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Saturday, November 16, 2024, Thalles will present a new Science Spotlight at the Harvard Museum of Natural History: "How to Help a Scientist Find a New Species." Join Thalles and other inquisitive minds Saturday at 2:00pm! For more information about the...

For a look inside the lab's recent research, please enjoy Brian's episode of the DRCLAS podcast, " Faculty Voices." Episode 67: Brian Farrell on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and his Latest Research https://faculty-voices.simplecast.com/episodes...

Join Brian Friday, as he presents at Berklee Global Jazz Institutes's 9th Annual Symposium of Interconnected Arts and Music Performance! On Friday, November 8th, Brian will present "Why We Animals Sing" at 10am at: Berklee College of Music David Friend...

Why, in so many lineages of tiny consumers, whether parasites, pathogens or herbivorous beetles, do ecological associations with particular lineages of hosts often remain stable for tens or even hundreds of millions of years? Brian addressed this topic in...

The Farrell Lab warmly welcomes Valentine Bouju to the lab! Valentine joins us as an MCZ Biodiversity Fellow. She is a paleoentomologist fascinated by amber and the arthropods and plants enclosed within it. Valentine specializes in the study of fossilized...

This month, Paulino and Connor ventured into the field with Anthony Kiszewski of Bentley University, MCZ Associate, to conduct initial field work seeking Wyeomyia smithii. This field work is part of ongoing research by the team, which is conducting...

In 2015, when Alvin Powell of the Harvard Gazette interviewed Brian about the installation of peregrine falcon nests on Memorial Hall, little did anyone realize that nine years later, Brian would be rescuing chicks who got a bit too close to the edge...

Congratulations to Thalles, a 2024 recipient of the BioOne Ambassador Award! Thalles received this award for "Partnerships for the Goals: Citizens and Scientists Find and Describe a New Species." Read more at BioOne here

"There are no snakes in Alaska, so what’s that snakelike shape crossing the road?" Listen to Thalles on the New Species podcast episode "A new snakeworm gnat with Thalles Pereira." The Spotify link for the episode is here (opens in new window) The New...

Saturday, March 16, 2024, Thalles will present a new Science Spotlight at the Harvard Museum of Natural History: "How to Help a Scientist Find a New Species." Join Thalles and other inquisitive minds Saturday at 3:00! For more information about the event...