Overview

We hire people with specific skills at many levels: post-doctoral fellows, technicians, research associates, staff scientists, etc., as new projects are initiated. Our lab is about 3/4ths bench biologists and 1/4th computational/data scentists. At this time Dr. Levin is not able to take on new Ph.D. students. Areas of interest to our research program include experience in:

1. Bioengineering - bio-compatible materials science, instrumentizing living tissue, closed-loop control systems
2. Building custom Electrical/Optical/Micro- and Meso-fluidic systems with computer controls for interfacing living cells and tissues
3. Electrophysiology and optogenetics
4. Molecular developmental biology with experience in frog, chick, or zebrafish models
5. Mammalian regenerative biology
6. Computational approaches to AI, Alife, machine learning, bioinformatics
7. Basic cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry

We welcome post-doctoral applications from people who are in the finishing stages of their Ph.D. but may not be ready to move yet (plans can also be made for over a year in the future as well, since it is often the case that the most competitive candidates make arrangements well in advance).

We are looking for talented, versatile, highly motivated scientists with experience in molecular techniques and a background in developmental biology, electrophysiology, neurobiology, bioengineering, and related disciplines who want to do work that isn't being done anywhere else. People with a computer science/engineering background are also encouraged to apply. Our lab utilizes the frog, planarian, mammalian cell organoids, slime mold, and synthetic biobot systems to understand cellular behavior, and scaling of primitive cognition. We have projects on unconventional substrates for learning, neuroplasticity, and morphogenesis and behavior in synthetic organisms. Our work uses a convergence of molecular embryology, cell biology, biophysics, physiology, and mathematical modeling, and this is a great opportunity for someone to develop truly frontier science. Many exciting projects are available. If you are interested, please email michael.levin@tufts.edu. Candidates will be asked to send a CV, provide 3 letters of reference, and asked to give a presentation to the group.

For Tufts undergraduate students, we are interested in:

• Computer Science undergrads for part-time software work
• Computer Science graduate students for thesis projects in computer modeling of biological signal processing
• Cognitive and Brain sciences undergrads for projects in behavioral science of unconventional model systems
• Biology undergrads for part-time work throughout the year and independent study (we have a waiting list, please contact us early)