After weeks of hard work with extracting and cleaning HMW DNA, the first batch of data is finally here for Kussum’s freshwater mussel!

The first graduation of Cunha Lab members as Bachelors in Biology and Bioinformatics!

Undergrad Afrah Khan and MS students Sofia Orellana and Kussum Ghimire present the first posters coming from the Cunha Lab at Loyola research symposia!

Genome assembly, here we come!

about her PhD work on polychaete genomes, population structure, and adaptation!

Short field trip to our partner institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, for students to get to know the wet and dry collections!

Sofi and Kussum (MS in Bioinformatics and Biology, respectively) pass their milestone thesis proposals!

Who knew that just a few months in and we would have such an amazing group!

Browse our Research page and reach out if interested in joining us in biodiversity genomics!

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!

We found over 100 species, half of which had never been recorded in the archipelago before. Check out this Twitter thread for a summary!

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

Beautiful weather to celebrate the fresh start of my postdoctoral position at the Field Museum of Natural History!

Click for photos of the conference and to see my plenary talk.

Click for photos and project details.

Surveying diversity for future projects with snorkeling and leaf litter.

Check out my winning photo and all other great shots by fellows and interns of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Our >500-species molecular and morphological phylogeny places horseshoe crabs among arachnids, and highlights a scenario of multiple events of colonization of land by chelicerates.

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 the Mediterranean

Click to see my talk (Spanish) at the II Simposio Latinoamericano de Genética de Moluscos: Datos genómicos para la filogenia de gasterópodos

My departmental seminar at STRI: Gastropod phylogenomics and biogeography across 400 million years

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!

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.

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 estimate their distribution through time.

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

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

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 program and everyone did so great!

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!

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