OEB News

frogGrad student Dave Blackburn's study of the "Wolverine frog" from Africa—frogs with erectile claws—was one of the Top 10 Stories of 2008 reported by the journal Science.
Anne PringleAnne Pringle researches why explosively launched ascomycete fungal spores have drag-minimizing shapes. PNAS Abstract
EOL logoLaunch of the Encyclopedia of Life was one of Nature magazine’s 10 “biggest science stories of the year.” Nature
Gonzalo GiribetGonzalo Giribet's paper on metazoan phylogenomics, published in the journal Nature, was included in Discover magazine’s "top 100 Science Stories of 2008." Discover
Paul MoorcroftPaul Moorcroft is modeling the forest to provide a detailed view of responses to climate variation. Harvard Gazette

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. Dan Hartl, Anne Pringle, Maryellen Ruvolo, Pardis Sabeti and John Wakeley are 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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