Jeremy Harris organizes (safe) in-person meet-ups for the group
As social events co-chair in the Weitz group, Jeremy has helped setup (outdoor) in-person meetups for purposes of science and leisure.
Look for Daniel’s publication in ISMEJ
Daniel Muratore co-authored a new publication in ISMEJ. This study examined the day-night pigment budgeting of marine phytoplankton, identifying night as an important recovery phase to rebuild photoreactive pigments that are degraded by UV-radiation during the...
Ashley presents at the annual NSF BioOceans conference
Ashley Coenen presented at the annual NSF BioOceans conference (virtually, this year). BioOceans is a multi-institute collaboration which aims to characterize bacteria-phage infection networks in surface ocean communities. The presentation prompted discussion among...
Andreea passes her thesis proposal
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....
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...