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...
Publication named QBioS Best Eco-Evo Paper at Georgia Tech
Group member Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biology, co-authored a paper recently selected as the Best Paper in Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology for the 2024 QBioS Award at Georgia Tech. Published in mBio, the paper, titled...
New paper published in PNAS on coexistence of marine microbes
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...
Hosting the inaugural Maryland Aquatic Viral Ecology meeting
Dr. Stephen Beckett, Dr. Julie Pourtois, and Dr. Tapan Goel co-organized, and hosted the first Maryland Aquatic Viral Ecology meeting on April 16, 2025 at the University of Maryland, College Park. The meeting brought together local viral ecologists to learn about each...
Prof. Weitz to Give Closing Chaire Blaise Pascal Lecture in Paris
Prof. Weitz will deliver soon deliver his closing lecture as the Chaire Blaise Pascal of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Weitz has held the Blaise Pascal International Chair of Excellence since 2021, and conducted a year of research based at...
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...
Rogelio Rodriguez-Gonzalez Defends His Ph.D. Thesis
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”...
Sharing Science: A Semester of Noteworthy Seminars
During the Spring ’24 semester, the Weitz Group welcomed many distinguished experts in virology and mathematical biology through several University of Maryland (UMD) seminar series, fostering insights into viral ecology, infectious disease dynamics, and...
New paper published in Nature Communications
A new paper has been published in Nature Communications. Entitled “Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre,” the study provides insights into the lifecycle of...
Prof. Weitz to Chair Week-Long Quantitative Viral Dynamics Course in Paris
Prof. Joshua Weitz will serve as the chair for a week-long, interactive course entitled ‘Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales’, to be held in Paris this summer. Hosted by the Q-Life Institute at Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University, a...
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...
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Consider gifting to the Quantitative Viral Dynamics (QVD) Research Fund to support the professional development of students and early career researchers in the Weitz Group, who work to understand how viruses impact human and environmental health. Your gifts will...