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Welcome to the Department of Biology

The Tufts Department of Biology is dedicated to providing a unified and comprehensive view of biological processes for our students.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

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Faculty Highlights

Congratulations to Zarin Machanda and her team, whose Science paper “Social Selectivity in Aging Wild Chimpanzees” made the cover of Science magazine!

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Department Announcements

Tufts Biology welcomes three new full-time faculty this Fall 2026 semester: Dr. Smita Gopinath, Dr. Rebecca Delker, and Dr. Chris Desjardins. We are so excited to have them join us, helping to expand our department!

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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.