Congratulations to Dr. Eunbi Park, who successfully defended her PhD in Bioinformatics on 4/17. Eunbi has been an integral member of the NSF-Simons Southeast Center for Mathematics & Biology, and has collaborated with mathematicians throughout her graduate career on developing new tools for analyzing organization and patterning of stem cells. Yay Eunbi!!
Congrats to Eunbi Park!
Eunbi was awarded Honorable Mention for the Petit Institute annual Suddath Award for graduate students at Georgia Tech who have demonstrated significant bio-research accomplishments while conducting biological or biochemical research at the molecular or cellular level. This award comes with a $200 cash prize. Way to go!
Eunbi presents at ICSB!
Congrats to Eunbi Park for having her abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the 2023 International Conference for Systems Biology! Eunbi represented the lab well in Hartford, CT. Way to go!
PURA travel award!
Congrats to Siya Kannan for her poster abstract acceptance to BMES as well as a GT Presidential Undergraduate Research Travel Award to offset to costs of attendance. Siya will be representing our group in Seattle at the October meeting where she will be presenting some of the agent-based simulation work underway in the NSF Cell Manufacturing Technologies Center.
Andre’s defense
Adding to our rapid succession of graduates, Dr. Dennis Norfleet II, known as “Dre” by many, defended his Bioengineering PhD dissertation on April 18th. Andre was the last trainee in the lab to participate in the NSF Science and Technology Center EBICS, and has contributed to our computational efforts with seed funding from the Marcus Center and with the NSF Cell Manufacturing Technologies Engineering Research Center. Congratulations, Andre!
Dr. Andy Raddatz!
Congrats to Andy for successfully defending his Ph.D. on April 5th! Andy was a key contributor to our NCI-funded efforts and also was a CTEng T32 fellow during his graduate career. We lose our social media guru with his departure! Congratulations on this milestone!
Dan’s PhD Defense and IBB Holiday Party
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Zhang for successfully defending his thesis, “Informing Precision Medicine Through Data-driven Modeling of Patient-Specific Therapeutic Responses in Microfluidic-based Assays”! He will be will be starting a postdoc next year at Tufts University School of Medicine. The lab also had a fantastic time celebrating another great year at the IBB holiday party afterwards!
Arina’s PhD Defense!
Arina did an amazing job defending her dissertation today, entitled: “Computational analysis methodologies for evaluating metabolism changes in iPSCs undergoing differentiation”! Congratulations Dr. Nikitina! We know you’ll do amazing things during your postdoc at UC Santa Barbara.
BioE Outstanding Advisor Award
Melissa recieved the BioE Outstanding Advisor award at this year’s graduate recruiting event! This is the second time Melissa has won this award (previously in 2012), and she will give a talk about her career journey during the annual BioE Day in May. Congratulations Melissa!
Melissa named to Endowed Professorship
Melissa has been named to the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Endowed Professorship! This professorship supports eminent teacher-scholars for a five-year term. Congratulations Melissa for this great honor! Please see the BME news link here.
Nature Communications paper published
Melissa promoted to Professor
Our very own principal investigator Dr. Melissa Kemp has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory! This is a testament to her years of hard work in research, steadfast dedication to mentorship, and unparalleled creative vision for leading the lab in ever-expanding research directions. Please see the BME news link here.
From all of us past and present members of the lab, we’d like to congratulate you on this tremendous achievement. We are privileged to work with you as an innovative scientist, and thankful to have you as an amazing mentor. Here’s to continuing to advance the field of computational systems biology!