Daniel L. Hartl

Higgins Professor of Biology
Not Accepting Graduate Students for 2026-2027
Dan Hartl with gray hair and a beard wearing glasses and a blue shirt
Biological Laboratories16 Divinity AvenueCambridge, MA 02138
617-496-3357
Hartl Group

Faculty Support: Bridget Power

My laboratory focuses on the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics. The main goal is to understand the processes by which organisms evolve, integrated systems change through time, and new species come into being. The research often takes advantage of model organisms (especially fruit flies, nematodes, yeast, and bacteria) or organisms of interest in public health (such as the malaria parasite). We make use of state of the art molecular, statistical, and computational methods.