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2024 Bioinformatics Outstanding Student Awards

Each year, the Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program recognizes outstanding students who have demonstrated exemplary leadership in bioinformatics and computational biology, while integrating research and education on the use of information technologies in biology and medicine. Faculty members nominated students and an interdisciplinary committee of faculty members selected the winners.  Please join us in congratulating the following two outstanding students!

Bioinformatics Career Mentoring 2024

Bioinformatics Career Mentoring 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
The Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience 

Agenda
8:00-8:15am = Arrival/Check-in
8:20-8:30am = Welcome, Professor King Jordan
8:35-9:05am = Internship Panel
9:05-9:15am = Break
9:20-9:50 = Job Search Panel
10:00am-12:00pm = Table Topics – Students to switch tables every 20 minutes
12:15pm-1:55pm = Lunch for Internship and Job Search Panelists

Table Topics:

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