Our research focuses on the organismic interfaces between developmental, phylogenetic and evolutionary biology. Steady advances in the study of the phylogenetic relationships of organisms have provided the raw materials for critical studies of character evolution in plants, animals, fungi, and all other forms of life. Armed with hypotheses of relationships among organisms, we explore how patterns of morphology, anatomy, and reproduction have evolved through the modification of developmental processes. With each study, our goal is to reconstruct the origin and subsequent diversification of a clade of plants, and to generate explicit hypotheses of the developmental innovations central to evolutionary history of the lineage under study.
The Friedman Lab
Evolutionary History and Plant Development
Department of Organismic
and Evolutionary Biology
Arnold Arboretum
Harvard University
1300 Centre Street
Boston, MA 02131
Principal Investigator
Dr. William (Ned) Friedman
Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Phone: 617.384.7744
Fax: 617.384.6596
Email: ned@oeb.harvard.edu
Administrator
Alison Ring
Special Assistant
Weld Hill Research Building
Office: 617.384.5241
Fax: 617.384.6596
Email: aring@fas.harvard.edu