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Joel Kostka

Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers selected as 2024 AGU Fellows for “significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences.”  

Ryan Lowhorn Headshot

Congratulations to QBioS PhD student, Ryan Lowhorn, who was named as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipient for 2024! 

Zachary Mobille

Congratulations to QBioS PhD Student, Zachary Mobille, who won a two-year Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Foundation award.

Annalisa Bracco

Annalisa Bracco, professor of ocean and climate dynamics, is analyzing how biological connections between coral reefs — sometimes extending over great distances — may help them recover from heat stress.
Microscopic image of biofilm on rock, Image Credit: NASA

A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Physics has revealed that geometry influences biofilm growth more than anything else, including the rate at which cells can reproduce. The research shows that the fitness of a biofilm is…

A woman wearing glasses and short sleeve pink sweater sit nexts to a commercial knitting machine.

The team used experiments and simulations to quantify and predict how knit fabric response can be programmed. By establishing a mathematical theory of knitted materials, the researchers hope that knitting — and textiles in general — can be…

Fenton (center) with students Henry Chionuma, Evan Rheaume, Jimena Siles-Paredes, Casey Lee-Trimble, and Ilja Uzelac

The award recognizes “honors a scientist or clinician who has made a significant and unique contribution to the field of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology," and recognizes Fenton's groundbreaking research, which uses physics to better…

2024 Workshop Organizers

This year, the first year QBioS PhD students and the InQuBATE cohort hosted their workshop on the topic, “Hands on Protein Modeling Using AlphaFold2.”…

Emma Bingham Headshot

Congratulations to QBioS student, Emma Bingham, who received the Bonnie B. and Charles K. Rice Jr. Fellowship for outstanding graduate students in the School of Physics. The fellowship provides $5000 in funding. …

Four people walking across a salt marsh

Understanding how salt marsh grass stays healthy is of crucial ecological importance, and studying the ways bacteria interact with these plants is key. Thanks to recent advances in genomic technology, Georgia Tech biologists have begun to reveal…

Worm research robot

To determine if this passive control hypothesis was correct, a team of roboticists, physicists, and engineers led by …

Tucker Lancaster Seminar

The fall 2020 cohort of Quantitative Biosciences PhD students hosted a series of talks about their research. 

Can this small robot outrun a spider? Photo Credit: Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Lab, CU Boulder.

Georgia Tech Researcher Simon Sponberg collaborates to ask why robotic advancements have yet to outpace animals — and look at what we can learn from biology to engineer new robotic designs.

Aditi Das

The new technique can be used to study the dynamics of other biomolecules, breaking free of constraints that have limited microscopy to still images of fixed molecules. “This is the first time we are looking at a protein on an individual scale…

Photo credit: Paul Skorupskas, unsplash.com

A team of Georgia Tech researchers is the first to study the relationship between fluctuations in attention and the brain network…

(Left to Right) - Luis Felipe Cedeno Perez, Shu Gong, Ben Doshna, Jianfeng Lin, Tre Thomas, Kseniia Shilova

The Quantitative Biosciences graduate program is thrilled to introduce this year’s class of first-year PhD students. These students are currently busy with two rotations this semester, as well as planning the 2024 Hands…

Simon Sponberg

NSF has awarded the interdisciplinary team six years of funding to support the Integrative Movement Sciences Institute. The Institute, which includes a Georgia Tech contingent of researchers led by Co-PI…

An underwater photo of several sea cucumbers and fish surrounding coral.

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that sea cucumbers — sediment-eating organisms that function like autonomous vacuum cleaners of the ocean floor — play an enormous…

A human eye

Georgia Tech chemists are exploring the behavior of a complex protein associated with glaucoma — characterizing one of the largest amyloid-forming proteins to date. The study could lead to more treatment and…

Neha Garg

The Natural Products Reports Lectureship recognizes Garg’s outstanding research in the field of natural products: biological…