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This week, Professor Joel Kostka was awar­ded the pres­ti­gi­ous Humboldt Research Award by the Al­ex­an­der von Hum­boldt Found­a­tion…
Stephanie Prince explains her research with a scenario many Atlantans can relate to.Imagine you’re driving to the Atlanta airport to pick up a friend…
Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break…
Lynn Kamerlin, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Vasser Woolley Chair in Molecular Design in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has…
How did life originate? Ancient proteins may hold important clues. Every organism on Earth is made up of proteins. Although all organisms — even…
Imagine unlocking universal immunotherapies and cancer treatments, powerful vaccines, and a deeper understanding of our own immune systems. Georgia…
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…
Georgia Tech scientists are revealing how decades-long research programs have transformed our understanding of evolution, from laboratory petri…
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…

Student News

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in the…
11/11/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in the…
8/08/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
11/11/2021
Congratulations to Tomáš Brůna (PhD), Penghao Xu (PhD), and Sreenath Srikrishnan (MS), who were recognized as the 2022…
9/09/2022
Congratulations to Bioinformatics doctoral student Harris Jeong, who was selected for this year's O'Hara fellowship.
Calvin Runnels, advisee of Bioinformatics professor Loren Williams, studies the origins of life.
Researchers have developed a new informatics technology that analyzes existing data repositories of protein modifications and 3D protein…
The Georgia Institute of Technology topped Business Insider’s list of smartest public colleges in America.
Lavanya Rishishwar, a Doctoral student in Bioinformatics, was featured in "Los 2 Orillas" for his work in Colombia during Summer 2014…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks proposals that investigate leading edge approaches to enable revolutionary…
The Women in Bio Atlanta Chapter is launching MAPs or (Mentors, Advisors, Peers) Groups. MAPs are informal meetings of 6-10 women who have an…
Congratulations to Bioinformatics PhD student, Alli Gombolay, whose ARCS Scholar Award was renewed for 2021-2022. The ARCS…
Congratulations to Shashwat Deepali Nagar (PhD) and Ajay Bharadwaj (MS) who were recognized as the 2021 Outstanding Students…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
6/06/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
6/06/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
6/06/2021
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…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…