Stacey Combes and L. Mahadevan are part of research team receiving a $10M NSF grant to develop small-scale mobile robotic devices. Press Release.

David Haig's analysis of rare genetic disorders shows maternal, paternal genes' tug-of-war may last well into childhood. Full Story.

Anne Pringle's lab has been selected by the The Joint Genome Institute of the Department of Energy to coordinate the sequencing the genome of Amanita theirsii, a cellulose degrading fungus in an ectomycorrhizal genus. 

H. Bradley Shaffer has been named the 2009-10 Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology.

Jonathan Losos received the 2009 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from The American Society of Naturalists. Press Release.

Graduate student, Jesse Weber (Hopi Hoekstra Lab), was awarded the Hamilton Prize for the best student paper at the Evolution 2009 Meeting.

Christopher Marx received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award from the National Science Foundation.

Postdoctoral fellow, Yael Salzman's (Hopi Hoekstra lab) work on the molecular evolution of toxic proteins in shrews featured in The Washington Post. 

Stacey Combes's latest research shows bees in flight trade energy for safety to stay stable in the wind. PNAS abstract. ...

PhD student, Matt Hegreness's (Dan Hartl Lab) paper in Nature Reviews Microbiology systematically maps synergistic and antagonistic interactions between drugs and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. 
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Graduate student Dino Martins (Naomi Pierce Lab) received the 2009 Whitley Award for his work related to the conservation of insects and sustainable agriculture in Kenya. Video of Dino's project.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Chris Organ's (Scott Edwards Lab) phylogenetic analysis of proteins in 80-million-year-old duck-billed hadrosaur fossil bolsters earlier T. rex findings about the bird-dinosaur clade. Science.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Scott Edwards to the 2009 class of Fellows. Full Story.

James McCarthy awarded the 2009 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation at the annual Albert Einstein Science Conference. Full Story.

Pardis Sabeti gave a talk titled "Evolution in the Post-Genomic Age" at the HMNH as part of Harvard's celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday.