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There are times when John McDonald, emeritus professor in the School of Biological Sciences and founding director of Georgia Tech’s Integrated…
Across the planet, many people are living better and longer, as humans continue to experience a substantial overall decrease in mortality.…
Proteins have been around a lot longer than we have – as building blocks of biological evolution, our existence depends on them. And now, researchers…
Ryan Lawler realized early on in her academic career that a scientist with a great idea can potentially change the world.“But I didn’t realize the…
Most biological research is grounded in DNA sequencing, a way to determine the order of organic molecules in DNA. The process is typically conducted…
John McDonald, emeritus professor in the School of Biological Sciences and founding director of Georgia Tech’s Integrated Cancer Research Center, has…
Though it is a cornerstone of virtually every process that occurs in living organisms, the proper folding and transport of biological proteins is a…
Thanks to better diagnostics, therapeutics, and care, the overall cancer mortality rate has plummeted in the past 20 years. But cancer survival…
Salt marshes cover much of the state of Georgia’s coast and perform key "ecosystem services” for people. They clean the water, protect coastlines…
Microorganisms are highly abundant in the surface ocean, reaching densities exceeding a billion organisms per liter. Collectively responsible for…
Six Georgia Tech faculty members were named IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2022. They are Ghassan AlRegib, Bonnie Ferri, Arijit Raychowdhury…
Cancer chemotherapy has undergone a paradigm shift in recent years with traditional treatments like broad-spectrum cytotoxic agents being…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $2 million federal grant to create tools that will…
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a concept that would make Martian rocket fuel, on Mars, that could be used to…
Today, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic advancements made by research scientists and engineers are driving more targeted…
The symptoms and side effects of Covid-19 are scattered across a diagnostic spectrum. Some patients are asymptomatic or experience a mild immune…
The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) appointed 12 Georgia Tech faculty members to Regents Professors and Regents Researchers…
Facundo Fernandez, professor and associate chair in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was recently featured in the Journal of the American…
Vibrio cholerae, the pathogenic bacterium that causes cholera, has killed millions worldwide, and is still found in countries where infrastructure…
Student News
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
On May 7, 2018, Cai Huang defended his PhD thesis,"k-mer based data structures and heuristics for microbes and cancer."…
5/05/2018