Health and Environment Allied Leadership (HEAL) Fellows Program officially announced – apply by July 12
The Health and Environment Allied Leadership (HEAL) Fellows Program is a NEW opportunity for Georgia Tech graduate students and postdocs in any GT college who are driven to make an impact in human and environmental health. Led by Dr. Gabi Steinbach and Prof. Weitz,...
Daniel successfully defends his dissertation, earning his Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences.
On June 9th, 2022, Daniel Muratore successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Emergence of Marine Biogeochemical Dynamics Across Scales Drive by Complex Microbial and Viral Communities,’’ earning his Ph.D. in quantitative biosciences. Congratulations,...
The group welcomes Siya Xie
The group recently officially welcomed first-year Quantitative Biosciences PhD student Siya Xie. Siya is excited to begin research focusing the factors influencing the stoichiometric characteristics of marine bacteria, such as the carbon to nitrogen ratio in genome...
Esther Gallmeier to join Applied Math PhD program at Cornell
Esther Gallmeier, an undergraduate in the School of Mathematics and a Weitz Group member since fall 2021, is set to graduate tomorrow. Mentored by postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Harris, Gallmeier has spent her time in the Group conducting theoretical modeling research...
Winter school, “Quantitative Viral Dynamics Across Scales,” comes to a close
Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University hosted a winter school centered around Quantitative Viral Dynamics Across Scales. Organized by Prof. Weitz, the school ran for one week (March 21-25, 2022) in Paris, France, and aimed to “bring thought leaders in...
The group welcomes Jeremy Seurat
Dr. Jeremy Seurat joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Seurat joins us from the Steinbach joins us from the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, or the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, where he completed is Ph.D....
Paper on the effectiveness of Georgia Tech’s Covid-19 surveillance testing program published in Epidemiology
In early 2020, members of the Weitz Group were part of a dedicated team of Georgia Tech researchers, engineers, campus leaders, and staff members working to establish Georgia Tech’s surveillance testing program. The goal of the program was to use testing to...
New paper published in Ecology Letters
Look for our new paper out in Ecology Letters, titled “Leapfrog dynamics in phage-bacteria coevolution revealed by joint analysis of cross-infection phenotypes and whole genome sequencing.” This work is was done in collaboration with researchers from the...
New paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution
In collaboration with 13 other institutions, new work investigating changes in microbial metabolism with the diel cycle has been published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Led by Prof. Weitz, group members Daniel Muratore, who served as one of three co-first...
The group welcomes Gabi Steinbach
Dr. Gabi Steinbach joins our group as the new Scientific Project Coordinator and Data Communications Specialist. Steinbach joins us from her former position as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. We are also excited for our former...
Ashley successfully defends her dissertation, earning her Ph.D. in Physics.
On November 18th, 2021, Ashley Coenen successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Inferring ecological interactions from dynamics in phage-bacteria communities,’’ earning her Ph.D. in physics. To learn more about Ashley’s dissertation, read the...
Graduate student feature: Marian Dominguez-Mirazo
Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student Marian Dominguez-Mirazo successfully defended her thesis proposal on October 19th, 2021. We are delighted to feature Marian to commemorate her successful defense and progression to Ph.D. candidate. Originally hailing from Iguala,...
