2010

OEB graduate student, Prashant Sharma , ( Giribet Lab) , received the 2nd place award for best student oral presentation at the July 2010 meeting of the International Society for Arachnology.

The rare Amorphophallus titanum plant bloomed and closed in a little more than 24 hours in the OEB greenhouse. This is the first time the elusive titan arum has bloomed since coming to Harvard in 2002. Harvard Magazine. The Gazette.

David Haig co-authored a study, published in the journal Science , showing that maternal genes dominate in developing mice brains, while paternal ones lead in adulthood. Full Story .

OEB graduate student, Prashant Sharma , ( Giribet Lab) , received the Willi Hennig Award for the best oral presentation by a student at the May 2010 meeting of the Willi Hennig Society . The international organization promotes the field of phylogenetic...

Edward O. Wilson delivered the 2010 John M. Prather Lectures in Biology, co-sponsored by OEB and MCB.

OEB graduate student Bhart-Anjan Bhullar ( Abzhanov Lab) received the 2010 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. Anjan is the first teaching fellow from the biological sciences to receive this prestigious...

Andrew Biewener was a guest editor of a special feature, "Control and dynamics of animal movement" in the June 2010 issue of Biology Letters. Andy Biewener and co-editor Tom Daniel discussed the feature in an interview with Biology Letters' Wendy Barnaby.

A video about the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Initiative, featured in the HMNH’s exhibit EVOLUTION MATTERS. The film includes interviews with E.O. Wilson , Jim Hanken , Gonzalo Giribet , and Brian Farrell .

Alexandra Mushegian 's senior thesis examined bacterial communities living within lichens. She worked under the direction of Anne Pringle. Full Story

OEB undergrad Jeremy Hsu blogged about his spring break field trip to Costa Rica with OEB 167: Herpetology, taught by Jim Hanken and Jonathan Losos .