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Michael Levin Agential Interventions: From Diverse Intelligence to Nextgeneration Biomedicine
Michael Levin is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, and associate faculty at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. He serves as the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the codirector of the Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms at Tufts/UVM. He has published over 400 peerreviewed publications across developmental biology, computer science, and philosophy of mind. Dr. Levin received dual B.S. degrees in computer science and biology, followed by a Ph.D. from Harvard with Clifford Tabin. His graduate work on the molecular basis of leftright asymmetry (Cell 1995) was chosen by the journal Nature as a “Milestone in Developmental Biology in the last century”. He did postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Medicine in cell biology, and started his independent lab in 2000, developing the first molecular tools to read and write bioelectric prepatterns in nonneural tissue. His group at Tufts works to understand information processing and problemsolving across scales, in a range of naturally evolved, synthetically engineered, and hybrid living systems. The Levin lab has pioneered approaches to organ regeneration, cancer reprogramming, nongenetic modification of the bodyplan, and the engineering of novel living protoorganisms. Using tools from behavioral and computer science, Dr. Levin seeks to understand the collective intelligence of cells and harness their problemsolving capacities for applications in birth defects, regeneration, cancer, and synthetic bioengineering.

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Timecodes
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:35 Diverse Intelligence and Emergent Cognition
03:13 Planarian Regeneration Experiment
06:59 Biological Networks and Learning
09:14 Anatomical Plasticity and Regenerative Medicine
12:57 Memory Transfer in Planarians
18:07 Bowtie Nodes and Communication Interfaces
21:26 Memory Interpretation and Evolutionary Adaptation
30:54 Evolution and ProblemSolving Agents
31:42 Biological Plasticity and Adaptive Stories
33:13 Implications for Computer Science
34:35 Bioelectric Interfaces in Medicine
36:22 Modular Bioelectric Signals and Organ Regeneration
39:34 Repairing Birth Defects and Cancer Reprogramming
42:44 Future Medicine: Somatic Psychiatry
43:57 HumanDerived Bio Bots
48:06 Q&A Session
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