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Quan Nguyen to join Bioengineering PhD program at UPenn

Quan Nguyen to join Bioengineering PhD program at UPenn

May 23, 2023 | Accomplishment

Quan Nguyen, an undergraduate Weitz Group member since 2020, just graduated with a B.S. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Quan has spent his time in the Group designing algorithms that estimate the risk scores of viral infections. This fall, Quan will be...

Jeremy Harris to Join Rose Hulman College as A Visiting Assistant Professor

Jeremy Harris to Join Rose Hulman College as A Visiting Assistant Professor

May 23, 2023 | Accomplishment

Dr. Jeremy Harris will be leaving the Weitz Group to start at the Rose Hulman College in August 2023. Dr. Harris accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathmatics.  Congratulations Jeremy on this next step in your...

Dr. Justin Meyer Visits From UCSD

Dr. Justin Meyer Visits From UCSD

Apr 22, 2023 | Miscellaneous

Dr. Justin Meyer is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution at the University of California- San Diego and head of the Meyer Lab. Dr. Meyer’s research focuses on experimental microbial ecology and evolution. Dr. Meyer...

Shashwat successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Shashwat successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Mar 28, 2023 | Accomplishment

On March 22nd, 2023, Shashwat Shivam successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Endogenous and Exogenous Control of Virus-Host Dynamics,’’ earning his Ph.D. in electrical & computer engineering. Congratulations, Shashwat! To learn more about...

Dr. Elaine Luo Visits From UNC-Charlotte

Dr. Elaine Luo Visits From UNC-Charlotte

Jan 24, 2023 | Miscellaneous

Dr. Elaine Luo is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and head of the Microbial Ecology Lab. Dr. Luo’s research aims to address how microbes impact marine ecology and carbon cycling.  Dr....

New Paper Assessing Uptake of Recent Covid-19 Bivalent Booster Published in CDC’s MMWR

New Paper Assessing Uptake of Recent Covid-19 Bivalent Booster Published in CDC’s MMWR

Jan 20, 2023 | Publication

There has been a low uptake of the new (available since early September ’22) bivalent booster COVID-19 vaccine in the USA (~15% of the population as of 10th January 2023). In this work, we set to ask the reasons why people are, or are not, electing to take the...

Quan Receives the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship

Quan Receives the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship

Sep 19, 2022 | Accomplishment

Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been selected by the Student Awards Committee of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering as the recipient of the Thomas...

The group welcomes Tapan Goel

The group welcomes Tapan Goel

Sep 19, 2022 | New group member

The group recently officially welcomed Tapan Goel, a new postdoctoral researcher. Tapan is a biophysicist broadly interested in how complex behaviors emerge in biological systems from relatively simple “inter-particle” interactions. To answer this question, Tapan uses...

Quan Accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation Program

Quan Accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation Program

Sep 7, 2022 | Accomplishment

Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) 2.0 program. Created by U.S. Congress in 2003 to “strengthen the...

The group welcomes two new Ph.D. students

The group welcomes two new Ph.D. students

Aug 25, 2022 | New group member

We are delighted to announce that the Weitz Grouprecently officially welcomed two Ph.D. students, Akash Arani and Raunak Dey. Akash is a first-year Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student in the School of Biological Sciences, while Raunak is a second-year Physics Ph.D....

Siya Xie Joins the NIH T32 InQuBATE Training Program

Siya Xie Joins the NIH T32 InQuBATE Training Program

Aug 15, 2022 | Accomplishment

Congratulations to Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student and Weitz Group member Siya Xie for joining the NIH T32 Integrative and Quantitative Biosciences Accelerated Training Environment (InQuBATE). As an affiliated scholar, Siya will participate in InQuBATE’s...

Daniel Muratore to Join the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Muratore to Join the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow

Aug 11, 2022 | Accomplishment

Recent Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. graduate and former Weitz Group member Daniel Muratore is set to begin the Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) this September. As an Omidyar Fellow, Murature will have the opportunity to complete an up...

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The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

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