Congratulations to Sam Sober who just earned tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor in Biology!
Congratulations to
Robert Liu and members of his lab with this article that just came out in
Nature. Elizabeth Amadei, current post-doc in the Liu lab, is the first author. Read it
here. The Emory press release is
here.
Biology associate professor,
Jaap de Roode, wins Emory Williams Teaching Award.
The Emory Williams Teaching Award is given in recognition of a record of excellence in teaching. The designation represents the highest university honor for teaching given to a full-time faculty member. The award was established by Emory Williams, a 1932 Emory College alumnus and long-time trustee.
Biology senior
Caroline Holmes wins prestigious McMullan Award. Read more
here.
Every year the European Society for Evolutionary Biology distinguishes an outstanding young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize. The winner for 2017 is Amanda Gibson, a FIRST (Fellowships in Research and Science Teaching) postdoc in Levi Morran's lab. Congratulations, Dr. Gibson! Read more here.
New Directions in Motor Control Workshop
Emory Conference Center Hotel | May 18-19, 2017
More than 150 researchers from Emory, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, and around the country gathered at the Emory Conference Center for “New Directions in Motor Control,” a workshop organized by Dr. Sam Sober assistant professor of biology, Dr. Simon Sponberg, assistant professor of physics and biological sciences at Georgia Tech, and Dr. David Hofmann, a postdoctoral researcher in physics at Emory. The workshop focused on recent experimental and theoretical advances in our understanding of how the brain controls the body and learns complex skills. Highlights included presentations from both local faculty and keynote speakers from around the world, as well as hands-on tutorial sessions in which meeting attendees learned to implement cutting-edge computational analysis techniques. This workshop was the first major event by Emory’s Theory and Modeling of Living Systems Initiative, an interdisciplinary collaboration led by Dr. Ilya Nemenman (Professor of Biology and Physics) that seeks to cultivate and expand research that builds theoretical frameworks for understanding living systems. Major funding for the workshop was provided by the Kavli Foundation, an anonymous gift to promote theoretical physics approaches in biology, and additional funding from both Emory and Georgia Tech.
View this interesting segment from CNN that features Vincent Ciavatta (Lab Lead Instructional Specialist in Biology) teaching monks a lab course he developed. The monks are studying here for the Emory Tibet Science Initiative. There are also interviews with Biology faculty, Arri Eisen and Anthropology faculty, Carol Worthman.
"The red berries of the Brazilian peppertree – a weedy, invasive species common in Florida – contain an extract with the power to disarm dangerous antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, scientists at Emory University have discovered." Read more.
