2017

Postdoc, Barnabas Daru (Davis Lab), is lead author of a study published in New Phytologist that points to sampling biases in a number of herbarium collections around the world. Daru suggests that researchers focused on climate change should take these...

Part of IB undergraduate, Annie Opel's (Cavanaugh Lab) thesis research was spent diving in and around the coral reefs off St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for hours a day. Opel's research, published in the December issue of Marine Biology with Opel as...

Missy Holbrook, Jessica Savage (former Holbrook Lab postdoc), Juan Losada (Arnold Arboretum Fellow), and Jessica Gersony (PhD student) collaborated with Michael Knoblauch, Washington State University, and Kaare Jensen (former Holbrook lab postdoc)...

A new species of antbird, discovered in 2016 in Northern Peru, has been named for E.O. Wilson in recognition of his lifetime contribution to scientific discovery and conservation. The new antbird species, Myrmoderus eowilsoni, is described in the...

The popular YouTube Channel, Science IRL, hosted by OEB graduate student, Molly Edwards (Kramer Lab) heads to the Arnold Arboretum to speak with Arboretum Director, Ned Friedman and OEB graduate student, Kristel Schoonderwoerd (Friedman Lab) to find out...

Congratulations to Gonzalo Giribet who will receive an honorary doctorate from University of Copenhagen on November 17, 2017 at the Annual Commemoration. On Monday following the ceremony, Prof. Giribet will give an honorary lecture titled, "CHALLENGES AND...

Nature uses a set of simple growth rules to make complex shapes in nature and human faces. Building on previous research to explain naturally morphing structures, L. Mahadevan sought to unlock those rules and reverse engineer nature's ability to grow an...

Congratulations to Andrew Knoll, awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa from the Richard Gilder Graduate School at The American Museum of Natural History in New York!

Prof. L. Mahadevan and Prof. Olivier Pourquié, Harvard Medical School, used mouse cells to create a segmentation clock for the first time in a petri dish. A segmentation clock creates repetive arrangement in developing embryos and with each tick of the...

NASA tasked Peter Girguis and colleagues at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to develop the ultimate deep-ocean observatory, ABISS (Autonomous Biogeochemical Instrument for In Situ Studies). ABISS launched in August 2017 and will be controlled...