Michael Levin
Developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts; studies bioelectricity, co-created xenobots.
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- Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist, born in Moscow in 1969.
- He is Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and directs its Allen Discovery Center.
- His lab studies how bioelectric signals between cells guide development, regeneration and cancer suppression.
- He co-discovered xenobots, living robots made from frog skin cells.
- He writes the blog Forms of life, forms of mind.
Key facts
- Born
- 1969, Moscow; the family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, in 19781
- Education
- Bachelor’s degrees in computer science and biology, Tufts; PhD in genetics, Harvard1
- Roles
- Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology and professor of biomedical engineering, Tufts; director of the Allen Discovery Center and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology1
- Also
- Co-director of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms, with Josh Bongard1
- Lab
- Independent lab at the Forsyth Institute from 2000; moved to Tufts in 20091
- Known for
- Bioelectric signalling in regeneration; basal cognition; co-discovering xenobots1
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