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Paige presents senior thesis
Congratulations Seniors! Students presented their senior theses at a poster session at Northwest Labs today. Farrell Lab senior, Paige Kouba, presented her thesis, " Aedes dance party: Interbreeding and hybridization between Aedes triseriatus and Aedes...
EVENT: Cultures in Motion: Humans, Their Seeds and Other Stuff
Tuesday, Feb. 23: Join Professors David Carrasco and Brian D. Farrell as they discuss how the migration of species in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean contributes to the evolution of ecological complexes, such as seeds, human families, and cultural practices...
Pollination of Creteaceous plants
Ricardo is part of an international team which discovered fly specimens in El Soplao cave (Cantabria, Spain). Study of these specimens found pollination in an extinct group of flies preserved in Spanish amber for more than a hundred million years. http:/...
NSF Awards Third Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
We are proud to announce that the Farrell Lab has been awarded NSF support as part of a collaborative TCN grant. Along with the University of Colorado Boulder, American Musem of Natural History, Yale Peabody Museum, Virgina Museum of Natural History...
Harvard-Brazil OEB Symposium, October 2015
Professor Farrell, with Professors Naomi Pierce and Scott Edwards of OEB and Prof. Scot Martin of SEAS, recently traveled to Brazil for the Harvard-Brazil OEB Syposium. Co-organized by DRCLAS and the Lemann Foundation, they explored opportunities to...
Graduate student Sang Il Kim joins the lab
We are pleased to welcome Sang Il Kim to the lab this semester as a graduate student! He is re-joining us after completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard. To learn more about his research interests, please visit his page.
EVENT: Biology of Culture - Bridging Art and Science
Join Prof. Farrell on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History! "Can the reconciliation of the arts and sciences inform our understanding of nature and our place in it? Drawing on neurobiological, paleontological, and genetics research...
Graduate student Alyssa Hernandez joins the lab
We are pleased to welcome Alyssa Hernandez to the lab this semester! Alyssa is joining us after gaining experience in applied entomology and ecology. To learn more about her research interests, please visit her page.
The Harvard Crimson highlights Prof. Farrell in this week's edition
"As a biology professor, curator of Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the newly appointed director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Brian D. Farrell has integrated his diverse passions into his multifaceted...
Farrell Lab welcomes post-doc Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente
We are excited to welcome Ricardo to the lab! He will be with us for the duration of the TCN Fossil grant, working to digitize, database, and analyze Harvard's fossil insect collection. Ricardo comes to us after completing his doctoral studies at the...
2014 Milton Fund Awards announced
We are pleased to announce that the Farrell Lab has been awarded a William F. Milton Fund award to research the evolution of beetle-plant interactions, using next generation sequencing. "The Milton Fund supports studies of a medical, geographical...