2012

Kirsten Bomblies and Cassandra Extavour nominated for the 2012 Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) Mentor of the Year Award. The HGWISE Mentoring Program pairs female graduate students with female faculty in order to promote strong...

Martin Nowak among the authors of a paper proposing a mathematical framework for the evolution of in-group favoritism from a continuum of strategies. Article in Nature.com's Scientific Reports.

Research in the Abzhanov Lab finds that a change in developmental timing was crucial in the evolutionary shift from dinosaurs to birds. Graduate student Bhart-Anjan Bhullar was the first author on a paper that has been receiving a lot of attention in the...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pleuni Pennigs ( Wakeley lab) , has published an article in PLoS Computational Biology that uses new computational modeling and suggests that pre-existing HIV drug resistance mutations may contribute more to drug failure than...

Yun Zhang and colleagues from the Center for Brain Science studied C. Elegans (tiny, transparent worms) and demonstrated they have a more complex neural system than was previously thought. Their paper was published in the Journal Nature suggesting a...

James Mallet and colleagues, dubbed the Heliconius Genome Consortium, published the Heliconius melpomene genome and insights into the evolution of mimicry in the journal Nature . Full Story.

Jonathan Losos elected to membership by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the American Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research.

The World Economic Forum has announced that Pardis Sabeti is among its Young Global Leaders (YGLs) for 2012. The honor, bestowed each year by the Forum, recognizes outstanding young leaders from around the world for their professional accomplishments...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Rowan Barrett , ( Hoekstra Lab) is the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists.

Gonzalo Giribet curates HMNH's new exhibit " Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm."