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
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
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Anastasia Zhurikhina
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
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
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences
Paramita Chatterjee
Defends her thesis:
Transcriptomics Investigation Of Multi-Site and Multi-Tissue Derived Cell Therapy Products In Clinical Applications for Osteoarthritis
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
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences
Margaret Brown
Defends her thesis:
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.”