I have started a stint as a rotating program officer at the National Science Foundation (Division of Environmental Biology, Evolutionary Processes Cluster). While I serve at NSF, I’ll be on a leave of absence from Georgia Tech, but I will visit periodically while my lab continues to operate.
Former undergraduate Maggie Boyd has accepted an offer to enter Northwestern University’s Ph.D. program in Biomedical Engineering. She will start graduate school in Fall, 2017.
Katrin Schmidt has finished her Ph.D. and crossed the Atlantic to join Team Chlamy at Georgia Tech. Technically, she’s a Research Scientist until her paperwork clears, but she has defended her dissertation on thermal adaptation mechanisms in the model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana at the University of East Anglia.
Kimberly Chen, a grad student in Greg Velicer’s lab, will be joining Team Chlamy as a NASA Astrobiology Institute postdoc at the end of summer. Kimberly’s PhD work involves small RNAs that control fruiting body development in myxobacteria, and she is broadly interested in questions related to social evolution (for example, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790314000049).
