The National Science Foundation announced that L. Mahadevan as Associate Director of a new, multi-institutional science and technology center called the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines based at MIT.

Michael Desai's research sheds light on the dynamics of adaptation in determining which mutations fix in a population, and hence how reproducible evolution will be. He co-authored a paper which was published in Nature on July 21, 2013.

Pardis Sabeti's study of genetic data from hundreds of people from Bangaldesh was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine and showed genetic differences between people who had contracted cholera and those who had been exposed, but did not become ill.

Pam Diggle's intensive two-week course in plant morphology at the Arnold Arboretum offered graduate students greater understanding of the genesis of a plant's entire shape and structure. This annual offering complements botanical investigators' current focus on DNA and genetics as determinants of growth and appearance. ...