2014

Congratulations to graduating senior Georgia Shelton ( Farrell Lab) awarded the Hoopes Prize for her senior thesis, "The Biodiversity of the Bees at the Arnold Arboretum"!

Postdoctoral Fellow, Heidi Fisher ( Hoekstra Lab) collaborated with L. Mahadevan to create a mathematical model that simulated swimming sperm showing that while groups of sperm don't swim faster, they do swim straighter, which actually increases their...

Congratulations to Martha Munoz (Losos Lab), winner of the Raymond B. Huey Award for the Best Student Presentation in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Austin.

Pardis Sabeti and researcher, Stephen Gire receive honorable mention as 2014 Bostonians of the year for their work on Ebola. Full story.

Pardis Sabeti among the group of Ebola fighters Time Magazine named 'Person of the Year.' Full story.

A new study co-authored by Sarah Kocher (postdoc in Naomi Pierce's lab) and Prof. Martin Nowak, finds that the slower 'eusocial' system in nature offers high risks and high rewards. Full story.

Pardis Sabeti is a virus detective, sifting through genes in search of answers on Ebola. Full story.

Peter Girguis, explores marine biology with Cambridge Rindge Latin School students. Full story.

Though it's often portrayed as a process that takes place over thousands of years, Yoel Stuart, a former graduate student in OEB, and Jonathan Losos discover rapid real-time evolution in the green anole lizard. Full story.

Pardis Sabeti and researcher, Stephen Gire's work to sequence Ebola's genome and track its mutations featured in The New Yorker.