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Building from eight years of collaboration and two international working conferences, researchers from the University of Colorado and the University of Cambridge, and CISW, 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.  

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.  Those reviews were also reflected in Work Meets Life’s placement by Library Journal’s list of the top twenty “Best Sellers in Biology”.

Additional information on Work Meets Life, and the academic journal reviews, may be found here.  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.  

Also in development are short small-group collaborative working conferences on selected topics from Work Meets Life to form the foundation of collaborative research initiatives.  The first of these is being developed under the working title Energy and Resource Allocation in Neural Systems.