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Tufts Biology welcomes five new full-time faculty this Fall 2025 semester: Dr Douglass Blackiston, Dr Jaye Gardiner, Dr Jennifer Mortensen, Dr Randi Rotjan, and Dr Khoa Tran. We are so excited to have them join us, helping to expand our department’s research, outreach, and inclusion!

Learn more about the Department of Biology's inclusive excellence.

Ben Wolfe and PhD student Nicolas Louw recently discovered that color changes on cheese rinds point to specific molecular mechanisms of genetic adaptation – and sometimes a tastier cheese. This research is published in Current Biology, and you can read more on Tufts Now and in the NY Times.

Michael Levin and PhD student Gizem Gumuskaya, AG23 created “Anthrobots” - tiny multicellular organisms grown from a single human tracheal cell and assembled into new forms, thereby becoming biologically younger than their original adult cells. Originally published in Advanced Science, you can read more on Tufts Now.