Marian aids in outreach effort to slow the spread of Covid-19
Marian Dominguez-Mirazo worked with students at Ivan Allen College’s Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center to show how video games can help slow the spread of Covid-19. Marian Dominguez-Mirazo, designed the epidemiological model used in the video games to...
Look for our paper in ISME J
Dr. Stephen Beckett and Prof. Joshua Weitz contributed to a new study published in ISME J that measured the infected fraction of Prochlorococcus cells in the North Pacific ocean. The iPolony method suggests that less than 2% of Prochlorococcus cells in the surface...
Prof. Weitz Receives Distinguished Patton Professorship
Professor Joshua Weitz received the distinguished Patton Professorship from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
We welcome Dr. Jessica Irons to the group
Dr. Jessica Irons joined the Weitz Group as the Scientific Project Coordinator & Data Communications Specialist. She has a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Georgia where she studied microbial metabolism of Salmonella enterica, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,...
We welcome King to our group
We are delighted to welcome King (Quan) Nguyen, an undergraduate in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department with a minor in Computational Data Analysis (Data Science), to the...
Jeremy Harris joins the group
Dr. Jeremy Harris, Ph.D. joins the Weitz group from the Koelle lab, where he collaborated with experimentalists to study cellular-coinfection of influenza A virus in cell...
Look for our paper in NatureMedicine
Several members of the group and our collaborators published an article in Nature Medicine where we modeled shield immunity. With shield immunity, Covid-19 recovered individuals (with antibodies against Covid-19) could be deployed as focal points for safer...
Demory and Coenen publish a paper on marine viral ecology
David Demory and Ashley Coenen recently published an article in mSystems “Linking Light-Dependent Life History Traits with Population Dynamics for Prochlorococcus and...
Welcome to the group, Dr. Lucia-Sanz
Adriana Lucia-Sanz, Ph.D. joined the Weitz group in March 2020 from Dr. Manrubia’s group in Spain. They hold a Ph.D. on Virus Evolution. Their principal research interests focus on how biological systems behave in a quantitative and qualitative way, how we can...
Rogelio Rodriguez Gonzalez publishes phage-antibiotics paper in mSystems
Rogelio Rodriguez Gonzalez’ recently published his paper entitled “Quantitative Models of Phage-Antibiotic Combination Therapy” in mSystems. Congratulations,...
Prof. Weitz publishes opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution condemning Georgia Tech’s “temporary” student fees
Prof. Weitz gives his opinion on the state of student fees for graduate students at Georgia Tech. As a professor and graduate studies director, I am deeply worried this practice of ever-increasing fees has been allowed to continue for far too long within the...
Prof. Weitz publishes opinion piece in Atlanta Journal Constitution condemning President Trump’s border policy
Prof. Weitz and assistant professor at Spelman College Maira Goytia share their opinions about President Trump’s border policy in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. There should be no doubt that the practice of separating children from families at borders and...