OEB News

Stacey CombesH. Bradley Shaffer begins term as Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology for the 2009-10 academic year. Fellowship Details
Jonathan Losos Jonathan Losos receives the 2009 E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award from The American Society of Naturalists. Press Release
Jesse WeberJesse Weber, a graduate student in Hopi Hoekstra's lab, was awarded the Hamilton Prize for the best student paper at the Evolution 2009 Meeting.
Christopher MarxChristopher Marx to receive prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award from the National Science Foundation.
Scott EdwardsWork by Yael Salzman, a postdoctoral researcher in Hopi Hoekstra's lab, on the molecular evolution of toxic proteins in shrews was featured in The Washington Post.

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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