David Haig

George Putnam Professor of Biology and Harvard College Professor

Phone: 617-496-5125
E-mail:
Office: 42B Botanical Museum, MCZ, 26 Oxford St

Website: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/Home.html

Because I am theorist, my research is wide and varied. I work on everything from maternal-fetal conflict in human pregnancy to the evolution of plant life cycles. I have a particular interest in genetic conflicts within individual organisms, as exemplified by genomic imprinting.

Recent Publications

Haig, D. (2007) Weismann rules! OK? Epigenetics and the Lamarckian temptation. Biology and Philosophy 22: 415-428.

Yano, K., Gale, D., Massberg, S., Cheruvu, P. K., Monahan-Earley, R., Morgan, E. S., Haig, D., von Andrian, U. H., Dvorak, A. M. and Aird, W. C. (2007) Phenotypic heterogeneity is an evolutionarily conserved feature of the endothelium. Blood 109: 613-615.

Haig, D. (2006) Self-imposed silence: parental antagonism and the evolution of X-chromosome inactivation. Evolution 60: 440-447.

Haig, D. (2006) Intragenomic politics. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 113: 68-74.

Haig, D. & Wilczek, A. (2006) Sexual conflict and the alternation of haploid and diploid generations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London  B 361: 335-343.

Haig, D. (2005) The complex history of distal human chromosome 1q. Genomics 86: 767-770.

Brandvain, Y. & Haig, D. (2005) Divergent mating systems and parental conflict as a barrier to hybridization in flowering plants. American Naturalist 166: 330-338.

Lukhtanov, V. A., Kandul, N. P., Plotkin, J. B., Dantchenko, A. V., Haig, D. & Pierce, N. E. (2005) Reinforcement of pre-zygotic isolation and karyotype evolution in Agrodiaetus butterflies. Nature 436: 385-389.

Books and Book Chapters:

Haig, D. (2006) The gene meme. Pages 50-65, in Richard Dawkins. How a scientist changed the way we think. A. Grafen & M. Ridley (eds.) Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Haig, D. (2006) Intrapersonal conflict. Pages 8-22, in Conflict. M. K. Jones & A. C. Fabian (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Haig, D. (2002) Genomic imprinting and kinship. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Courses Taught

OEB 114. Vertebrate Viviparity

OEB 168r. Life Cycles of Plants

OEB 305. The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things