CONNIE J. (KOLMAN) MULLIGAN
Address: Department
of Anthropology
409
Genetics Institute
Cancer/Genetics
Research Complex
Telephone: (352) 273-8092 (office), (352) 273-8091
(lab)
Fax: (352)
273-8284
E-mail: mulligan@anthro.ufl.edu
POSITIONS
HELD
2005 – present Associate Professor, Department of
Anthropology,
2003 – present Associate Director,
1999 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,
1998 - 2000 National Research Council Senior Research Associate, National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
1996 - 1998 Research Biologist,
1995 - 1996 Research Associate, Conservation Analytical Laboratory,
Smithsonian Institution
1991 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute,
1990 - 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
EDUCATION
1990 Ph.D.,
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Prof. Dieter Söll,
1985
M.Phil.,
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
1983 B.S.,
Honors Biology and Chemistry,
GRANTS
2007 NSF REU supplement for grant BCS-0518530, Human dispersals out of
2007 NSF
Grant, “Domestication of the donkey: Aridity, mobility, and the development of
the African pastoral societies”, PI-Dr. Fiona Marshall,
2006 NSF supplement for grant BCS-0518530, Human dispersals out of
2005 NSF
Grant BCS-0518530, “Human dispersals out of
2005 NSF
Grant, “Domestication of the donkey: Aridity, mobility, and the development of
the African pastoral societies”, PI-Dr. Fiona Marshall,
2002 NSF
Grant BCS-0129721, "Acquisition of an automated DNA analysis system",
$42,000 with matching funds from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
2/1/02 (PI)
2001 NIH
Grant R03 AA12906, "Genotype:phenotype
associations in alcoholism and alcohol-related disorders", $144,500,
5/11/01-5/31/03 (PI)
2001 NIH
Training Grant AA07561-09, "Training in alcohol and neurodegenerative
disease", $191,391, 7/1/93-6/30/03 (1 of 15 preceptors)
2001
University
of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Award, "Molecular
analysis of select Asian populations to aid in reconstructing the genetic
history of east Asia", $15,000, 5/1/01-4/30/02 (PI)
1998
National
Research Council Senior Research Associateship Award
1994
Smithsonian
Institution Molecular Evolution Postdoctoral Fellowship
1993
Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research Conference Grant (Co-PI with Eldredge Bermingham)
1992
Smithsonian
Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship
1991
Smithsonian
Institution Short-term Fellowship
1990
PUBLICATIONS
(I have published as Mulligan, Kolman, and Kline)
Non
Clarimon J,
Gray RR, Williams LN, Enoch MA, Robin RW, Albaugh B,
Singleton A, Goldman D, Mulligan CJ.
2007. Linkage disequilibrium and association analysis of alpha synuclein (SNCA) and alcohol and drug dependence in
two American Indian populations, Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research, 31:546-554.
Ascunce MS, Hasson E, Zunino G, Mulligan CJ, Mudry
MD. 2007. Mitochondrial
sequence diversity of the southernmost extant
Ascunce MS, Kitchen A,
Schmidt PR, Miyamoto MM, Mulligan CJ. An unusual pattern of
ancient DNA mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in northern African cattle, Zoological Studies, in press.
Mulligan CJ,
Kitchen A, Miyamoto MM. 2006.
Comment on “Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity
in animals”, Science, 314:1390.
Gray RR, Mulligan CJ, Molini BJ, Sun ES, Giacani L, Godornes C, Kitchen A,
Lukehart SA, Centurion-Lara A. 2006. Molecular
evolution of the tprC, D, I, K, G, and J genes in the pathogenic genus Treponema, Molecular Biology
and Evolution, 23(11): 2220-2233.
Tarskaia L, Gray RR, Burkley B, Mulligan CJ. 2006. Genetic variation
at the mitochondrial DNA 9-bp repeat locus in the Sakha of Siberia, Human Biology, 78:179-198.
Mulligan CJ. 2006. Anthropological applications of
ancient DNA: Problems and prospects, American
Antiquity, 71:365-380.
Mulligan CJ. 2005. Isolation and analysis of DNA
from archaeological, clinical, and natural history specimens, in: Methods in Enzymology,
Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, Part B (Zimmer EA and Roalson E, eds),
395:87-103.
Mulligan CJ, Hunley K, Cone S, Long
JC. 2004. Population genetics, history, and health patterns in Native
Americans, Annual Review of Genomics and
Human Genetics, 5(1): 295-315.
Mulligan
CJ, Robin RW,
Osier MV, Sambuughin N,
Goldfarb LG, Kittles RA, Diane Hesselbrock,
Goldman D, Long JC. 2003.
Allelic variation at alcohol metabolism genes (ADH1B, ADH1C, ALDH2)
and alcohol dependence in an American Indian population, Human Genetics, 113:325-336.
Sun, G, McGarvey ST, Bayoumi R, Mulligan
CJ, Barrantes R, Raskin
S, Zhong Y, Akey J, Chakraborty R, Deka R. 2003.
Global genetic variation at nine short tandem repeat loci and implications on
forensic genetics, European Journal of Human Genetics, 11:39-49.
Kolman
CJ, Tuross N. 2000. Ancient DNA analysis of human
populations, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 111: 5-23.
Kolman
CJ, Centurion-Lara A, Lukehart SA, Owsley D, Tuross N. 2000. Identification of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum in a 200-year-old skeletal
specimen, Journal of Infectious Diseases,
180: 2060-2063.
Kolman
CJ. 1999. Molecular
anthropology: Progress and perspectives on ancient DNA technology, in: Genomic Diversity: Applications in Human
Population Genetics, eds. Papiha SS and Deka R., Plenum Publishing, New York, pp. 183-200.
Batista O, Kolman CJ, Arias TD, Guionneau-Sinclair
F, Quiroz E, Bermingham E. 1998. Variación en el ADNmt de dos tribus amerindias chibchas, los ngöbé y cuna de Panamá, Memorias del I Congreso Científico sobre Pueblos Indígenas de Costa
Rica y sus Fronteras,
Universidad Estatal a Distancia,
San José, Costa Rica, pp.15-35.
Kolman
CJ, Bermingham E. 1997.
Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA diversity in the Chocó and Chibcha
Amerinds of Panamá, Genetics, 147: 1289-1302.
Iwanaga KK, Eberle M, Kolman CJ, Bermingham E, Watkins DI. 1997. Further diversification of the HLA-B locus in Central American
Amerindians: New B*39 and B*51 alleles in the Kuna of Panamá, Tissue
Antigens, 50: 251-257.
Kolman
CJ, Sambuughin
N, Bermingham E. 1996. Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Mongolian populations and
implications for the origin of
Batista O, Kolman CJ, Bermingham E. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the
Kuna Amerinds of Panamá, Human Molecular Genetics, 4: 921-929.
Kolman
CJ, Bermingham E, Cooke
R, Ward RH, Arias T, Guionneau-Sinclair F. 1995. Reduced mtDNA diversity in the Ngöbé Amerinds of Panamá, Genetics, 140:275-283.
Kolman
CJ, Tuross N, Cooke R,
Bermingham E. 1994. Molecular genetics of contemporary and ancient Amerind
populations in Panamá, Ancient DNA Newsletter,
2: 17-18.
Kolman C,
Söll D. 1993. SPL1-1, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant
affecting tRNA splicing, Journal of Bacteriology, 175: 1433-1442.
Kolman
CJ, Toth
J, Gonda D. 1992. Identification of a portable
determinant of cell cycle function within the carboxyl-terminal domain of the
yeast CDC34 (UBC3) ubiquitin conjugating (E2) enzyme,
EMBO, 11: 3081-3090.
Kolman JL, Kolman CJ, Miller G. 1992.
Marked variation in the size of genomic plasmids among
members of a family of related Epstein-Barr viruses, Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences
USA, 89: 7772-7776.
Kolman
CJ, Snyder M, Söll D. 1988.
Genomic organization of tRNA and aminoacyl-tRNA
synthetase genes for two amino acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Genomics, 3: 201-206.
Ollis D, Kline CJ, Steitz TA. 1985. Domain of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase showing
sequence homology to T7 DNA polymerase, Nature,
313: 818-819.
REPORTS
-
Tuross N and Kolman
CJ. 2000. Potential for DNA testing of the human remains from
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Service to the department (past two years only)
Student
Financial Award Committee, 2005 - 2006
Advisory
Committee, 2002 – 2006
Service for the college and
university.
1) Mentor for UF Women’s Leadership Council
Mentoring Program, a mentoring program for undergraduate women, 2006-present
2) UF review panel for NSF PIRE
pre-proposals, 2006
3) Member, Organizing committee, Florida
Genetics conference, 2005 and 2007
4) Associate director, UF Genetics
Institute, 2003-present
5) UF Genetics Institute Executive
Committee, 2001-present
6) Chair, CLAS Genetics Institute Committee,
2001-present
Service for the profession
1) Associate
Editor for Molecular Biology and Evolution – 2006 – present
2)
NSF Physical
Anthropology Senior Grants Panel, 2005 - present
3)
NSF Physical Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant Panel, 2004-2005
4)
Reviewed
nominees for MacArthur fellowships, Feb 2001 and April 2004
5)
Ad hoc reviewer for Addiction Biology, African Archaeological Review, AIDS, American Journal of Human Biology,
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Annals of Human Genetics, Archives
of General Psychiatry, Human Biology, Journal
of Archaeological Science Journal of Molecular Evolution, Molecular
Biology and Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and
Evolution, Molecular Psychiatry, Proceedings: Biological Science Society for
American Archaeology
6)
Ad hoc reviewer for NIH, NSF and US Department
of Justice
7)
Special
expert, United States Department of Justice and United States Department of
Interior, Court case on human remains from
Public outreach
1) Mentor for UF
Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Program, a mentoring program for
undergraduate women, 2006-present
2) Featured speaker,
UF Institute for Learning in Retirement, Genome and the Concept of Race, Jan
11, 2006
3) Featured
speaker, Genetics and Race, A Question of Race Mini Conference, Anti-Racism
Coalition and WUFT-TV,
4) Featured interviewee, NPR radio show, The
Glenn Mitchell show, KERA,