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Recent News

Tech Promise: Second-year biology majors Giuli Capparelli Sanabria and J’Avani Stinson

Tech Promise Helps Biology Scholars Pursue Their Academic Dreams Debt-Free

Second-year biology majors Giuli Capparelli Sanabria and J’Avani Stinson are pursuing Georgia Tech degrees with fewer financial worries, thanks to the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholarship.

Tim Cope is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, where his research focuses on how movement is controlled by neuron signaling to the spinal cord in mammals.

Tim Cope to Direct New Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

A joint effort across the Colleges of Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, the program will educate students and advance the field of neuroscience through an interdisciplinary approach.

Unearthing Climate Solutions

Georgia Tech researchers explore how to improve the planet, one rock at a time.

From Molecules to Mind: Farzaneh Najafi Receives Multiple Awards for Cognitive Research

The School of Biological Sciences assistant professor has received several awards that will enable interdisciplinary research on the neural mechanisms of cognition.

Upcoming Events

Mar

04 to 24

2025

The School of Biological Sciences Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Dr. James Liao

Decoding Signals and Forces in Swimming Fishes: Breaking New Ground in Fluid Perception and Propulsion

Mar

2025

The School of Biological Sciences Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Dr. Akito Kawahara

Evolution of anti-bat defenses in moths: Sonar jamming, acoustic deflection, and visual lures

Mar

2025

College of Sciences Career Day with Deloitte (2 events, 2 locations)

This event is designed to connect College of Sciences students with representatives from Deloitte.

Mar

2025

The School of Biological Sciences Spring 2025 Seminar Series presents Dr. Shelley Copley

A Cheater Founds the Winning Lineages During Evolution of a Novel Metabolic Pathway

Mar

2025

Fossil Friday

Come join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab for Fossil Fridays! Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time.

Experts in the News

The American Society for Microbiology Announces New Editor in Chief

Marvin Whiteley, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, has been named the new editor in chief of mBio, an open-access journal that explores the interconnected microbial world and publishes research in microbiology and allied fields. Whiteley’s term will begin on July 1, 2025.

American Society for Microbiology | 2025-02-07T00:00:00-05:00

The lizard wars of South Florida help reveal how evolution works

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden may look serene at first glance, but beneath the resplendent orchids and majestic banyans, two invasive lizards are waging a turf war.The war started a few years ago when Cuban brown anoles, who have called South Florida home for about 100 years, came face to face for the first time with a new rival: crested anoles from Puerto Rico.As the two species, which look almost identical and occupy the same ecological niche, faced off, biologists were able to document who was winning, and more importantly, how quickly the losers were adapting to survive on new turf.A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers, including School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor James Stroud, reveals that the losing species is adapting at a rapid pace, changing their behavior, but also their bodies. This fast adaptation is altering what we know about how evolution works.(This story also appeared in Futurity and New Atlas.)

Sun Sentinel | 2024-12-01T00:00:00-05:00

Spark: College of Sciences at Georgia Tech

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Spotlight on Research Centers

CMDI Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection The Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI) is an interdisciplinary collaboration at Georgia Tech seeking to understand the ecology, interactions and evolution of microbes. We are focused on the understanding microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions that are relevant to human health, ecosystem dynamics and sustainability.
CSSB Center for the Study of Systems Biology Recognized by most experts in the field as the future of biology, Systems Biology seeks to understand how complex living systems interact with each other so that we can diagnose and treat disorders such as cancer.
ACE Aquatic Chemical Ecology Center At Georgia Tech we have organized a diverse group of ecologists, chemists, sensory biologists, engineers, and quantitative modelers, to focus on chemical cues that many organisms use for to make basic survival decisions.
CBID Center for Biologically Inspired Design CBID is an interdisciplinary center for research and development of design solutions that occur in biological processes.
CIG Center for Integrative Genomics The Center for Integrative Genomics at Georgia Tech is a virtual affiliation of researchers interested in the application of genome-wide research strategies to diverse biological themes.
ICRC Integrated Cancer Research Center The mission of the ICRC is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.
NanoMAD Center for NanoMAD Our mission is to develop new technologies for detecting, monitoring and controlling self-assembled macromolecular complexes at various levels, including their pathogenic consequences, biological roles and evolutionary origins.