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Naomi Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954) is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist who currently serves as the Sidney A. and John. H. Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University. She studies plant-herbivore coevolution and is a world authority on butterflies.
Pierce earned her B.S. in Biology at Yale (1972–76) and her Ph.D. in Biology at Harvard (1977–83). Pierce was a Fulbright Scholar in Zoology from Harvard University to Griffith University in 1983 and a MacArthur Fellow in 1988 with Ecology and Evolutionary/Environmental Biology as area of focus.
Pierce is the Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
From 1984–86, Pierce was Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford and a NATO Research Fellow at Oxford's Department of Zoology. In 1986 she moved to Princeton University as Assistant (1986–89) and Associate (1989–90) Professor of Biology. In 1991 Pierce was appointed Hessel Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera at Harvard University.
The Pierce Lab studies topics including the evolution of symbioses, phylogeny, biogeography, systematics, plant-insect-microbe interactions, and biodiversity and life history evolution of insects. Pierce is known for her research on the relationship between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species, in order to understand the process of evolution. Pierce and collaborators Corrie Moreau and Charles D. Bell were the first to establish the origin of ants at 140 to 168 million years ago using molecular sequence data, 40 million years older than previous estimates.
In 2018, the entomopathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps naomipierceae was named in Pierce's honor.
She is married to evolutionary biologist and historian of science Andrew Berry (biologist), and they have twin children.
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Naomi Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce (born 1954) is an American entomologist and evolutionary biologist who currently serves as the Sidney A. and John. H. Hessel Professor of Biology at Harvard University. She studies plant-herbivore coevolution and is a world authority on butterflies.
Pierce earned her B.S. in Biology at Yale (1972–76) and her Ph.D. in Biology at Harvard (1977–83). Pierce was a Fulbright Scholar in Zoology from Harvard University to Griffith University in 1983 and a MacArthur Fellow in 1988 with Ecology and Evolutionary/Environmental Biology as area of focus.
Pierce is the Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
From 1984–86, Pierce was Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford and a NATO Research Fellow at Oxford's Department of Zoology. In 1986 she moved to Princeton University as Assistant (1986–89) and Associate (1989–90) Professor of Biology. In 1991 Pierce was appointed Hessel Professor and Curator of Lepidoptera at Harvard University.
The Pierce Lab studies topics including the evolution of symbioses, phylogeny, biogeography, systematics, plant-insect-microbe interactions, and biodiversity and life history evolution of insects. Pierce is known for her research on the relationship between lycaenid butterfly larvae and ants, as well as the genetic trends within the species, in order to understand the process of evolution. Pierce and collaborators Corrie Moreau and Charles D. Bell were the first to establish the origin of ants at 140 to 168 million years ago using molecular sequence data, 40 million years older than previous estimates.
In 2018, the entomopathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps naomipierceae was named in Pierce's honor.
She is married to evolutionary biologist and historian of science Andrew Berry (biologist), and they have twin children.
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