Malacology

One of the newest Curators in the MCZ, Professor Mandë Holford, is featured in the Harvard Gazette. Research in the Holford Lab focuses on venomous sea snails and cephalopods, their toxins, and how those compounds might be turned into medicines.

In the inky depths of the Central Pacific Ocean, nearly 2,400 meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea limpet clinging to a sunken log. During a 2023 expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus, scientists using the remotely...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is restricted to a handful of species in the Southern Indo...

Congratulations to Mandë Holford, incoming MCZ Curator in Malacology and Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor, who was elected a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! Election as a Fellow honors...

From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Mandë Holford, a leader in venom research currently at City University of New York's Hunter College, will join OEB in July 2025 as Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator in...

Congratulations to MCZ Director and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Malacology, Gonzalo Giribet, recently elected Académico Extranjero (Foreign Member) to the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (the Spanish Royal Academy...

The MCZ's papier-mâché octopus from the 1880's has been restored and is now on display in Harvard's Northwest Building. The project is featured in the Harvard Gazette, An exhibit with legs: Restored papier-mâché octopus is grabbing attention in its new...

Multiple MCZ specimens highlight the Ernst Mayr Library exhibit "Hearing" currently on display in the lobby of the Northwest Building at Harvard.

The MCZ participates in an exhibit on brains and their development currently on display in Northwest Building at Harvard through March 2015. (February 2014)

Gonzalo Giribet curates HMNH's new exhibit "Mollusks: Shelled Masters of the Marine Realm." Read about it in the Harvard Gazette.