OEB News

E.O. WilsonDavis and Losos labs identify link between climate change and invasive species in Thoreau's woods. Read stories in Boston Globe, WBUR (public radio), Harvard Gazette, Harvard Magazine
E.O. WilsonProf. Edward O. Wilson's story, Trailhead, taken from his upcoming novel, Anthill, is published in The New Yorker, 01/25/2010. Read story, read interview.
spermPostdoc Heidi Fisher and Hopi Hoekstra report that sperm can recognize and preferentially cooperate with its closest relatives. Nature, 01/20/2010, NPR story, 01/21/2010
Pardis SabetiPardis Sabeti's lab helped develop a statistical method called a "Composite of Multiple Signals" to target areas of beneficial variation in the human genome. Science, 1/7/2010
cranial devlopmentResearch projects by Arkhat Abzhanov and James Hanken were featured in the PBS NOVA program, What Darwin Never Knew. View program that aired 12/29/2009 and read more about EvoDevo on NOVA's website.

OEB Faculty Spotlight

OEB Strategic Partners

The Broad Institute is a research collaboration of MIT and Harvard, created to bring the power of genomics to medicine. Dan Hartl, Anne Pringle, Maryellen Ruvolo, Pardis Sabeti and John Wakeley are associate members of the institute.

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OEB Research in Focus:


Current Research Areas


Groundbreaking research in the life sciences is now more interdisciplinary than ever and it is often the case that OEB faculty work in more than one of these areas.

Undergraduate Study

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The OEB concentration provides opportunities for students to study biological diversity in the field, whether close to home or abroad.

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Graduate Program


OEB Graduate students participate in collaborative forefront research in their chosen area of study.

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