Through field, laboratory, and model-based studies along with the outstanding collections, facilities and other resources of Harvard’s natural history institutions—the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, the Arnold Arboretum, and the Harvard Forest—we investigate the origins and maintenance of biological diversity.
Andrew A. Biewener
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Comparative biomechanics of mammalian and avian locomotion; neuromuscular control of movement during walking and running, as well as during flight |
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Colleen Cavanaugh
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Symbioses of bacteria in marine invertebrates from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, and coastal reducing sediments |
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Charles C. Davis
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Plant diversity and evolution involving the integration of systematics, paleobiology, evolution, ecology, and molecular biology |
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Benjamin L. de Bivort
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Discovering why individuals behave uniquely by linking automated quantification of behavior to variation at the molecular, cellular and neural circuit levels |
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Michael M. Desai
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How genetic variation is created and maintained; natural selection in asexual populations such as microbes and viruses |
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Scott V. Edwards
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Evolutionary biology of birds and relatives, combining field, museum and genomics approaches to understand the basis of avian diversity, evolution and behavior |
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Cassandra G. Extavour
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Evolution and development of reproductive systems, specifically the mechanisms of initial specification of primordial germ cells |
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Brian D. Farrell
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Rates, directions and consequences of evolutionary diversification, as well as the marks of evolutionary history on community structure; interactions between various tiny consumers and their hosts, such as beetles and plants or mosquitoes, pathogens and vertebrates |
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William (Ned) Friedman
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Organismic interfaces between developmental, phylogenetic and evolutionary biology |
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Gonzalo Giribet
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Evolution and biogeography of invertebrate animals, mainly arthropods and mollusks |
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David A. Haig
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Maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles. Particular interest in genetic conflicts within individual organisms, as exemplified by genomic imprinting |
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James Hanken
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Evolution of morphology, developmental biology, and systematics |
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Daniel L. Hartl
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Interface between evolution, molecular biology and genomics |
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Hopi E. Hoekstra
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Identifying and characterizing the molecular changes responsible for traits that affect fitness of organisms in the wild; using wild mice to study the genetic basis of morphological and behavior adaptation
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Robin Hopkins
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Speciation in plants, predominantly focused on reinforcement, the process in which reduced hybrid fitness generates selection for the evolution of reproductive isolation between emerging species |
Andrew H. Knoll
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Evolution of life, evolution of Earth surface environments, and the relationships between the two, Archean and Proterozoic paleontology and biogeochemistry |
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Elena Kramer
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Molecular, morphological, and phylogenetic approaches are used to study how flowers have changed over the course of evolutionary time. A major focus is the development of Aquilegia (columbine) as a new system for studying evolutionary and ecological questions |
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George V. Lauder
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Biorobotics and evolution of fishes |
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James Mallet
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Evolution, genomics, hybridization, and speciation - mainly in butterflies |
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Martin A. Nowak
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Initiated the field of virus dynamics which led to quantitative understanding of HIV infection; evolution of cooperation |
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Javier Ortega-Hernández
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Evolution, phylogeny and developmental paleobiology of Paleozoic invertebrates, particularly (eu)arthropods and their close relatives. Interested on the origin of major animal groups during the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, as informed by exceptionally preserved fossils.
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Donald H. Pfister
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Biology, life histories and phylogeny of Ascomycota, particularly members of the Pezizomycetes, Leotiomycetes and Laboulbeniomycetes. Interest in phylogenetic relationships within the groups, their host relationships and geographical distribution |
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Naomi E. Pierce
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Behavioral ecology and evolution, focusing on species interactions such as insect/host plant associations and symbioses between insects and other organisms; life history evolution and systematics of Lepidoptera |
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Stephanie E. Pierce
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Assessing the link between form and function of the vertebrate skeletal system – especially with respect to muscle/skeletal interactions during feeding and locomotor behaviours in modern and extinct animals |
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Pardis Sabeti
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Genomic signals and mechanisms of evolutionary adaptation in humans and microbial pathogens |
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Mansi Srivastava
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Wound response and stem cell biology during regeneration in an evolutionary framework |
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John Wakeley
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Mathematical and statistical population genetics, especially coalescent theory
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