Faculty & Research

Full and Part-time Faculty

Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney, Professor: Neurobiology, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Harry Bernheim, Associate Professor*: Human Physiology and Immunology
Frances Sze-Ling Chew, Professor*: Ecology
David E. Cochrane, Professor: Cellular Physiology of the Mast Cell
Erik B. Dopman, Assistant Professor: Evolution and Genetics of Natural Populations
George S. Ellmore, Associate Professor*: Experimental Plant Anatomy and Morphology
Susan G. Ernst, Professor: Developmental Biology
Ross S. Feldberg, Emeritus Associate Professor*: Biochemistry
Catherine H. Freudenreich, Associate Professor: Genome Stability in Yeast
Stephen M. Fuchs, Assistant Professor: Chemical Biology and Molecular Biology
Juliet A. Fuhrman, Associate Professor, Chair*: Immunology and Infectious Disease
Michelle Gaudette, Lecturer*: Molecular Biology, Gene Regulation of Development
Susan Koegel, Lecturer*: Cell Biology and Immunology
Sara M. Lewis, Professor: Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology
Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Chair, Professor and Director of Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology: Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems
Kelly McLaughlin, Associate Professor: Molecular Development (Organogenesis)
Mitch McVey, Associate Professor: Molecular biology, genomic instability
Sergei Mirkin, Professor, White Family Chair in Biology: Genetics and Molecular Biology
Colin M. Orians, Professor: Plant Ecology and Plant-Herbivore Interactions
Jan A. Pechenik, Professor: Invertebrate Zoology and Marine Biology
J. Michael Reed, Professor: Conservation Biology
L. Michael Romero, Professor: Physiology and Neuroendocrinology of Stress in Vertebrate
Eli Siegel, Emeritus Professor*
Philip Starks, Associate Professor: Behavioral Ecology
Barry A. Trimmer, Professor, Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences: Neurobiology: Cellular and Molecular Processes in Behavior
Eric D. Tytell, Assistant Professor: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Locomotion
(starting date: September 2012)


* indicates faculty members who are not currently accepting graduate students

Research Faculty

Dany S. Adams, Research Associate Professor
William Woods, Research Assistant Professor

Adjunct Faculty

David Kaplan, Adjunct Professor: Chemical & Biological Engineering; Biotechnology, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering
Mark Pokras, Adjunct Associate Professor, Grafton Campus
Jun Xu, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Grafton Campus

Post Doctoral & Research Associates

Selena Ahmed, in the laboratory of: Colin Orians
Anna Aksenova, in the laboratory of: Sergei Mirkin
Wendy Beane, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Douglas Blackiston, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Elyse Bolterstein, in the laboratory of: Mitch McVey
Sarah DuRant, in the laboratory of: Michael Romero
Sara "Coco" Gomez, in the laboratory of: Colin Orians
Tom Ebersole, in the laboratory of: Sergei Mirkin
Lionel Gellon, in the laboratory of: Catherine Freudenreich
Ethan Golden, in the laboratory of: Barry A. Trimmer
Jane Kim, in the laboratory of: Sergei Mirkin
Melissa Koch, in the laboratory of: Catherine Freudenreich
Joan Lemire, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Daniel Lobo, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Junji Morokuma, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Viabhav Pai, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Laura Schaevitz, in the laboratory of: Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Tal Shomrat, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Ai-Sun Tseng, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Laura Vandenberg, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin

Technical Staff

Amber Currier, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Carter Erwin, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin
Punita Koustubhan, laboratory manager: Michael Levin
Alice Miller, in the laboratory of Mitch McVey
Wayne Rosky, Animal Care Specialist
Claire Stevenson, in the laboratory of: Michael Levin


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