The evolution of flightless birds
The Harvard Gazette chronicles Edwards Lab research explores the genetics behind the development of flightless birds.
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Former Edwards lab member and OEB colleague Hopi Hoekstra is elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Read all about it here: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/may-3-2016-NAS-Electi…
Scott Receives 2015 Elliot Coues Award
Congratulations Scott on receiving the 2015 Elliot Coues Award from the American Ornithologists' Union!
Shane Campbell-Staton gives talk at the Harvard Horizons Symposium
Shane Campbell-Staton discusses natural selection during Harvard Horizons Symposium. Full story.
Scott is inducted to the National Academy of Sciences
Scott has been inducted to the into the National Academy of Sciences. Full story. Congrats Scott!
Mongolia field expedition successful
Several lab members, including Niclas Backström and Allison Shultz, return from a successful 3-week collecting expedition to Mongolia. The expedition was a collaboration between Professor Sundev Gombobaatar of the National University of Mongolia, his...
Scott gives his Presidential lecture at the Society’s annual meeting
As President of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Scott gives his Presidential lecture at the Society’s annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
Former postdoc Frank Rheindt accepts faculty position
Former postdoc Frank Rheindt accepts a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore. Frank looks forward to continued research in avian phylogeography and phylogenetics. Congratulations, Frank!
Welcome Mary O’Connell
The Edwards lab is joined by sabbatical visitor and computational biologist Mary O’Connell. Mary hails from Dublin City University, Ireland, and will be supported by a Fullbright Fellowship.
Welcome Cassie Stoddard and Christie Riehl
The Edwards lab is joined by two Harvard Junior Fellows with interests in ornithology. Cassie Stoddard will conduct interdisciplineary studies on the evolution of eggs and eggshells, combining chemistry, mathematical models, and genomics. Christie Riehl...
Scott and PhD student publish new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution
Harvard PhD student Zhang Qu (Human Evolutionary Biology) and Scott test the hypothesis that flight and intron size in amniotes are interrelated in a new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution. Read the paper and the associated news story published in GBE.
Christie Riehl receives a Putnam Expedition Grant
Christie Riehl receives a Putnam Expedition Grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology to go to Panama to study how female anis use conspecific brood parasitism to increase their reproductive success. September 2012