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The measles outbreak that began in west Texas in late January 2025 continues to grow, with 400 confirmed cases in Texas and more than 50 in New…
The Final SCMB Symposium is being held on April 10th – 11th, 2025 on Georgia Tech campus. Come see how we connect Mathematical Theory and Biological…
Four million Americans suffer from glaucoma, an incurable eye disease that slowly degrades peripheral vision and eventually leads to blindness.…
In psychology and neuroscience research, a host of behaviors fall under the cognitive umbrella: learning, perceiving the environment, storing…
When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many microbes — like plants and animals — are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief…
From combating cancer and infections to storing energy, lipid-protein interactions are critical to biological processes in cells. But the mechanisms…
In South Florida, two Caribbean lizard species met for the first time. What followed provided some of the clearest evidence to date of evolution in…
Kristine Lacek vividly remembers watching news coverage of the West Africa Ebola outbreak while she was in high school. Inspired by the brave…
A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Georgia Tech’s Francesca Storici, has discovered a previously unknown role for RNA. Their insights…
 From sending cancer into remission to alleviating Covid-19 symptoms, immunotherapy can provide revolutionary disease treatments.…
Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers…
James T. Stroud, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career Assistant Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, has been awarded…
Biomedical engineer Annabelle Singer has spent the past decade developing a noninvasive therapy for Alzheimer’s disease that uses…
In a group of papers released May 1 in the journal Nature, scientists are one step closer to a whole-body map of the body’s cellular responses to…
James T. Stroud has been named an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America.He joins the ranks of nine newly appointed ESA Fellows and…
From her home more than 800 miles away, Georgia Tech online master's student Jasmine Tata is monitoring fish in aquariums at Georgia Tech.…
This article was first published in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign newsroom. Read the full story here.Researchers at Georgia Institute…
What’s in a name? A lot, actually. For the scientific community, names and labels help organize the world’s organisms so they can be identified,…
From Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's to cardiac arrhythmia, amyloids are linked to a number of diseases. These aggregates of proteins form in the body…
For over three decades, a highly accurate early diagnostic test for ovarian cancer has eluded physicians. Now, scientists in the Georgia Tech…

Student News

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the Wallace H.…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
12/12/2019
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the College of…
12/12/2019
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
9/09/2019
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
9/09/2019
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), George Gruenhagen (M.S.), and Prerna Jain (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019…
9/09/2019
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