Current Projects

Project Title Organism Year
Assembling the Liverwort Tree of Life: A Window into the Evolution and Diversification of Early Land Plants

PIs: Jonathan ShawReed BeamanBarbara Crandall-StotlerRaymond StotlerJohn EngelBernard GoffinetYin-Long QiuKaren RenzagliaNico CellineseMatt von Konrat

Liverwort 2005
Phylogeny of Lepidoptera: A Genomics-inspired, Community Collaboration

PIs: Michael P. CummingsDonald DavisCharles MitterCynthia ParrJerome Regier Susan Weller

Lepidoptera 2005
3-D Phylo-informatics

PIs: Julian HumphriesDaniel MirankerTim Rowe

Infrastructure 2005
Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life

PIs: Gonzalo GiribetMark MartindaleWard WheelerGreg EdgecombeGreg Rouse • Martin Sorensen Elaine SeaverRobert DeSalle

Protostome 2005
Assembling the Beetle Tree of Life

PIs: Brian FarrellDavid MaddisonMichael WhitingJohn HeratyMichael IvieJoseph McHughMargaret ThayerAlfred Newton

Beetle 2005
Morphological and Molecular Phylogeny of the Decapod Crustaceans

PIs: Keith CrandallDarryl FelderRodney FeldmannNikki HaneganJoel Martin Carrie Schweitzer

Decapod Crustaceans 2005
An Integrative Approach to Investigating Cnidarian Phylogeny

PIs: Paulyn CartwrightNeil BlackstoneCliff CunninghamMarymegan DalyDaniel MartinezCatherine McFadden Scott FranceSandra Romano

Cnidarian Phylogeny 2005
Ant Phylogeny: A Comprehensive Evolutionary Tree for the World's Premier Social Organisms

PIs: Phillip WardBrian Fisher • Ted Schultz • Sean Brady

Ants 2004
Reconstructing Eukaryotic Phylogeny through Multigene Analyses of Microbial Eukaryotes

PIs: Laura KatzDonald BurgessDebashish Bhattacharya John HuelsenbeckJohn LogsdonDavid Patterson

Microbial Eukaryotes 2004
The Angiosperm Tree of Life: Resolving the Trunk of the Tree and 12 of its Thorniest Nodes

PIs: Douglas Soltis Richard Olmstead Kenneth SytsmaYin-Long Qiu Michael Donoghue Khidir Hilu Michael SandersonCharles Davis Walter Judd Steven ManchesterPamela Soltis Reed Beaman Nico Cellinese Leo Hickey Kenneth Wurdack

Angiosperms 2004
Systematics of Cypriniformes, Earth's Most Diverse Clade of Freshwater Fishes

PIs: Richard Mayden Nevin Aspinwall Robert Wood Andrew SimonsHenry BartNelson Rios Phillip HarrisMiles Coburn Gloria ArratiaPaula Mabee

Bony Fishes 2004
Building the Dipteran Tree: Cooperative Research in Phylogenetics and Bioinformatics of True Flies (Insecta: Diptera)

PIs: Brian Wiegmann Gregory W. CourtneyMarkus FriedrichMeier Rudolf David K. Yeates Michael Irwin

Flies 2003
The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Higher Level Squamate Phylogeny Using Genomic and Morphological Approaches

PIs: Tod Reeder John Wiens Maureen Kearney Jack SitesOliver Rieppel Jessica Maisano Jacques Gauthier

Squamate 2003
An Integrated Approach to the Origin and Diversification of Protostomes

PIs: Gonzalo GiribetMark MartindaleWard Wheeler Elaine SeaverRobert DeSalle Greg Edgecombe Greg Rouse

Protostomes 2003
AmphibiaTree--An Integrated Phylogenetic and Bioinformatics Approach to the Tree of Amphibians

PIs: David Cannatella David HillisS. Blair HedgesJames Hanken Linda Trueb David WakeMarvalee H. Wake Rafe Brown

Amphibians 2003
The Tree of Life Project: A Digital Library of Biodiversity Information

PIs: David R. Maddison Katja-Sabine Schulz Jeremy FrumkinJennifer Franklin

Infrastructure 2003
HymAtol

PIs: Michael Sharkey Fredrik Ronquist James CarpenterMichael EngelJohn Heraty

Hymenoptera 2003
A Phylogenomic Toolbox for Assembling the Tree of Life Molecular Sequence Databases

PIs: Michael SandersonOliver Eulenstein Junhyong Kim David Fernandez-BacaAmy Driskell

Infrastructure 2003
Coevolutionary Relationships in a New Marine Symbiosis

PI: Mary Beth Saffo

Nephromyces 2003
Historical Inference in the Emberizinae (Aves: Passeriformes) Using a Complete Species-Level Phylogeny

PIs: John Klicka Kevin Burns Scott Lanyon

Birds 2003
Archosaur Phylogeny – A Total Evidence Approach at Fine Taxonomic Levels

PIs: Mark NorellJoel Cracraft Geoerge F. Barrowclough Allan BakerBradley Livezey James Clark Christopher BrochuJohn GatesyPeter J. Makovicky

Archosaurs 2002
Early Bird: A Collaborative Project to Resolve the Deep Nodes of Avian Phylogeny

PIs: Shannon Hackett Rebecca Kimball William Moore Fred SheldonDavid SteadmanEdward Braun

Birds 2002
Phylogeny of Spiders

PIs: Ward Wheeler Jonathan Coddington Gustavo Hormiga Lorenzo Prendini Petra Sierwald Jason Bond Marshal Hedin

Spiders 2002
Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

PIs: Joseph Spatafora David S. Hibbett Francois Lutzoni David McLaughlinRytas Vilgalys

Fungi 2002
Phylum Nematoda: Integrating Multidisciplinary Expertise and Infrastructure for resolving Relationships in a Major Branch of the Tree of Life

PIs: James G. BaldwinPaul De LeyDavid H. Fitch Steven A. NadlerW. Kelley Thomas

Nematodes 2002
Deep Green Plant Phylogenetics:  Novel Analytical Methods for Scaling from Genomics to Morphology

PIs: Charles O'KellyMichael DonoghueDina Mandoli Brent MishlerKaren RenzagliaPaul Wolf Jeffrey BooreAlan SmithRod Wing Richard Olmstead

Plants 2002
Phylogenomics:  A Genome Level Approach to Assembling the Bacterial Branches of the Tree of Life

PIs: Jonathan EisenNaomi WardKaren NelsonFrank Robb

Bacterial 2002
Wormnet: Reconstructing The Early Evolution Of Segmented Annelid Worms

PIs: Kenneth Halanych Mark Martindale Jeffrey Boore • Damhnait McHugh

Annelids 2001
Hexapod Phylogenomics - Bringing Phylogenetic Supercomputing to the Masses

PIs: Michael Whiting Keith CrandallDavid WhitingMark ClementQuinn Snell

Hexapod 2001
Deep Arthropods

PIs: Cliff Cunningham Jerome Regier Joel MartinJeffrey ThorneJeffrey Schultz

Arthropods 2001
Chloroplast genomics

PIs: Robert JansenTandy WarnowLinda RaubesonPaul PredkiClaude de PamphilisBernard Moret

Plants/Organelle 2001

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