Trainee Outcomes
The InQuBATE T32 at the Georgia Institute of Technology trains PhD candidates who span the biosciences, engineering, and computing to integrate computational models, data analytics, and the experimental study of molecules, cells, and populations. While our program is still quite young, we are carefully tracking the outcomes of our trainees and will be especially interested in their future career journeys! Our expectation is that InQuBATE will prepare them for impactful careers across academia and industry.
Publications and Presentations
| Year | Trainee | Accomplishment | Details |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Publication | Bingham EP, Yunker PJ. Evolution of cell differentiation: Maintenance emerges from speedy models and simple rules. Curr Biol. 2024 Sep 9;34(17):R816-R818. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Publication | Bingham EP, Ratcliff WC. A nonadaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellularity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Feb 13;121(7):e2319840121. |
| 2024 | Gabriella Chebli | Presentation (poster) | Waterborne Metabolite Biomarkers of Harmful Algal Bloom Initiation. American Society of Microbiology 2024 Meeting. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Publication | Day TC, Zamani-Dahaj SA, Bozdag GO, Burnetti AJ, Bingham EP, Conlin PL, Ratcliff WC, Yunker PJ. Morphological Entanglement in Living Systems. Phys Rev X. 2024 14:011008. |
| 2024 | Evan Rheaume | Presentation (oral) | Spatially Distributed Alternans in Human Heart Failure Patient. International Physics of Living Systems Conference 2024. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Presentation (oral) | Flows and evolution of large size. International Physics of Living Systems Conference 2024. |
| 2024 | Zachary Mobille | Conference paper and presentation | Structural bottlenecks promote temporal coding in spiking neural networks. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (2024). |
| 2024 | Maxfield Comstock | Presentation (poster) | How large flocks of birds turn: Insights from simulations. Dynamics Days 2024. |
| 2024 | Zachary Mobille | Publication | Del Rosario J, Coletta S, Kim SH, Mobille Z, Peelman K, Williams B, Otsuki AJ, Del Castillo Valerio A, Worden K, Blanpain LT, Lovell L, Choi H, Haider B. Lateral inhibition in V1 controls neural & perceptual contrast sensitivity. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jul 23:2023.11.10.566605. |
| 2024 | Evan Rheaume | Presentation (oral) | A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the ten Tusscher et al. Cardiac Model in Tissue and Comparison to Human Tissue. SIAM Annual Conference 2024. |
| 2024 | Katie MacGillivray | Presentation (oral) | Accelerating evolution of bacterial T6SS resistance during experimental evolution. ASM Microbe conference. |
| 2024 | Katie MacGillivray | Presentation (poster) | Accelerating evolution of bacterial T6SS resistance during experimental evolution. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution conference. |
| 2024 | Alfie Brownless | Presentation (poster) | SHP-1 Variants Broaden the Understanding of pH-Dependent Activities in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases. 52nd Annual meeting of the Southeastern Theoretical Chemistry Association. |
| 2024 | Katie MacGillivray | Presentation (oral) | Accelerating evolution of bacterial T6SS resistance during experimental evolution. Evolution 2024 – Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Publication | Narayanasamy N, Bingham E, Fadero T, Ozan Bozdag G, Ratcliff WC, Yunker P, Thutupalli S. Metabolically-driven flows enable exponential growth in macroscopic multicellular yeast. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jun 22:2024.06.19.599734. |
| 2024 | Alfie Brownless | Publication | Shen R, Brownless AR, Alansson N, Corbella M, Kamerlin SCL, Hengge AC. SHP-1 Variants Broaden the Understanding of pH-Dependent Activities in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases. JACS Au. 2024 Jul 17;4(8):2874-2885. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Presentation (oral) | Emergent structure enables lab-evolved multicellular organisms to overcome nutrient diffusion limits. APS March Meeting 2024. |
| 2024 | Maxfield Comstock | Presentation (oral) | Minisymposium: Waveform Relaxation Methods for Cardiac Simulation. SIAM Annual Meeting 2024. |
| 2024 | Emma Bingham | Presentation (poster) | Lab-evolved multicellular organisms exhibit flows that overcome nutrient diffusion limits. Microbial Ecology and Evolution Hubs 2024. |
| 2024 | Zachary Mobille | Publication | Mobille Z, Sikandar UB, Sponberg S, Choi H. Temporal resolution of spike coding in feedforward networks with signal convergence and divergence. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jul 11:2024.07.08.602598. |
| 2023 | Katie MacGillivray | Publication | Bravo P, Lung Ng S, MacGillivray KA, Hammer BK, Yunker PJ. Vertical growth dynamics of biofilms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Mar 14;120(11):e2214211120. |
| 2023 | Evan Rheaume | Conference paper and presentation | A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the Ten Tusscher et al. Cardiac Model in Tissue. Computing in Cardiology 2023. |
| 2023 | Nicholas Zhang | Presentation (poster) | High Throughput, Translational Dynamics in Single Cell Signaling. BMES 2023 Annual Meeting. |
| 2023 | Zachary Mobille | Presentation (oral) | Quantitative description of neuronal calcium dynamics in C. elegans thermoreception. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. |
| 2023 | Nicholas Zhang | Publication | Zhang, N. et al. Tissue Spatial Omics Dissects Organoid Biomimicry. GEN Biotechnology. 2023 2, 372–383. |
| 2023 | Katie MacGillivray | Publication | MacGillivray KA, Ng SL, Wiesenfeld S, Guest RL, Jubery T, Silhavy TJ, Ratcliff WC, Hammer BK. Trade-offs constrain adaptive pathways to the type VI secretion system survival. iScience. 2023 Oct 26;26(12):108332. |
| 2023 | Nicholas Zhang | Publication | Venkatesan M, Zhang N, Marteau B, Yajima Y, De Zarate Garcia NO, Fang Z, Hu T, Cai S, Ford A, Olszewski H, Borst A, Coskun AF. Spatial subcellular organelle networks in single cells. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 1;13(1):5374. |
| 2023 | Katie MacGillivray | Publication | Pentz JT, MacGillivray K, DuBose JG, Conlin PL, Reinhardt E, Libby E, Ratcliff WC. Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles. Elife. 2023 Oct 27;12:e84336. |
| 2023 | Nicholas Zhang | Publication | Fang Z, Ford AJ, Hu T, Zhang N, Mantalaris A, Coskun AF. Subcellular spatially resolved gene neighborhood networks in single cells. Cell Rep Methods. 2023 May 12;3(5):100476. |
| 2023 | Emma Bingham | Presentation (oral) | Evolution of exponential growth to macroscopic size: diffusion, toughness, and fluid flow. International Physics of Living Systems Conference 2023. |
| 2023 | Zachary Mobille | Publication | Mobille Z, Follmann R, Vidal-Gadea A, Rosa E Jr. Quantitative description of neuronal calcium dynamics in C. elegans’ thermoreception. Biosystems. 2023 Jan;223:104814. |
| 2023 | Maxfield Comstock | Presentation | Speeding up Cardiac Simulations with Parallel-in-Time Methods. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2023. |
| 2023 | Evan Rheaume | Presentation (oral) | A Modified Fitzhugh-Nagumo Model that Reproduces the Action Potential and Dynamics of the Ten Tusscher et al. Cardiac Model in Tissue. APS March Meeting 2023. |
| 2023 | Emma Bingham | Presentation (oral) | Lab-evolved multicellular organisms exhibit long-range flows that overcome nutrient diffusion limits. APS March Meeting 2023. |
| 2023 | Nicholas Zhang | Publication | Li D, Fang Z, Shi Q, Zhang N, Gong B, Tong W, Coskun AF, Xu J. Single-cell RNA-sequencing and subcellular spatial transcriptomics facilitate the translation of liver microphysiological systems for regulatory application. J Pharm Anal. 2023 Jul;13(7):691-693. |
| 2023 | Maxfield Comstock | Conference paper and presentation | Speeding up Cardiac Simulations with Parallel-in-Time Solvers. Computing in Cardiology 2023. |
| 2022 | Katie MacGillivray | Presentation (oral) | Directed Evolution of resistance to a bacterial Type VI Secretion System. Evolution conference. |
| 2022 | Katie MacGillivray | Presentation (oral) | Directed Evolution of resistance to a bacterial Type VI Secretion System. European Society for Evolutionary Biology conference. |
| 2022 | Zachary Mobille | Presentation (poster) | Informational dynamics and decodability in spiking neural networks with biologically motivated structure. Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) meeting. |
| 2022 | Katie MacGillivray | Publication | Day TC, Márquez-Zacarías P, Bravo P, Pokhrel AR, MacGillivray KA, Ratcliff WC, Yunker PJ. Varied solutions to multicellularity: The biophysical and evolutionary consequences of diverse intercellular bonds. Biophys Rev (Melville). 2022 Jun;3(2):021305. |
| 2022 | Maxfield Comstock | Presentation (oral) | Real-time interactive simulation of large bird flocks. Biology and Medicine through Mathematics Conference. |
