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Researchers Jeffrey Skolnick and Mu Gao at the Engineered Biosystems Building at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

In a new paper published in eLife, School of Biological Sciences and School of Computer Science researchers show how AF2Complex, a deep learning tool designed to predict the physical interactions of proteins, is lending new insights into protein synthesis and transport — and paving the way to computationally expedite biology research as a whole.

Rachel Kuske

School of Mathematics Professor Rachel Kuske has been named board chair for Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University, strengthening a long-standing partnership between Georgia Tech and a top mathematics lab for numbers-crunching researchers.

 

Graphene chip on fingertip

Regents’ Professor Walter de Heer has taken a critical step in the case for a successor to silicon, working with collaborators to develop a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms. The technology is compatible with conventional microelectronics manufacturing, and the new research, published in Nature Communications, shows the team may have also discovered a new quasiparticle. 

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Svetlana Jitomirskaya (Credit: Monica Almeida for Quanta Magazine)

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a prize-winning mathematician, joins Georgia Tech as the inaugural Hubbard Chair Professor in the School of Mathematics. She is among more than 20 new mathematics faculty members for the 2022-2023 school year.