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Congratulations to Shashwat Nagar (MS) and Will Overholt (PhD), who were recognized as the 2017 Outstanding Students in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech!

Luis Miguel Rodriguez-Rojas graduated with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics with a minor in Biomedical Engineering.

"Population Genomics of Human Polymorphic Transposable Elements"

"Bioinformatic Tools for Testing Microbial Ecology Theory in Natural Environments through Metagenomics"

"Scalable Mapping-Free Algorithms and K-MER Data Structures for Genomic Analysis"

"Improving Algorithms of Gene Prediction in Prokaryotic Genomes, Metagenomes, and Eukaryotic Transcriptomes"

Juan Gallo, a visiting doctoral student from Colombia, was selected as one of the 10 winners of MIT Technological Reviews Innovators Under 35 COLOMBIA 2015, with his work on genomics and bioinformatics in clinical microbiology and human chronic disease research.

Bioinformatics PhD Student Shiyuyun (Gena) Tang was selected for a $1500 travel award at the Georgia Tech Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) held March 6, 2015.

"Studies in MicroRNA Function and Gene Dysregulation in Ovarian Cancer"

Detection and Characterization of Gene-Fusions in Breast and Ovarian Cancer using High-Throughput Sequencing