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Facundo Fernandez, professor and associate chair in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was recently featured in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. As the latest subject of the journal’s “Faces of Mass Spectrometry” series, Fernandez discusses his personal and scientific history, from his upbringing in Argentina to the pivotal role of his postdoctoral mentor to his interest in the fundamentals and applications of mass spectrometry.
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences assistant professor Frances Rivera-Hernández will receive $700,000 over the next four years to study an ancient lake bed in Antarctica — with the hope of using samples and data to help NASA determine future landing sites for Mars missions.
Georgia Tech researchers have created a data visualization plus sonification approach lets users explore data with visual, auditory, or both modalities.
Researchers are working to develop simple, low-cost, legged robots capable of linking and unlinking to accomplish tasks, such as gap traversal, stair climbing, and object transport over uneven terrains.
Georgia Tech’s Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI) merges disciplines, aggressively recruiting microbiologist ‘superstars’ to take back the high ground from antibiotic-resistant pathogens and emerging diseases — and to harness microbes to provide new medicines, cleaner environments, and solutions to the challenges of climate change.
A team of interdisciplinary scientists from Georgia Tech led by Brian Hammer has found a previously unknown tool in the arsenal of cholera bacterium — a toxin that impairs a cell’s overall membrane and looks like none described prior.
