OEB Announcements
OEB congratulates our 2012 graduates. Best wishes and good luck to Geoffrey Dilly, Kristina Fontanez, Kerry Geiler, Juan Pablo Giraldo Gomez, Collin Johnson, Donald Luke Mahler, Joshua Puzey, Prashant Sharma and Jesse Weber.
OEB News
Jonathan Losos has been elected to membership by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the American Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Article in Harvard Gazette, April 24, 2012.
The World Economic Forum has announced that Pardis Sabeti is among its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2012. The honor, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. Read more.
Rowan Barrett, a postdoc in the Hoekstra Lab is the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists.
Gonzalo Giribet curates HMNH's new exhibit "Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm." Read about it in the Harvard Gazette. 
Answering a decade-long question, James Mallet, Distinguished Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, has published research showing that peppered moths have evolved in response to their environment. Article in Harvard Gazette, Feb. 27, 2012.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.
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