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.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Guanlin Li successfully defended his dissertation today, entitled “Optimization and control of virus-host systems.” Congratulations to the newest Ph.D. in the Georgia Tech School of Physics, Dr. Guanlin Li. To learn more about Guanlin, read his student feature.
Shashwat Shivam successfully passed his thesis proposal, entitled “Endogenous and exogenous control of virus-host dynamics,” and was admitted into PhD candidacy. Congratulations to the newest PhD candidate in Georgia Tech’s College of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
This summer, King will begin a virtual data science internship at Bayer CropScience. His main duties will involve developing a robust metabolomics database as well as tools for automated searching and processing. He will also work on developing methods for batch processing data file conversions and generating streamlined workflows. His projects will involve the analysis, […]
Rogelio Rodriguez Gonzalez passed his thesis proposal “Computational models to study phage therapy efficacy in multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections,’’ and was officially admitted for his Ph.D. candidacy.
Andreea Magalie passed her thesis proposal ‘Risks, benefits and eco-evolutionary implications of bacterial dormancy in microbial systems’ and was officially admitted for her Ph.D. candidacy.