{"614163":{"#nid":"614163","#data":{"type":"news","title":"QBioS Awards Four PhD Candidates Cross-College Catalysis Research Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their Strategic Plan Advisory Group (GT-SPAG) Award, the Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. program announced a call for spring 2019 GRA funding to support QBioS student research that spans students\u0026rsquo; dissertation research and interdisciplinary collaboration with a faculty member from the College of Engineering or College of Computing.\u0026nbsp; The intent is to broaden the preparation for graduate trainees, enhance opportunities for catalyzing new interdisciplinary research, and facilitate increased cross-College collaborations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe are pleased to announce the student winners of these GRA funds:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EShlomi Cohen\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ENolan English\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlexander Bo Lee\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESeyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShlomi Cohen is a 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E year QBioS student from the School of Physics, who is co-advised by Professor Jennifer Curtis (School of Physics) and Professor Shuyi Nie (School of Biological Sciences).\u0026nbsp; Shlomi will be collaborating with Professor Denis Tsygankov from Biomedical Engineering.\u0026nbsp; His research project is entitled, \u0026ldquo;Competitive binding in the control of cell polarity during neural crest migration.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNolan English is a 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E year QBioS student in the School of Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp; His primary research advisor is Professor Matthew Torres, also in Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp; His proposal, \u0026ldquo;From Sequence to Significance: Machine learning for functional prioritization of Post Translational Modifications,\u0026rdquo; is a collaboration with Professor Christopher Rozell from Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAlexander Bo Lee, a 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E year QBioS student in the School of Biological Sciences, will be studying, \u0026ldquo;The Fluid Dynamics of Underwater Sniffing.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Bo\u0026rsquo;s primary research advisor is Professor David Hu (Biological Sciences\/Mechanical Engineering) and they will be collaborating with Professor Alexander Alexeev from Mechanical Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFinally, Seyed Alireza Zamani-Dahaj, a 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E year QBioS student from home School of Physics, has proposed a project called, \u0026ldquo;Evolution of macroscopic size in nascent multicellular organisms.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Ali is primarily advised by Professor Peter Yunker from the School of Physics joint with Professor Will Ratcliff in Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp; His collaborator for this project is Professor Eva Dyer from the School of Biomedical Engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe QBioS SPAG selection committee comprised Joshua S. Weitz (Chair, Biol Sci), Hang Lu (ChBE), Patrick McGrath (Biol Sci), Haesun Park (CSE), Peng Qiu (BME), and Soojin Yi (Biol Sci).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As part of their Strategic Plan Advisory Group (GT-SPAG) Award, the QBioS Ph.D. program announced a call for spring 2019 GRA funding to support QBioS student research that spans students\u2019 dissertation research and interdisciplinary collaboration."}],"uid":"27286","created_gmt":"2018-11-12 19:22:27","changed_gmt":"2018-11-12 19:35:38","author":"Lisa Redding","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614161":{"id":"614161","type":"image","title":"SPAG GRA Winners, Spring 2019","body":null,"created":"1542050091","gmt_created":"2018-11-12 19:14:51","changed":"1542050091","gmt_changed":"2018-11-12 19:14:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233821","name":"QBioS-SPAG Group.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/QBioS-SPAG%20Group.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/QBioS-SPAG%20Group.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1711726,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/QBioS-SPAG%20Group.png?itok=K-SQ5h0Q"}}},"media_ids":["614161"],"groups":[{"id":"562111","name":"QBioS"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"138191","name":"go-qbios"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Redding, Academic Program Coordinator\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.redding@biosci.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}