Papers by Jonathan Losos, Farish Jenkins and Arkhat Abzhanov are cited among the past decade's 'gems' of evolutionary evidence as Nature marks Darwin's 200th birthday.
Graduate 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. The study was co-authored with Professors, James Hanken and Farish A. Jenkins. ...
Gonzalo Giribet's paper on metazoan phylogenomics, published in the journal Nature, was included in Discover magazine’s "top 100 Science Stories of 2008."
Prashant Sharma, a graduate student in the Giribet Lab, received the Don Rosen award of the Willi Hennig Society for his talk at the Hennig XXVII International Meeting in Tucuman, Argentina.
Kirsten Bomblies is among Harvard's three MacArthur Foundation 2008 "genius" grant recipients in the sciences. She will begin her OEB appointment in July, 2009.
Missy Holbrook will moderate a discussion with Edward O. Wilson and Eric Chivianentitled "Sustaining Life: A Conversation" at Boston's Museum of Science on October 3, 2008.