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Each year, the Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program recognizes outstanding students who have demonstrated exemplary leadership in bioinformatics and computational biology, while integrating research and education on the use of information technologies in biology and medicine. Faculty members nominated students and an interdisciplinary committee of faculty members selected the winners.  Please join us in congratulating the following two outstanding students!

Bioinformatics Career Mentoring 2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
The Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience 

Agenda
8:00-8:15am = Arrival/Check-in
8:20-8:30am = Welcome, Professor King Jordan
8:35-9:05am = Internship Panel
9:05-9:15am = Break
9:20-9:50 = Job Search Panel
10:00am-12:00pm = Table Topics – Students to switch tables every 20 minutes
12:15pm-1:55pm = Lunch for Internship and Job Search Panelists

Table Topics:

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences
 
Erin Connolly
 
Defended her thesis:
Contributions of Immune Effector Cells to Cancer and Sex-Biased Aging
 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
10:00am Eastern
Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), Room #4029
  
Thesis advisor:
Dr. Greg Gibson  School of Biological Sciences  Georgia Institute of Technology
 

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Kenji Gerhardt

Defends his thesis:
Tools for interactive analysis of metagenomic read recruitment, sensitive detection and quantification of genes in metagenomes, and rapid, large scale genome relatedness estimation

August 12th (Monday), 2024 
2pm Eastern
Room: ES&T L1118 building
Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94881105498

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Anastasia Zhurikhina

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Jianshu Zhao

Defends his thesis:
Bioinformatic Software Development for Large-Scale Microbial Genome Analysis with Applications in Disturbance Ecology and SAR11 Species Evolution

Tuesday, July 9, 2024
3:00pm Eastern
Room: 3229 ES&T building
Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92904499229

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Benjamin Metcalf

Defends his thesis:
The Interrelationship Between Bacterial and Societal Factors Drives Pneumococcal Transmission and Disease Progression

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
2:00pm
BME Whitaker building, Room 1214

Thesis Advisor:
Dr. Sam Brown, Advisor
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Paramita Chatterjee

Defends her thesis:
Transcriptomics Investigation Of Multi-Site and Multi-Tissue Derived Cell Therapy Products In Clinical Applications for Osteoarthritis

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Eunbi Park

Defends her thesis:
Modeling emergent patterning within pluripotent colonies through Boolean canalizing functions

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
11:00 AM
Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), Room #5029
Zoom Link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/98921652004?pwd=QmxVZUNxdVgvMVhYU1BUMGs4alJ0dz09
Meeting ID: 989 2165 2004

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of Biological Sciences

Margaret Brown

Defends her thesis: