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The first direct comparison of in vitro and in vivo screening techniques for identifying nanoparticles that may be used to transport therapeutic…
In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs – and offer an extraterrestrial source for…
Chemical biologists at Georgia Tech and peer institutions in the Greater Atlanta area are poised for a grand debut on April 21, 2018 – at the First…
Got a sore throat? The doctor may write a quick prescription for penicillin or amoxicillin, and with the stroke of a pen, help diminish public health…
Last year, cancer biologist John McDonald made news with his lab’s development of a novel targeted therapy that eliminated ovarian tumors in limited…
Shashwat Deepali Nagar came to Georgia Tech after earning a Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT…
Advances in technology have driven the evolution of genome analysis and collaborative research forward at a rapid rate. This is particularly evident…
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating genetic disease that impairs lung function. A major consequence of the disease is establishment of chronic…
Here’s an open invitation to steal. It goes out to cancer fighters and tempts them with a new program that predicts cancer drug effectiveness via…
Genetic testing today is mainstream, marketing to consumers who want to know where in Europe they came from or what types of hereditary diseases they…
There is a genomic revolution happening across the planet, as researchers apply genome science and related technologies to advance the understanding…
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Melissa Kemp, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at…
Heart problems were much more common in the genes of our ancient ancestors than in ours today, according to a new study by geneticists at…
[Note to researchers: mRNA-protein level disparities found in metastatic ovarian cancer in more than 60% of measurements across 4,436 genes; evidence…
Adding the equivalent of a miniature tornado to the interface between electrospray ionization (ESI) and a mass spectrometer (MS) has allowed…
A new rational drug design technique that uses a powerful computer algorithm to identify molecules that target different receptor sites on key…
Genetic mitochondrial disease is present in about 1 out of every 5,000 babies, who face insurmountable odds from the moment they are born. That’s…
Exosomes, tiny vesicles smaller than red blood cells, were once thought of as molecular trash bins. And it’s true, these nanoparticles do carry off a…
What can microorganisms teach us about climate change?Plenty, because microbes respond, adapt, and evolve faster than other organisms. Scientists can…
Lisa D. Redding is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Graduate Academic Advising – Staff Award. Redding is the academic program coordinator for…
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