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Georgia Tech’s Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection receives nearly $1.5 million in grants to study bacterial defenses and communications — how they use them to join multicellular groups while protecting themselves from threats.
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With goals to boost science, engineering, and computing Ph.D. researchers from underserved populations, UCEM grows in 2023 to include students from Schools of Biological Sciences, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.
![UCEM Fellows (clockwise from top left) Sarah E. Gonzalez, Danielle Grau, Sierra Knavel, Tony Lemos, Autumn Peterson.png](https://d7.biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/hg/ucem_fellows_clockwise_from_top_left_sarah_e._gonzalez_danielle_grau_sierra_knavel_tony_lemos_autumn_peterson.png?itok=4T4GfijC)
With goals to boost science, engineering, and computing Ph.D. researchers from underserved populations, UCEM grows in 2023 to include students from Schools of Biological Sciences, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics.
![Electron microscope image of bacteria (Photo Janice Carr Wikimedia Commons).jpeg](https://d7.biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/hg/electron_microscope_image_of_bacteria_photo_janice_carr_wikimedia_commons.jpeg?itok=JCqTfzGf)
Georgia Tech’s Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection receives nearly $1.5 million in grants to study bacterial defenses and communications — how they use them to join multicellular groups while protecting themselves from threats.