OEB News

lichen headstonesPrashant Sharma, a grad student in the Giribet Lab, received the Willi Hennig Award for the best oral presentation by a student at the May 2010 meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. The international organization promotes the field of phylogenetic systematics.
E O WilsonEdward O. Wilson delivered the 2010 John M. Prather Lectures in Biology. Videos of all three talks are now available to view online.
Anjan Bhullar and studentsPictured here with his students, OEB graduate student Bhart-Anjan Bhullar received a 2010 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. A member of the Abzhanov Lab, Anjan is the first teaching fellow from the biological sciences to receive this prestigeous university-wide award. Read more.
interview clipAndrew Biewener was a guest editor of a special feature entitled "Control and dynamics of animal movement" in the June 2010 issue of Biology Letters. Andy Biewener and co-editor Tom Daniel discussed the feature in an interview with Biology Letters' Wendy Barnaby. View the video podcast.
video clipA video about the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Initiative, featured in the HMNH’s exhibit EVOLUTION, is available to view online. The film includes interviews with E.O. Wilson, Jim Hanken, Gonzalo Giribet, and Brian Farrell. Watch video.

OEB Faculty Spotlight

OEB Strategic Partners

The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT and Harvard, created to bring the power of genomics to medicine. Colleen Cavanaugh, Dan Hartl, Maryellen Ruvolo, and Pardis Sabetiare associate members of the institute.

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OEB Research in Focus:


Current Research Areas


Groundbreaking research in the life sciences is now more interdisciplinary than ever and it is often the case that OEB faculty work in more than one of these areas.

Undergraduate Study

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The OEB concentration provides opportunities for students to study biological diversity in the field, whether close to home or abroad.

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Graduate Program


OEB Graduate students participate in collaborative forefront research in their chosen area of study.

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