2009

Research projects by Arkhat Abzhanov and James Hanken featured in the PBS NOVA program, What Darwin Never Knew .

Prof. Edward O. Wilson received an award from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in October for his work and contributions protecting the world’s biodiversity, including his efforts to develop the Encyclopedia of Life. The award honors a commitment...

The infamous Jackalopus karelliemi, a.k.a. ”Liem’s Jackalope,” made an unexpected appearance at the opening of the newly renovated Great Mammal Hall in the Harvard Museum of Natural History on October 16, 2009. The perpetrator remains unidentified and at...

Cassandra Extavour's video " Why Cells Cooperate" on the evolution and development of multicellular organisms and germ cells is featured on NPR's Science Friday .

Postdoc, Yael Aminetzach's ( Hoekstra lab), newest study in Current Biology shows that venomous shrews and lizards evolved toxic proteins in the same way. Full Story.

L. Mahadevan awarded Ma cArthur Foundation 'genius' grant for his work on the science behind familiar objects and everyday events. Full Story.

Farish A. Jenkins, Jr . awarded the prestigious Romer-Simpson Medal at the September meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Bristol, UK. The society's highest award honors sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence in the discipline of...

Pardis Sabeti awarded an NIH Director's 2009 New Innovator Award for research in host and pathogen evolution in Lassa fever. The award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators. NIH...

Gonzalo Giribet is part of an international research team using scalable phylogenomic methods to place the Acoelomorph flatworms as a sister clade to other bilaterally symmetric animals. The results appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B .

Kirsten Bomblies examines plant immune responses for clues to divergence. Full Story.