OEB News
Grad
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
Pringle researches why
explosively launched ascomycete
fungal spores have drag-minimizing
shapes. PNAS
Abstract
Launch
of the Encyclopedia of Life was
one of Nature magazine’s 10 “biggest
science stories of the year.” Nature
Gonzalo
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 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.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.