New preprint on Interpreting Breakthrough Infections
New collaborative preprint on the risk and interpretation of ‘breakthrough infections’ amidst declining childhood vaccination rates and a sustained, national measles epidemic, co-led with Mallory Harris in collaboration with Akash Arani, Tapan Goel, Kejia...
STAT opinion article: Takeaways from mapping the impacts of NIH cuts
Joshua Weitz writes about his insights that he and his collaborative team gained from the collaborative SCIMaP project in this STAT opinion article. A quantitative measure of scientific output (or the lack thereof) is commonly hard to estimate. SCIMaP has helped to...
Raunak’s feature on CMNS – When Physics and Math Go Viral
Raunak Dey, a physics graduate student in the group, was featured on UMD’s news page of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. “Some viruses can be useful, and some viruses can be harmful,” Dey said in this article. “The beauty of it is...
New Funding from Open Philanthropy to Study Impact of Science
Joshua Weitz received a new award from ‘Open Philanthropy’ to engage in collaborative work with University of Pennsylvania and Georgia Tech. The team will develop an interactive, data-driven map to visualize and communicate the economic impacts of proposed...
Michael Roswell off to a new start!
Congratulations to Michael Roswell who is starting a new position as a high school biology teacher in Anne Arundel County, MD. We wish you all the best on your new...
New Paper Published in the ISME Journal
A new paper co-authored by Akash Arani (co-first author) and Prof. Joshua Weitz has been published in The ISME Journal. The study, titled “Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus–bacterial...
New Paper on Virus Evolution: Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Temperate Phages
A new paper authored by Tapan Goel, along with Stephen Beckett and Prof. Joshua Weitz, has been published in Virus Evolution. The study, titled “Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments,” uses non-linear differential equations to simulate...
Prof. Joshua Weitz Featured on the Critical Speaking Podcast
Prof. Joshua Weitz recently joined Dr. Teri Markow on the Critical Speaking Podcast to discuss the role of asymptomatic individuals in the spread of COVID-19 and the broader implications for how we understand and prepare for pandemics. The conversation covers the...
Congratulations to Marian Dominguez-Mirazo on Successfully Passing Her Ph.D. Thesis Defense!
The Weitz Group is thrilled to announce that Marian Dominguez-Mirazo has successfully passed her thesis defense and has earned a Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences from the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her dissertation, “Impact of Latent Period...
Congratulations to Emma Wachter on Her Successful Honors Thesis Defense!
Congratulations to Emma Wachter, an undergraduate researcher in the Weitz Group, for successfully defending her Honors Thesis titled “Assessing mechanisms of non-exponential decay in viral systems.” After graduating this May, Emma will join the Dana-Farber...
Publication named QBioS Best Eco-Evo Paper at Georgia Tech
Group member Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, co-authored a paper recently selected as the Best Paper in Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology for the 2024 QBioS Award at Georgia Tech. Published in mBio, the paper, titled...
New paper published in PNAS on coexistence of marine microbes
A new paper co-led by Prof. Weitz has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Entitled “Evidence for temporal partitioning of phosphorus uptake in microbial communities of the North Atlantic Ocean,” the study reveals that marine...