Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.
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 Cancer Institute for a postbac before pursuing graduate studies. We’re excited to see what comes next!
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 microbes reduce competition by absorbing nutrients at different times of day, offering new insight into how […]
This press release was originally published by the University of Maryland’s Department of Biology. Researchers at the University of Maryland and University of Pennsylvania show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. In the wake of sweeping cuts to federal funding for scientific […]
Group member Raunek Dey, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics, has recently received three awards through the University of Maryland (UMD) to fund his research and conference travel. UMD Microbiome Center Summer Scholarship This scholarship was awarded to Raunak through the UMD Center of Excellence in Microbiome Studies to support his research project […]
Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez recently defended his thesis, successfully earning a Ph.D. in Biology in Quantitative Biosciences from Georgia Tech. His project entitled “Computational Models of Phage Therapy from In Vitro Settings to In Vivo Infections” addresses the urgent global challenge of antimicrobial resistance through innovative approaches in phage therapy. Focusing on enhancing the efficacy of phage […]