OEB News
Prashant
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.
Edward
O. Wilson delivered
the 2010 John M. Prather Lectures
in Biology. Videos of
all three talks are now available
to view
online.
Pictured
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.
Andrew
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.
A
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.OEB Research in Focus:
Current Research Areas
- Biodiversity & Systematics
- Biology of Marine Systems
- Biomechanics & Physiology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Mathematical & Computational Biology
- Neuroethology & Behavioral Ecology
- Paleobiology
- Population & Evolutionary Genetics
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
The OEB concentration provides opportunities for students to study biological diversity in the field, whether close to home or abroad.
Graduate Program
OEB Graduate students participate in collaborative forefront research in their chosen area of study.