Seminars

This is the official departmental seminar that usually meets in the Bio Labs Main Lecture Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 4:00pm. A reception follows and there is usually an opportunity for students to have lunch with the speaker. The Communications & Events Coordinator will send out a sign up link for those interested in attending. There is also an opportunity for dinner with the speaker, but you must contact the hosting lab to arrange/confirm.

Notices go up on all the bulletin boards and the schedule for the entire year is posted on the OEB Website. 

These seminars meet in the lecture room on the 4th floor of the MCZ Labs, near the Pierce and Farrell labs, usually on Friday mornings around 10am. Speakers usually present talks in fields such as ecology, behavior, co-evolution, phylogeny, and development. There is an e-mail mailing list which distributes the schedule and seminar reminders.

Weekly seminars held in the main lecture hall of the Bio Labs on Thursdays at noon. Look for information posted in the Bio Labs or on the MCB calendar website (https://www.mcb.harvard.edu/mcb/events/mcb-calendar/).

This seminar series in the Herbaria meets on Tuesdays or Thursdays during lunch time (bring your lunch), and the speakers are often people visiting the department. All botanical topics are covered. Notices are posted in advance. For more detailed information go to: https://huh.harvard.edu/events

The OEB Graduate Seminar Series is organized by the graduate students. It provides a non-threatening environment (i.e., no faculty) in which grad students give short talks about their thesis research, or any other related topic of interest, followed by questions and discussion.

The EHAP seminar series is a joint product of OEB, Earth and Planetary Science, and Anthropology. The series brings in speakers from all over the country and the world. Seminars are held in Geology 102, Haller Hall on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. Posters appear on bulletin boards announcing the talks. There are also informal opportunities to interact with the speakers (usually dinner after the lecture).

The Broad Institute represents a research collaboration between the academic and medical communities at both Harvard and MIT. Groups within the institute focus on Genome Biology, Medical and Population Genetics, Chemical Biology, Infectious Disease, among other topics.  https://www.broadinstitute.org/public-events/public-events-calendar

Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) pulls graduate students from 10+ different departments and several different schools. Seminars occur biweekly on Thursdays at 6:15 in William James Hall. Food and beers are served and the talks are purposely not too specific or technical, making for a friendly learning atmosphere. (http://mbb.harvard.edu/)

Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [EPS] and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences [SEAS]) holds weekly seminars and lectures.  Please check their events schedule for more information.

Climate Seminars

ClimaTea Lecture/Journal Club

The New England Botanical Club meetings are typically held monthly on the first Friday of the month during the academic year at Harvard University, next door to the Museum of Natural History.  Please check the Program Calendar for specifics.

The Cambridge Entomological Club has regular meetings on the second Tuesday of each month, with speakers discussing various entomological topics. Notices are posted in advance. For more information visit http://entclub.org/.

The New England Herpetological Society meets monthly at Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, MA. Meetings consist of a talk or program on reptile or amphibians, preceded and followed by fondling of specimens brought in by members. More info can be found at http://www.neherp.com.

As a service to the scientific community, Whitehead Institute hosts Biology Week, a listing of biology seminars and symposia in the Boston/Cambridge area. Biology Week is a web-based publication that allows readers to access a simple URL to view up-to-date calendar listings.