Professor
Tufts University
Michael Levin’s work focuses on novel ways to understand and control complex pattern formation. His lab uses molecular genetics, biophysics, and computational modeling approaches to address large-scale control of growth and form in frogs, flatworms, and sometimes zebrafish and human tissues in culture. The goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms necessary for morphogenesis, and also to uncover and exploit the cooperative signaling dynamics that enable complex bodies to build and remodel themselves toward a correct structure. Our major goal is to understand how individual cell behaviors are orchestrated towards appropriate large-scale outcomes despite unpredictable environmental perturbations.