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Erin Connolly, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences
 
Erin Connolly
 
Defended her thesis:
Contributions of Immune Effector Cells to Cancer and Sex-Biased Aging
 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
10:00am Eastern
Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), Room #4029
  
Thesis advisor:
Dr. Greg Gibson  School of Biological Sciences  Georgia Institute of Technology
 

Kenji Gerhardt, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Kenji Gerhardt

Defends his thesis:
Tools for interactive analysis of metagenomic read recruitment, sensitive detection and quantification of genes in metagenomes, and rapid, large scale genome relatedness estimation

August 12th (Monday), 2024 
2pm Eastern
Room: ES&T L1118 building
Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94881105498

Jianshu Zhao, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Jianshu Zhao

Defends his thesis:
Bioinformatic Software Development for Large-Scale Microbial Genome Analysis with Applications in Disturbance Ecology and SAR11 Species Evolution

Tuesday, July 9, 2024
3:00pm Eastern
Room: 3229 ES&T building
Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92904499229

Ben Metcalf, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Benjamin Metcalf

Defends his thesis:
The Interrelationship Between Bacterial and Societal Factors Drives Pneumococcal Transmission and Disease Progression

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
2:00pm
BME Whitaker building, Room 1214

Thesis Advisor:
Dr. Sam Brown, Advisor
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

Eunbi Park, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Eunbi Park

Defends her thesis:
Modeling emergent patterning within pluripotent colonies through Boolean canalizing functions

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
11:00 AM
Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), Room #5029
Zoom Link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/98921652004?pwd=QmxVZUNxdVgvMVhYU1BUMGs4alJ0dz09
Meeting ID: 989 2165 2004

2024 Best Papers, Bioinformatics Graduate Program

The Bioinformatics interdisciplinary graduate program is pleased to report that our faculty selection committee has reviewed the nominations for J. Leland Jackson Fellowships. Three Bioinformatics students have been selected for Best Paper awards.

Rohini Janivara (Advisor Joe Lachance), 
Best Paper PhD Student = $1000 fellowship
Rohini is first-author for a publication currently under review in “Nature Genetics,” for her publication, “Heterogeneous genetic architectures and evolutionary genomics of prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.”