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.
Multiple professional opportunities in quantitative viral dynamics research are available in the Weitz Group, including Ph.D. and postdoctoral positions. Ph.D. Positions Ph.D. positions are available in quantitative viral dynamics spanning viral ecology (i.e., phage-microbe dynamics) and epidemic dynamics (i.e., SARS-CoV-2 modeling) starting in Aug 2022. The Weitz Group recruits from Ph.D. programs at the Georgia […]
Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University has announced a winter school centered around Quantitative Viral Dynamics Across Scales. The school will run for one week (March 21-25, 2022), and aims to “bring thought leaders in dialogue with the next generation of early-career scientists to advance the integrative study of quantitative viral dynamics across scales.” Prof. […]
On October 19th, 2021, Marian Dominguez-Mirazo successfully defended her thesis proposal entitled “Cell fate modulation from infection to population dynamics’’ and was officially admitted for her Ph.D. candidacy. To learn more about Marian’s thesis work, read the abstract below. Viruses are obligate parasites that require their host’s synthesis machinery to replicate. Viruses are the most abundant […]
Plants – even microscopic ones – come in all shapes and sizes. As important players in the Earth’s carbon cycle, marine researchers are particularly interested in what determines the size of phytoplankton, photosynthesizing microorganisms that live near the ocean’s surface. When these microscopic plant-like organisms sink to deeper ocean waters, they sequester the carbon they’ve […]
Prof. Weitz recently shared his take on predicting the trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic in an article published in Wired Magazine. Discussing how the perceived risk of infection can impact human behavior, Prof. Weitz explained that this complex relationship makes predicting where the Covid-19 pandemic will head next difficult. “The prevailing theme that continues to […]
In collaboration with Benjamin Lopman‘s group at Emory University, our recent work entitled “A framework for monitoring population immunity to SARS-CoV-2” was published in Annals of Epidemiology. The proposed framework suggests combining records of vaccinations and natural infections to assess immunity to Covid-19 at the population level. A dashboard was also created to track estimates […]
Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. students Marian Dominguez-Mirazo and Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez have been awarded fellowships by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology, for their thesis research. These fellowships will provide Dominguez-Mirazo and Rodriguez-Gonzalez partial scholarships to continue their graduate research at Georgia Tech. “The nice part about [writing […]
In collaboration with researchers from Georgia Tech, Brown University, and the Technical University of Denmark, Prof Weitz has published a new paper entitled “Heterogeneity in susceptibility dictates the order of epidemic models” in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. This work examines the complicated relationship between susceptibility to infection and infection spread in epidemics, highlighting the need […]
Prof. Weitz and Associate Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Peng Qiu recently received a five-year, $1.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a new training program. The $1.27 million T32 training grant will create the Integrative and Quantitative Biosciences Accelerated Training Environment (InQuBATE) Predoctoral Training Program at Georgia Tech, […]
A paper entitled “Disease-dependent interaction policies to support health and economic outcomes during the Covid-19 epidemic” is now available in iScience. This study examines the effectiveness of modulating the rate of interaction between individuals based on the epidemic state in mitigating Covid-19. Results demonstrate that using population-wide PCR testing for Covid-19 alongside immune status “can reduce […]