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Harvard China Fund award to support research on 3D early Cambrian fossils

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We are delighted to share the news that the Harvard China Fund will support our research on the exceptionally preserved three-dimensional morphology of fossilized animals from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota in South China in collaboration with our...

Karma Nanglu to join UC Riverside faculty in Fall 2025

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We are delighted to share the news that Dr. Karma Nanglu will start his own research group in the West Coast at the prestigious University of California Riverside in Fall 2025! Karma's work on the biodiversity, paleobiology and paleoecology of Cambrian...

Dean's Competitive Fund Spring 2022 awarded to study exceptional fossils in a nearshore setting

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Today we received the exciting news that the Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship will support our ongoing project entitled " Revealing the Nearshore Cradle of Animal Evolution: A New Exceptionally Preserved Soft-Bodied Fossil Biota From the...

Human Frontier Science Program Early Career Grant to study the water to land transition in euarthropods

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This week we received the fantastic news that the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) will support an international effort to understand the water to land transition in euarthropods, with emphasis on the evolution of respiratory systems! This highly...

Prof. Ortega-Hernández Joining OEB!

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Javier Ortega-Hernández will join the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, January 2019!

The Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleobiology arrives at OEB

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After much anticipation, we are super excited to launch the Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleobiology at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard!

RJ Knecht awarded NSF graduate research fellowship

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Somewhat belated congratulations to Richard Knecht for securing a prestigious NSF graduate research fellowship. Well done RJ! Some additional details below: https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/05/research-future

Sarah Losso and Richard Knecht join the lab. Welcome!

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We are excited to welcome the new graduate students Sarah Losso (previously University of Iowa) and Richard Knecht (previously Tufts University) to the Lab for Invertebrate Paleobiology. We wish you all the best during your first semester in Harvard and...

Javier becomes member of the "Sistema Nacional de Investigadores"

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Javier has been awarded the title of Investigador Nacional Nivel I (National Researcher Level I), and membership to the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers), a governmental agency that promotes and evaluates professional...

Javier is interviewed for Prof Talks

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Javier was recently interviewed by Adam Vassallo for an ambitious project entitled Prof Talks, that aims to feature 100 professors in 100 consecutive days. The conversation is available at the Prof Talks website, which also includes other colleagues from...

Jo Wolfe cracks the decapod tree of life

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Jo Wolfe has published an impressive study six years in the making that clarifies the phylogenetic relationships of decapod crustaceans, which include familiar (and delicious) representatives such as lobsters, shrimps and crabs. The results are available...