The Promislow lab is located at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, at Tufts University in downtown Boston. The lab has openings for undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs interested in studies on natural variation in aging in fruit flies and companion dogs. The lab uses quantitative genetics, systems biology, and theoretical models to ask a broad range of aging-related questions. Some current projects are described here.
Graduate students: Students interested in joining my lab can apply through the Department of Biology at Tufts University. We work on a variety of organisms (fruit flies, companion dogs, humans) using a variety of approaches–experimental methods, computation biology, systems biology, and theory. The main criterion for joining the lab is a passion for asking interesting questions and a willingness to work hard to answer them.
Undergraduates: If you are an undergraduate at Tufts interested in getting involved in research, feel free to contact me by email. We typically have ~10 undergraduates in the lab working on a range of projects and with a range of independence based on student’s interest and goals.
In addition to those wanting to carry out empirical studies, students with interests in computational, statistical or mathematical projects are also welcome to contact me. Students from my lab have gone on to graduate school, medical school, biotech, and more.
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Dr Daniel Promislow
Promislow Lab 