Two Postdocs Win Excellence In Research Grants

Rebecca Donegan and María Coronel
Jan 15, 2021 - Atlanta, GA
María Coronel and Rebecca Donegan helping to improve the odds against disease with assist Beckman Coulter Foundation and Dasher Endowment

Biochemistry Postdoctoral Researcher Wins Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award for Early Career Scientists

Aug 03, 2021 - Atlanta, GA
Rebecca Donegan will use the grant to find out more about nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), a pathogen that causes lung infections

Georgia Tech ECE Ph.D.s and Postdocs Accept Faculty Positions around the World

New Engineering Faculty Members, All Hailing from Georgia Tech ECE. Top row (l-r): Maad Alowaifeer, Bahar Asgari, Ningyuan Cao, Zackory Erickson, and Yan Fang. Bottom row (l-r): Min-gu Kim, Jingfei Liu, Oluwaseun Sangodoyin, Wonbo Shim, and Jong-Hyeok Yoon.
Sep 21, 2021 - Atlanta, GA
Ten recently minted Georgia Tech ECE Ph.D. graduates and postdoctoral fellows/associates have been hired into faculty positions around the world, despite a difficult and challenging job market.

Periodontitis Bacteria Love Colon and Dirt Microbes

Bacteria behind acute periodontitis. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans most often lives peacefully in the mouth until circumstances lead it to become infectious. It forms flower-like colonies, here under a microscope sporting a colorful stain added by a researcher. Aa is gram-negative. Credit: Derren Ready (2012) CIL:38942, CIL. Dataset. https://doi.org/doi:10.7295/W9CIL38942 Creative Commons license
Sep 09, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
Mythbuster: Ideas that bacterial collaborations within microbiomes are generous and exclusive appear to be quite wrong.

Impact of Warming on Peatlands

Jun 12, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
More methane is released than carbon dioxide; microbial diversity declines.

When Sand-Slithering Snakes Behave Like Light Waves

Georgia Tech undergraduate student Lillian Chen demonstrates how she and colleague Alex Hubbard studied snakes as they moved through an arena covered with shag carpet to mimic sand. (Photo: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)
Feb 25, 2019 - Atlanta, GA
A new study shows how the motion of snakes moving across a sandy surface can be affected by obstacles.

Swapping Bacteria May Help ‘Nemo’ Fish Cohabitate with Fish-Killing Anemones

A clownfish peers out of an anemone in a tank at Georgia Aquarium. Anemones usually sting, kill and eat fish, but not clownfish. Georgia Tech researchers found that the microbial colonies in the slime covering clownfish shifted markedly when the nested in an anemone. Could the microbes be putting out chemical messengers that pacify the fish killer? Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield
Dec 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Why the fish-killing anemone spares the clownfish is a scientific mystery that Georgia Tech marine microbiologists are now tackling in fish mucus.

Synthetic Organelle Shows How Tiny Puddle-Organs in our Cells Work

In a vile three watery solutions phase separate into three layers. In membraneless organelles, chemical reactions occur at the interfaces of such layers, processing a reactant step-by-step and moving the reaction product from one layer to the next. Credit: Georgia Tech / Rob Felt
Sep 20, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Just tiny puddles. That's what some of our cells' organelles are, and this synthetic organelle, engineered in the lab, shows how they can work.

New Chip Measures Multiple Cellular Responses to Speed Drug Discovery

CMOS multi-modal cellular interface array chip in operation in a standard biology lab.
Oct 24, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
Nano-electric technology may improve the drug development process.

Tiny Bacteria do a Big Job for Huge Fish Tank

Georgia Aquarium life support experts (like Matthew Regensburger, left) wanted to know which bacteria were removing nitrates from the water of Ocean Voyager, the largest indoor oceanic aquarium in the US. Georgia Tech marine biochemists (Andrew Burns, center, and Zoe Pratte, right) discovered very natural bacterial colonies at work.
Oct 31, 2018 - Atlanta, GA
How natural can the seawater in a large inland aquarium be? New study at Georgia Aquarium gives scientists a good sign
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