OEB Seminars

Shayla L. Monroe Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology Harvard University Comparative Human Ecologies: The View from Zooarchaeology Abstract: Zooarchaeology is a specific branch of environmental archaeology dealing with human...

David Obura Director, CORDIO, East Africa Chair, IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Anthropocene - What Curves Need to be Bent? Co-Hosted with The Museum of Comparative...

Sally Seraphin Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Trinity College Host: Mandë Holford

David Reich Professor of Genetics and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years...

Michael Long Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery NYU Grossman School of Medicine How Parrots Speak Abstract: Careful study of the...

Karla Kaun Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience Brown University Neuromolecular mechanisms underlying approach-avoidance conflict in alcohol self-administration Abstract: The escalation of alcohol self-administration is a critical factor in the...

Samuel H. Church Assistant Professor New York University Sailing jellies and Hawaiian flies: model-clade approaches to evolutionary genomics Abstract: Evolution endlessly generates biodiversity. Model clades, lineages selected for intensive research into...

Leslie B. Vosshall Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, The Rockfeller University Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mosquitoes: A Flexible and Dangerous Predator of Humans Abstract: Female mosquitoes require a blood...

Sarah S. Richardson Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Harvard University Sex Contextualism in Practice Abstract: A contextualist approach to sex-related biology offers an alternative to...

Evan Fricke Ecologist and Research Scientist Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT From ecological networks to ecosystem functioning: mapping global changes in animal functional roles Abstract: Changes to animal biodiversity often impact...