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.
The Predictive Biology Hub for Human and Environmental Health (PBH) officially launched at the University of Maryland on September 9, 2026. PBH leaders, co-principal investigators, graduate students, and prospective collaborators gathered for an afternoon of discussion about the Hub’s research initiatives. Presenters representing departments across campus, including mathematics, physics, geography, biology, and global health, shared […]
We congratulate and welcome Spencer Hobson-Gutierrez, a new postdoctoral researcher joining us from NYU who will be working with the Weitz group and the Maltas group at the University of Maryland through a Quantitative Biology Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship. Additionally, we congratulate Weitz group postdoc Julie Pourtois on her Quantitative Biology Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship which will […]
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!
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 […]