David Cannatella
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Integrative Biology
- Texas Field Station Network
- Biodiversity Center
Associate Director for Collections, Biodiversity Center
Contact Information
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Room Number:121A
Biography
David Cannatella had his first faculty position at Louisiana State University in the Museum of Natural Sciences, where he served also as the Curator of Amphibians. Following this, he moved to The University of Texas at Austin in 1990, first as a research curator and then later as tenured faculty.
Research
Students and postdoctoral researchers in the Cannatella Kab investigate evolutionary patterns and processes in selected branches of the Tree of Life. Some areas of interest are:
- Phylogenetics and systematics
- Phylogenomics of amphibians
- Biodiversity and natural history of Neotropical frogs
- Signal evolution in mating calls
- Behavioral ecology of poison frogs
- Bioinformatics
Cannatella serves as Department Chair and as the Associate Director of the UT Biodiversity Center.
Research Areas
- Biodiversity, Ecology or Sustainability
- Evolution
Fields of Interest
- Evolutionary Biology
- Computational Biology
- Comparative Biology and Phylogenetics
Education
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1986-1988, University of Caifornia, Berkeley
- PhD in Systematics, 1985, University of Kansas
- MPh in Systematics, 1980, University of Kansas
- MS in Systematics, 1978, University of Kansas
- BS in Zoology, minors in Botany and Philosophy, 1976, University of Southwestern Louisiana