Expertise

Research and Teaching Interests:

  • Systematics and phylogeography of marine invertebrates

Subject area:

  • Evolutionary Genetics & Systematics Core.

One of the primary lines of research in the lab is to understand the evolutionary relationships among major animal lineages.

Halanych Lab Projects:

  • Animal Phylogeny
  • Icy Inverts: Evolution of Antarctic Invertebrates
  • Hemichordate Phylogeny
  • Siboglinids & chemosynthetic environments
  • Meiofaunal environmental genomics & hydrocarbon response
  • Genomics & Bioinformatics
  • Early Evolution of Animals.
Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University
2006

Schneller Endowed Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University

Alumni Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Mathematics, Auburn University

Assistant Scientist, MIT/Woods Hole Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering, Research and Graduate Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (past)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Communities
Biological Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Zoology, 1994
BS, Wake Forest University, Zoology, 1988
Keywords
biological sciences