By modeling the biological world, we formalize verbal theories, generate testable hypotheses, and develop methods of data analysis. Within OEB, we are focussed primarily on evolutionary and ecological modeling.
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
mdesai@oeb.harvard.edu |
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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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; genetic conflicts within individual organisms, as exemplified by genomic imprinting |
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Daniel L. Hartl
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Interface between evolution, molecular biology and genomics
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L. Mahadevan
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Natural interface between physical and biological systems that arises in the context of collective biophysical and biomechanical behavior over a range of scales, from O(nm) to a O(cm)
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Paul R. Moorcroft
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Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement
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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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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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