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December 08, 2007
Group Dinner

As Srijak and Amol graduated, all the group members gathered at Dr. Weitz's house. Each person prepared traditional home-style dishes.

October 03, 2007
Group trip to the Georgia Aquarium

The Aquarium is a good thing. Here is a snap of a whale shark as well as pictures of humans taking pictures of and talking about whale sharks.

September 05, 2007
Announcing Viral Workshop @ Georgia Tech

Applications from junior researchers are being considered for participation in a two-and-a-half day workshop whose objective is to change the landscape of how we model and understand viruses. A small group of scientists will discuss new theoretical and computational tools to bridge multiple spatiotemporal scales in the study of viral dynamics from phage to human pathogens. Topics will be organized around the following broad themes:

  • Within and between cell dynamics
  • Within and between host dynamics
  • From infection to evolution

    • More information on the workshop, Viral Paradigms: Molecules, Populations, Ecosystems,and Infectious Disease is available here.

    This workshop is made possible via the support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Georgia Tech's College of Sciences and the Program in Applied, Biological, and Contemporary Mathematics at Tech. Dr. Weitz is organizing the workshop along with Dr. Howie Weiss (Georgia Tech)and Dr. Rustom Antia (Emory).

    September 04, 2007
    Dr. Yuriy Mileyko joins group

    Dr. Yuriy Mileyko arrived this week from Duke University where has spent two years in the Dept. of Computer Science working with Herbert Edelsbrunner and John Harer. Dr. Mileyko is an expert in computational topology and will be working with Drs. Edelsbrunner and Harer and the Weitz group on a number of problems at the interface of biological networks, large-scale data analysis, and topology.

    September 02, 2007
    Dr. Chuck Price wins Murray F. Buell award from ESA
    We have received word that Dr. Price will soon receive the Murray F. Buell award from the Ecological Society of America. The prize is given "to a student for the outstanding oral paper presented at the ESA Annual Meeting." Chuck's work on flexible network branching models of organismal structure has recently been published in PNAS. See more about what Chuck is up to here .

    August 15, 2007
    Dr. Hao Wang joins group

    Dr. Hao Wang joins Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral scientist in the School of Mathematics where he will work with Howie Weiss. Dr. Wang is an expert in dynamical systems and will be collaborating with the Weitz group on a variety of problems related to viral dynamics and evolution.

    January 01, 2007
    Dr. Weitz receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface

    The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has named Joshua S. Weitz one of the 12 recipients of a Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI).CASI awardees are trained in the physical/computational sciences and work at the interface of the physical & biological sciences. The award provides 5 years to support postdoctoral training and early faculty research. Dr. Weitz plans to work on the evolutionary ecology of bacterial viruses, continuing work he began as a postdoc at Princeton University.