenary talk.
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Surveying diversity for future projects with snorkeling and leaf litter.
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Check out my winning photo and all other great shots by fellows and interns of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
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Our >500-species molecular and morphological phylogeny places horseshoe crabs among arachnids, and highlights a scenario of multiple …

Come for a thorough exploration of sources of conflict, stay for the beauty that are abalones, top snails, and so many others!

Click to see my talk at the Population Genetics and Phylogeography session: Population connectivity of an endangered gastropod across …

Click to see my talk (Spanish) at the II Simposio Latinoamericano de Genética de Moluscos: Datos genómicos para la filogenia de …
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My departmental seminar at STRI: Gastropod phylogenomics and biogeography across 400 million years
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Click to see my talk on Congruence and Conflict in Phylogenomics, and for more info on this great meeting!

Got a Global Genome Initiative grant to sequence genomes and support my work on population genetics and connectivity of gastropods!

Fresh start as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute! Click to learn more.

Presented my work in the ecology seminar series at Unicamp and USP, in Brazil. Fun time seeing great friends! Click for more info.

Gastropod phylogeny and evolution of shell shape at the WCM. Also diving at the beautiful Monterey Bay area. Click for pics!
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Click to see her poster presentation on barcoding of Maldivian sea slugs and snails!

Evolution of shell shape at the Evolution meeting 2019. Please stop by my poster tomorrow (Sat, June 22)! Click for more info.
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I am now Dr. Tauana Cunha! Click for pics.

In this paper we build a calibrated phylogeny for the diverse and widespread keyhole limpets, and used geographical information to …

Curious about how gastropods (snails, limpets and slugs) are related? Interested in phylogenomic methods applied to ancient and short …

Celebrating halloween with the first preprint of my PhD: Deep gastropod relationships resolved. Check it out to see how different …

Returning after four weeks of visiting invertebrate paleontology collections. Click to see photos and videos of the work.

Just got the wonderful news that my application was selected for a Faculty for the Future Fellowship! Recipients are women in STEM …

After a great semester with many leading researchers coming to talk to us about all sorts of topics and software on phylogeography and …

Click to see him photographing and measuring fossil shells.

In OEB-Harvard, all fourth year students present to the whole department in the G4 Symposium. It is one of the milestones of our …

Just found out that my application was selected for a Merit Fellowship from Harvard GSAS! (Award from the John Parker Bequest, 1873)

Just got the awesome news that my NSF DDIG was approved! Gastropod shell morphology, here we go!

Got a second Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for my teaching of ‘Biology and Evolution of …

Just received the Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists! Let’s go, gastropods!

I was awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for my teaching of ‘Biology and Evolution of …