Bioelectricity, Cancer & Human Healing

A public session archive with the complete seminar deck, high-fidelity and mobile video files, acknowledgements, and a readable index of the sources and image credits carried by the deck.

Presenters

  • Min Zhao — UC Davis — invited speaker; unable to attend due to a family emergency.
  • Michael Levin — Tufts University
  • Saverio Gentile — Medical University of South Carolina
  • Joel Dietz — Bioelectricity Nexus
  • Nirosha Murugan — Algoma University / Allen Discovery Center

    • With thanks

    Thank you to the speakers; the laboratories and collaborators behind the research; the original authors and journals whose ideas and images appear in the deck; and everyone who kept the exchange open.

    Session and deck

  • Full deck: /deck/bioelectricity-course-medical-outcomes.html
  • Transcript, errata and time-anchored comments: /deck/bioelectricity-course-medical-outcomes-transcript.html
  • Mobile download: /downloads/bioelectricity-human-healing-full-session.mp4

    • Opening-slide visual mosaic

  • Anthrobot trio and cilia confocal microscopy — G. Gumuskaya et al., Levin Lab, Tufts University.
  • Xenobot swimming microscopy — Blackiston, Kriegman, Bongard, Levin et al., Tufts / UVM.
  • Frog-face brightfield and voltage-dye imaging — Vandenberg, Morrie & Adams; D. S. Adams / Levin Lab.
  • Planarian regeneration — Levin Lab; Oviedo, Beane, Durant, Levin et al.
  • Developing-embryo membrane-voltage panels — Levin Lab / Allen Discovery Center, CC-BY.

    • All seven opening-slide panels are real microscopy or laboratory imagery; no AI-generated imagery is used in the mosaic.

    Additional visual provenance

  • Historical archives — New York Academy of Medicine, Wellcome Collection, Science Museum Group, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Collection Trust, National Library of Medicine, Gallerie dell’Accademia, DPLA and Wikimedia Commons.
  • Morphospace and computational media — Galvani (1791), D’Arcy Thompson (1917), Turing reaction-diffusion via fractastical/morpholib, Raup (1966–1967), Wolfram Demonstrations, Distill Growing NCA and Self-Organising Textures.
  • Contemporary research imagery — Levin Lab, Allen Discovery Center, Lobo & Levin, Murugan et al. (2022), Weiner et al. (2022), Atasoy et al. (2016–2017), and the morpholib wave-vector pipeline.
  • Session portraits and source-deck composites — Bioelectricity Nexus event archive, institutional/profile materials and Michael Levin talk materials; some original photographer/source URLs were not retained.
  • Claims-audit product thumbnails — manufacturer/product or audit-reference pages used for identification and critical commentary; exact original page URLs were not retained, and inclusion is not endorsement.

    • The public /healing page contains the full categorized visual provenance ledger. All rights remain with the original authors, photographers, institutions, journals and trademark owners.