People
Brian D. Farrell
Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
My lab and I work on the evolution of interactions between different kinds of tiny consumers, especially beetles and other arthropods, and their much larger hosts, such as plants or large animals. We use phylogenetics to understand the directions, rate...
Gary Alpert
Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Research Associate, Museum of Northern Arizona
Gary is an environmental biologist and MCZ Associate, specializing in ants. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981 and has been conducting field studies on the ants of New England since 1990. He has photographed many ant species in the field and is...
S. Bruce Archibald
Associate, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Curator of Paleontology Collections, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Univ. of British Columbia
Valentine Bouju
MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow
The history of ants: What do Dominican resins unveil about the biodiversity and ecological evolution of Formicidae? I am a paleoentomologist and a paleobotanist, working on fossilized resin and its exquisitely preserved inclusions. I specialize in the...
Kaylin Chong
Graduate Student
My interests are centered around the diversity of invertebrate sensory systems, including the evolutionary and ecological factors driving this diversity. I have previously worked with Dr. Lauren Sumner-Rooney at the Oxford Natural History Museum where I...
Whit Farnum
Curatorial Assistant
Patrick Gorring
Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Research Curator of Coleoptera and Odonata, FL Dept. of Ag. & Consumer Services and FL State Collection of Arthropods
I am an evolutionary biologist and entomologist who uses species-rich herbivorous insects to study how the insect-plant interface has contributed to diversity and will respond to global change. I use genomic tools to investigate factors limiting ranges...
Alyssa Hernandez
Alyssa Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bard College
Graduate student through August 2021; biography below is based on graduate studies: Before pursuing my PhD at Harvard, my background had been largely focused on examining various ecological processes throughout the natural world. As an undergraduate at...
Jordan Johnson
Graduate Student
Prior to pursuing my PhD at Harvard, I undertook an MPhil project at Cambridge University, studying the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides . This spirited little beetle reproduces on carrion—a highly variable ecological resource—and exhibits complex...
Amie Jones
Faculty/Collection Assistant
Amie helps the lab run smoothly. She works as a liaison between the Farrell Lab, Entomology, OEB, and the MCZ. Amie can best be reached via email [ajones at oeb dot harvard dot edu] at present.
Sangil Kim
Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Seoul National University
Graduate student through May 2023 My broad interests include systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Previously I have worked on a taxonomic review of the Korean lucanids with the description of one new species and...
Anthony (Tony) Kiszewski
MCZ Associate
Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology, Bentley University
Fabio Laurindo da Silva
Researcher, Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)
Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2016 Biography below is from fellowship years: I am an evolutionary biologist with a strong interest in the use of molecular phylogenies as a tool to understand biogeographical and evolutionary processes in time and space. Most of...
Piotr Naskrecki
pnaskrec@oeb.harvard.eduMCZ Associate
Director of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory, Gorongosa, Mozambique
Piotr (Peter) Naskrecki is an entomologist, photographer and author, based at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA.). He received his M. Sc. degree in Zoology from the A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland;, and a...
Thalles Platiny Lavinscky Pereira
tlavinsckypereira@fas.harvard.eduAssociate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2025 50 new species for the 49th state - Alaska: using integrative taxonomy to illuminate a dark taxon (Diptera: Phoridae) Thalles’ research focuses on the diversity of flies (Diptera), especially the Phoridae...
Jessica Rykken
MCZ Associate
Entomology Collections Manager, Univ. of Alaska Museum, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Andrea S. Sequeira
MCZ Associate
Gordon and Althea P. Lang ’26 Professor of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College
Scott Shaw
MCZ Associate
Professor of Entomology and Insect Museum Curator, Univ. of Wyoming
Paulino Siqueira Ribeiro
Associate, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2025 Taxonomic and phylogenetic revision of the subgenus Decamyia Dyar, genus Wyeomyia Theobald (Diptera: Culicidae) with a description of new species Paulino is a biologist interested in the study of mosquitoes...
Bruno A. Souza de Medeiros
MCZ Associate
Negaunee Assistant Curator of Pollinating Insects, Field Museum, Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow in OEB, 2018-2019; Graduate Student through 2018 Biography below is based on graduate studies: I am generally interested in understanding the origins of the spectacular insect diversity. For my thesis work, I am studying a little-known...
Recent Lab Publications
2026
Kim S, Farrell BD. Tetraopes milkweed beetle genomes elucidate the adaptive basis of a temperate coevolutionary radiation. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2026;26(3). doi:10.1111/1755-0998.70117
Kim S, Farrell BD. Tetraopes milkweed beetle genomes elucidate the adaptive basis of a temperate coevolutionary radiation. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2026;26(3). doi:10.1111/1755-0998.70117
Lourenço-De-Oliveira R, Pereira GR, Neves MSAS, Santos SDS, Ribeiro PS, Nascimento-Pereira AC, Talaga S, Pavan MG, Sallum MAM, Motta MA. Systematics of Leonidasdeanea, a new subgenus of Wyeomyia (Diptera: Culicidae), with recognition of Wy. luciae as a valid species and synonymy of Wy. surinamensis with Wy. flui. Zootaxa. 2026;5782(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.1.1
Lourenço-De-Oliveira R, Pereira GR, Neves MSAS, Santos SDS, Ribeiro PS, Nascimento-Pereira AC, Talaga S, Pavan MG, Sallum MAM, Motta MA. Systematics of Leonidasdeanea, a new subgenus of Wyeomyia (Diptera: Culicidae), with recognition of Wy. luciae as a valid species and synonymy of Wy. surinamensis with Wy. flui. Zootaxa. 2026;5782(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5782.1.1
Fiorentino G, Bouju V, Sosa D, Navarro nto, Barden P. The ant genus Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Dominican amber. Journal of Paleontology. 2026. doi:10.1017/jpa.2025.10213
Fiorentino G, Bouju V, Sosa D, Navarro nto, Barden P. The ant genus Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Dominican amber. Journal of Paleontology. 2026. doi:10.1017/jpa.2025.10213
2025
Kim S, Farrell BD. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the white-spotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Scientific Data. 2025. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-06258-0
Kim S, Farrell BD. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the white-spotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Scientific Data. 2025. doi:10.1038/s41597-025-06258-0