Welcome to Maria Pia's Webpage
 


  My Address is :
   Maria Pia Miglietta
   Department of Biology
   The Pennsylvania State University
   208 Mueller Lab.
   University Park, Pa 16802
   Tel: 814 863-8360

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

• 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