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![Farzaneh_Najafi-lab_pic.jpeg Farzaneh Najafi, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, conducting research in her lab.](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/Farzaneh_Najafi-lab_pic.jpeg?h=71976bb4&itok=ATHtx2gB)
The School of Biological Sciences assistant professor has received several awards that will enable interdisciplinary research on the neural mechanisms of cognition.
![Researchers launch a a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument to collect data. "To keep advancing, we need scientists who can determine what data we need, collect that data, and solve problems," Bracco says. (NOAA) Researchers launch a a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument to collect data. "To keep advancing, we need scientists who can determine what data we need, collect that data, and solve problems," Bracco says. (NOAA)](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/noaa-5hZJVGPG6vo-unsplash.jpg?h=bfa41935&itok=nr9-hh2y)
A Georgia Tech-led review paper recently published in Nature Reviews Physics is exploring the ways machine learning is revolutionizing the field of climate physics — and the role human scientists might play.
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Five Georgia Tech faculty members have been selected for the 2025 ACC Academic Leaders Network (ACC ALN) Fellows program.
![Lipids can be powerful tools to help deliver drugs and treatments through their interactions with proteins. (Adobe Stock) Lipids can be powerful tools to help deliver drugs and treatments through their interactions with proteins. (Adobe Stock)](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/AdobeStock_661699692.jpeg?h=8f74817f&itok=hw9Guklq)
From helping develop immunotherapies to teaching students, a new open-access database called BioDolphin is providing fresh insights on lipid-protein interactions — a critical component of biochemical research.
![Animation-for-AF2Complex-Story-V2.gif Deep learning effectively predicts antibodies targeting distinct epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (gray, center).](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/Animation-for-AF2Complex-Story-V2.gif?h=1a387e44&itok=JwVRIPho)
Researchers combine deep learning with advanced sequencing techniques to predict how antibodies interact with antigens.
![Joel Kostka Joel Kostka](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/Joel%20Kostka.jpg?h=3ec75680&itok=q5EsRMWq)
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.”
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Congratulations to QBioS PhD student, Ryan Lowhorn, who was named as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recipient for 2024!
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Congratulations to QBioS PhD Student, Zachary Mobille, who won a two-year Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Foundation award.
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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…
![Krishma Singal operates knitting machine A woman wearing glasses and short sleeve pink sweater sit nexts to a commercial knitting machine.](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/krishma%20machine%202.png?h=f2221fcc&itok=5qobpckY)
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 Fenton (center) with students Henry Chionuma, Evan Rheaume, Jimena Siles-Paredes, Casey Lee-Trimble, and Ilja Uzelac](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/Screenshot%202024-05-28%20at%209.16.20%E2%80%AFAM.png?h=b49b81d4&itok=h_h_kCxG)
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…
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This year, the first year QBioS PhD students and the InQuBATE cohort hosted their workshop on the topic, “Hands on Protein Modeling Using AlphaFold2.”…
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. …
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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…
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To determine if this passive control hypothesis was correct, a team of roboticists, physicists, and engineers led by …
![Tucker Lancaster Seminar](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/4th%20year%20Tucker_1.jpg?h=e14f4085&itok=u-8bwjLP)
The fall 2020 cohort of Quantitative Biosciences PhD students hosted a series of talks about their research.
![mCLARI_Spider.jpg Can this small robot outrun a spider? Photo Credit: Animal Inspired Movement and Robotics Lab, CU Boulder.](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/mCLARI_Spider.jpg?h=7f828699&itok=PwV_GYky)
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 Aditi Das](/sites/default/files/styles/people/public/news/AditiDas.jpeg?h=10d202d3&itok=IP-9HsdZ)
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…
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A team of Georgia Tech researchers is the first to study the relationship between fluctuations in attention and the brain network…