New CCMAR members: Cymon Cox
Cymon J. Cox, British, has been a researcher at the Centre Of Marine Sciences since June 2008. C. Cox is working in the bioinformatics field, a research line that led to a new working group with the same name.
Post-doctorate from the University of Reading, UK, Cymon Cox has worked previously at the Museum of Natural History in London and Duke University in Durham, United States.
Has a wide curriculum in international publications, magazine articles and scientific journals.
Developed fieldwork in Ecuador, Chile, Tierra del Fuego, Mexico and Norway and has also been a lecturer for 6 years.
The main aim of his research is the reconstruction of ancestral relationships between organisms, using for this purpose molecular and morphological data.
According to him, the evolutionary trees that result from this analysis tell us about the evolution of certain characters of organisms, biodiversity in past environments and provide us a background for further analysis of the current distribution of organisms.