CONNIE J. (KOLMAN) MULLIGAN

               

Address:                     Department of Anthropology

409 Genetics Institute

                                    Cancer/Genetics Research Complex

                                    1376 Mowry Rd, PO Box 103610

                                    University of Florida

                                    Gainesville, FL 32610-3610

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, University of Florida

2003 – present    Associate Director, University of Florida Genetics Institute

1999 - 2005        Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida

1998 - 2000        National Research Council Senior Research Associate, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health

1996 - 1998        Research Biologist, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education

1995 - 1996        Research Associate, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution

1991 - 1995        Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panamá

1990 - 1991        Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

 

EDUCATION

1990         Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Prof. Dieter Söll, Yale University

1985                 M.Phil., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

1983         B.S., Honors Biology and Chemistry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

 

GRANTS

2007         NSF REU supplement for grant BCS-0518530, Human dispersals out of Africa: Mitochondrial and Y chromosomal genetic analysis of Eritrean and Omani populations, $8,000.00 (PI)

2007         NSF Grant, “Domestication of the donkey: Aridity, mobility, and the development of the African pastoral societies”, PI-Dr. Fiona Marshall, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, $5,600, 1/1/05-12/31/07 (contract)

2006         NSF supplement for grant BCS-0518530, Human dispersals out of Africa: Mitochondrial and Y chromosomal genetic analysis of Eritrean and Omani populations, $2,813.00 (PI)

2005         NSF Grant BCS-0518530, “Human dispersals out of Africa: Mitochondrial and Y chromosomal genetic analysis of Eritrean and Omani populations”, $311,708, 7/29/05-7/28/08 (PI)

2005         NSF Grant, “Domestication of the donkey: Aridity, mobility, and the development of the African pastoral societies”, PI-Dr. Fiona Marshall, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, $32,000, 1/1/05-12/31/07 (contract)

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)

 

FELLOWSHIPS

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         Yale University Postdoctoral Fellowship

 

PUBLICATIONS (I have published as Mulligan, Kolman, and Kline)

Non AL, Kitchen A, Mulligan CJ. Identification of the most informative regions of the mitochondrial genome for phylogenetic and coalescent analyses, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press, available online Dec 31, 2006.

Bhaskar LVKS, Thangaraj K, Shah AM, Pardhasaradhi G, Kumar KP, Reddy AG, Rao AP, Mulligan CJ, Singh L and Rao VR. 2007. Allelic variation at the NPY gene in 14 Indian populations, J Hum Genet, 52: 592-598.

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 New World monkey, Alouatta caraya, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43:202-215.

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 New World founders, Genetics, 142: 1321-1334.

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 Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington, Report to the Departments of Justice and Interior, http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/tuross_kolman.htm.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Service to the department (past two years only)

            Co-chair, Search committee for Medical Anthropology hire, 2005/2006

            Search committee for Department chair hire, 2005/2006

            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 Kennewick, Washington. Submitted a written report on the probability that DNA testing would be able to resolve the issue of identification of the Kennewick remains. Feb 3, 2000.

 

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, Gainesville, FL, Nov 11, 2003

4)      Featured interviewee, NPR radio show, The Glenn Mitchell show, KERA, Dallas, TX, Dec 2, 1999.