Building from eight years of collaboration and聽two international working conferences, researchers from聽the University of Colorado and the University of Cambridge, and CISW,聽developed an inaugural volume on the integrative study of work in living systems, Work Meets Life: Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems, published by the MIT Press.
This guidebook links research from a wide range of fields to work in living systems, including research in cellular physiology, neurobiology, biogeochemistry, electrical and computer engineering and multiobjective optimization, evolutionary biology, integrative design, industrial and organizational psychology, environmental physiology, and psychoneuroimmunology. 聽
Five book reviews of Work Meets Life in academic journals have praised the innovative, integrative, and in-depth approach of both the collaborative research effort and the volume. 聽Those reviews were also reflected in Work Meets Life鈥檚 placement by Library Journal鈥檚 list of the top twenty 鈥淏est Sellers in Biology鈥�.
Additional information on Work Meets Life, and the academic journal reviews, may be found here. 聽Complete copies of the book reviews are available on request.
A short course is in development on the topic of work in living systems, in which the chapter authors will participate, both those in Colorado and internationally. 聽
Also in development are short small-group collaborative聽working conferences聽on selected topics from聽Work Meets Life聽to form the foundation of collaborative research initiatives. 聽The first of these is being developed under the working title聽Energy and Resource Allocation in Neural Systems.
