Stuart Levine

Stuart Levine first arrived in Cambridge, MA as an undergraduate, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Biology from MIT and later a PhD in Biochemistry from Harvard University. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute as part of Richard Young’s lab, investigating bioinformatics approaches to analyzing genome-wide data sets — including some of the earliest ChIP-seq, RNAseq and smallRNA-seq data. Stuart became a research scientist at the Whitehead in 2007, and a year later assumed the role of BioMicro Center Director, leading the strategic growth and day-to-day management of this core facility, located in Building 68. The BioMicro Center is operated in collaboration between the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering at MIT, the Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research, and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences. It provides MIT faculty members with integrated facilities for high-throughput data-intensive genomics, bioinformatic analysis, as well as large-scale database storage, management, data mining and data modeling required to fully implement systems approaches to investigate a broad spectrum of biological problems. As the director, Stuart brings a broad range of expertise and knowledge of genomic and bioinformatics approaches to biological problems. In 2015, he earned the MIT Infinite Mile Award, followed by the MIT Excellence Award in 2017. Stuart is also President of Northeastern Regional Life Sciences Core Directors (NERLSCD) and Chair of the DNA Sequencing Research Group of the Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities (ABRF).