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Congratulations to Marian Dominguez-Mirazo on Successfully Passing Her Ph.D. Thesis Defense!

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 Variability on Viral Dynamics,” offers new insight into how natural variation in phage infection timing influences […]

Congratulations to Emma Wachter on Her Successful Honors Thesis Defense!

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 Cancer Institute for a postbac before pursuing graduate studies. We’re excited to see what comes next!

Raunek Day Receives Three University Awards

Raunek Day Receives Three University Awards

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 […]

Quantitative Biosciences Textbook and Lab Guides Now Available

Quantitative Biosciences Textbook and Lab Guides Now Available

After nearly 10 years in development, the textbook “Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations” and associated lab guides are now available to order from Princeton University Press and Amazon. Written by Prof. Weitz, the book serves as “a hands-on approach to quantitative reasoning in the life sciences.” Combined with companion guides in MATLAB, […]

Virivores, the organism can eat up to a million viruses a day

Virivores, the organism can eat up to a million viruses a day

Prof. Weitz was recently featured in EL PAÍS as an expert reference on why microbes may be motivated to consume viruses. “Because viral genomes are relatively densely packed – and because genetic material is rich in phosphorus – viruses have higher phosphorus content than typical microbes. Therefore, they might have a nutritional bonus.” — Joshua […]

Bacteria-Virus Arms Race Provides Rare Window into Rapid and Complex Evolution

Bacteria-Virus Arms Race Provides Rare Window into Rapid and Complex Evolution

This press release was originally published on https://today.ucsd.edu. As conceived by Charles Darwin in the 1800s, evolution is a slow, gradual process during which species adaptations are inherited incrementally over generations. However, today biologists can see how evolutionary changes unfold on much more accelerated timescales. Rather than the evocative plants and animals of the Galapagos […]

Collaborative Paper Published in Science

Collaborative Paper Published in Science

Look for our new paper out in Science, titled “Rapid bacteria-phage coevolution drives the emergence of multiscale networks.” This work is was done in collaboration with Justin Meyer and his group of researchers from the University of California in San Diego. The editor’s summary of this article reads: Real communities are characterized by complex interaction […]

Shashwat successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Shashwat successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

On March 22nd, 2023, Shashwat Shivam successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Endogenous and Exogenous Control of Virus-Host Dynamics,’’ earning his Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering. Congratulations, Shashwat! To learn more about Shashwat’s dissertation, read the abstract below. Optimization and control techniques are ubiquitous and used in diverse fields such as Mathematics, Engineering and Science. […]