Hopkins Lab
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Arnold Arboretum
1300 Centre Street
Boston, MA 02131
Principal Investigator
Prof. Robin Hopkins
Weld Hill Research Building
Room 214
Office: (617) 384-5501
Harvard University Herbaria
Room 224
Office: (617) 496-9613
Email: rhopkins@fas.harvard.edu
Administrator
Meri Petollari
Neotropical spiral gingers
André, Thiago, Shayla Salzman, Tânia Wendt, Chelsea Specht. 2016. Speciation dynamics and biogeography of Neotropical spiral gingers (Costaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103(2016) 55-63. [PDF]
Another baby in the lab!
Heather’s baby, Larrea, is born on New Year’s Eve!
Shayla passed her Qualifying Exam!
Shayla did a great job defending her thesis proposal on cycads and their weevil pollinators. This will be an awesome dissertation.
Ben Goulet will join the lab
We are so thrilled that Ben will be joining the lab this fall as a graduate student in OEB.
Field season begins in Texas
Stuart drove lots of little Phlox to Texas! It was quite an operation but the plants were happy for their long road trip.
Stuart had a bit of an adventure along the way – he saw a BEAR!
Congratulations Chris Chen on being accepted into PRISE
Chris Chen has been awarded a PRISE fellowship to work in the lab this summer. He will be studying the strength of reproductive isolating barriers in the Texas Phlox.
Stuart Graham visits the lab
Stuart Graham is getting his masters through the Erasmus Mundus Master Program in Evolutionary Biology. He is visiting our lab for six months to conduct research on pollinator behavior. He’ll be leading the field expedition to Texas this year.
Hopkins Lab awarded a Milton Fund Grant
The Hopkins Lab was awarded a Milton Fund grant. This award will support our work investigating how and why butterflies are behaving the way they do while foraging on Phlox. We will be investigating if pollinators learn and how this learning influences pollen movement and speciation in Phlox.
Graduate student Shayla Salzman joins the lab
Shayla will be studying interactions between Cycads and their pollinators.
Sevan Suni joins the lab
Sevan Suni joins the lab. Sevan joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow and will be investigating the genetics of reinforcement and the role of hybridization in adaptive introgression.