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Meet Srinivas Aluru, executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). IDEaS is one of Georgia Tech's 11…
For the past six years, multidisciplinary researchers from across the world have been probing northern Minnesota peat bogs in an unprecedented, long-…
Researchers are already hard at work trying to find fast scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis, which the Department of…
The collaboration between experts at Georgia Institute of Technology and Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC) that was launched last year is…
Lily Cheung, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has won a $1.1 million Human Science Frontier…
It may not be a process that most people are familiar with, but DNA methylation is very important to brain evolution. It’s viewed as a critical…
With the sequencing of the human genome, scientists say personalized medicine is a more realistic goal. A future of customized medications, better…
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Woodruff School Professors Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb…
The origins of life on Earth present some of the most intriguing questions of all time and have been a topic of active scientific research for…
The study of pharmacogenomics – the merger of pharmacology with genomics – is an exploration of how an individual’s genes respond to certain drugs,…
Theory Plus Data, Across Disciplines: What’s New in the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology
The Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology (SCMB), which is headquartered at Georgia Tech, sits squarely at the critical intersection…
After devoting almost 35 years to the field of bioinformatics, Mark Borodovsky, a Regents Professor and director of the Center for Bioinformatics and…
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, two human factors are battling it out: awareness of the virus’s severe consequences and fatigue from nine…
Genomes are routinely subjected to DNA damage. But most cells have DNA repair systems that enforce genome stability and, ideally, prevent diseases…
When it comes to gas clathrates — collections of water molecules that can trap gas inside a lattice-like crystal structure — science sees them as…
On August 4, 2020, Greg Gibson and Joshua Weitz provided updates on Covid-19 projections and coronavirus surveillance testing, with a focus on…
It’s a question older than science: How did life begin? In modern biology, life depends on life to live. But how did the mutualistic relationship…
See the full 40 Under 40 list on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association website.The Georgia Tech Alumni Association has announced 40 distinguished…
Visit the web app: COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
This web app is very popular, and its servers are being upgraded daily.
If the…
This web app is very popular, and its servers are being upgraded daily.
If the…
Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University are participating in the largest exercise research program of its kind as…
Student News
Congratulations to Bioinformatics doctoral student, Alli Gombolay, who was selected for a 2019-20 ARCS Scholar Award…
In 2019, the Bioinformatics Graduate Program welcomed 31 new MS students (fall) and 8 new PhD (spring and fall) students.…
Bioinformatics doctoral student Alli Gombolay was selected for the 2019 O'Hara Fellowship. This fellowship is presented to…
Biao Zeng thesis defense: "Blood eQTL detection in structured populations and its application to interpretation of genetic…
12/12/2018
Shengyun Peng Thesis Defense: "Understanding virus-host interactions through single cell and whole genome analysis"
Thesis…
Thesis defense for Nicholas A. Kovacs:Data Mining the Structure of the Ribosome to Unravel the History of Proteins Committee…
12/12/2018
Sarthak Sharma hails from the small city of Meerut, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in India. After going to school there, he…
We cannot fully understand DNA, its properties, functions and threats without a bioinformatics approach to study it.…
On August 17, 2018, Juliana Soto-Giron presented the oral defense of her PhD thesis, entitled,"From Genomes to Metagenomes:…
8/08/2018
Congratulations to Yuanbo Wang (PhD) and Sarthak Sharma (MS) who were recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Students in…
8/08/2018
On May 7, 2018, Cai Huang defended his PhD thesis,"k-mer based data structures and heuristics for microbes and cancer."…
5/05/2018
Will A. Overholt spent the first 11 years of his life in Kenya, one of the malaria hotspots of the world, rife with…
On March 14, 2018, Will Overholt successfully defended his PhD Thesis: "The response of marine benthic microbial populations…
Transposable Element Polymorphism and Human Genome Regulation Defense Date: Monday, November 6th, 2017 Thesis Advisor: Dr.…
Congratulations to Shashwat Nagar (MS) and Will Overholt (PhD), who were recognized as the 2017 Outstanding Students in…
Congratulations to Shashwat Nagar (MS) and Will Overholt (PhD), who were recognized as the 2017 Outstanding Students in…
Luis Miguel Rodriguez-Rojas graduated with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. He came to…
Monday, November 7th, 2016
Thesis Advisor:
Dr. King Jordan, School of Biological Sciences
Committee Members:
Dr. John…
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Thesis Advisor Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Committee…
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Thesis Advisor: Dr. Fredrik Vannberg (School of Biology) Committee Members: Dr. King Jordan (School…
7/07/2016