Welcome to Maria Pia's Webpage
 

    Maria Pia Miglietta
    Research Assistant Professor
    Department of Biological Sciences
    University of Notre Dame
    100 Galvin Life Sciences Center,
    Notre Dame, IN, 46556
 

My CV

My Publications

My FIeld trips

My research

I study ecology and evolution of a group of marine invertebrates.

I am interested in life cycle evolution.

And these are my favorite animals: the HYDROZOA (Cnidaria).




Click  here to see the typical hydrozoan life cycle.


COLLABORATORS

Here are some of the people I have collaborated with:

Cliff Cunningham - Duke University
Rachel Collin - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Haris Lessios - STRI
Marco Rossi - PennState
Peter Schuchert - Museum Histoire Naturelle, Geneva
Stefano Piraino - Universita' di Lecce


NEWS

• July 2010. I just moved to the department of biological sciences at the  UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, IN.

• JAN 3-7/ 2011. Mark the calendar! SICB Meeting, Salt Lake City, UTAH - Together with Francesco Santini (UCLA) and Anuschka Faucci (UH) I am organizing the symposium "SPECIATION IN THE SEA". 

• June 2009: Music composer Andreas Kapsalis records a beautiful piece written for acoustic guitar and dedicated to Turritopsis life cycle. Listen to Track #4!

• June 2009:  At the Evolution 2009 in Moscow, Idaho.
  

• Jan 2009: National Geographic News, CNN International and more, on "A silent invasion" & Turritopsis.

• Journal of Plankton Research - July 2008 - Journal Cover.

http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl