2009

Graduate student, Jesse Weber ( Hopi Hoekstra Lab) , was awarded the Hamilton Prize for the best student paper at the Evolution 2009 Meeting.

Christopher Marx received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program award from the National Science Foundation .

Postdoctoral fellow, Yael Salzman's ( Hopi Hoekstra lab) work on the molecular evolution of toxic proteins in shrews featured in The Washington Post.

Stacey Combes's latest research shows bees in flight trade energy for safety to stay stable in the wind. PNAS abstract. Full Story.

PhD student, Matt Hegreness's (Dan Hartl Lab) paper in Nature Reviews Microbiology systematically maps synergistic and antagonistic interactions between drugs and the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

Graduate student Dino Martins (Naomi Pierce Lab) received the 2009 Whitley Award for his work related to the conservation of insects and sustainable agriculture in Kenya. Video of Dino's project.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Chris Organ 's ( Scott Edwards Lab) phylogenetic analysis of proteins in 80-million-year-old duck-billed hadrosaur fossil bolsters earlier T. rex findings about the bird-dinosaur clade. Science.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Scott Edwards to the 2009 class of Fellows. Full Story.

James McCarthy awarded the 2009 Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation at the annual Albert Einstein Science Conference. Full Story.

Pardis Sabeti gave a talk titled "Evolution in the Post-Genomic Age" at the HMNH as part of Harvard's celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday.