Melissa, Ramya, and Saif road tripped to Hilton Head, SC for the 2025 M-CELS Symposium. Melissa gave a talk on the tools the Kemp lab has developed for evaluating multicellular organization and patterning. Ramya presented a poster on her agent-based modeling of infected lung environments and Saif presented a poster on his characterization and modeling of hypoxic cores in differentiating iPSC organoids. It was a fantastic and memorable conference!
Voit & Kemp textbook is released!
It’s been a long time coming, but the 3rd edition of A First Course in Systems Biology is now in print! The book is available at discount from the publisher and also for purchase on Amazon. This edition has lots of great new material including an introduction to agent-based and multiscale modeling, a deeper account of biological design principles and the optimization of metabolic flux distributions. We also discuss current topics of synthetic biology, personalized medicine and virtual clinical trials. I’m excited to use this text in BMED 3520 next fall!
Newly minted PhD!
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.