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Recent News


2025 Ramblin' Royalty

Fourth-year biology major Lianna Homrich is among the five students named 2025 Ramblin' Royalty. This recognition celebrates students who embody Georgia Tech’s motto, Progress and Service.



Digital Dissection: Anatomage Table Brings Anatomy to Life

Georgia Tech’s new Anatomage Table blends traditional dissection with digital technology — preparing students for the future of medicine.



Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release

Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.



The Perfect Fit: Crafting a Career at the Intersection of Making, Helping, and Human Mobility

Kinsey Herrin’s lifelong passion for working with her hands guided her career path, ultimately leading her to become a prosthetist/orthotist and principal researcher at Georgia Tech.


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Upcoming Events

Nov
03
2025
INNSight Forum: Presented by McCamish Parkinson's Disease Innovation Program
"Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Dopamine Shape Early Learning" – Joshua Dudman, Janelia Research Campus
Nov
06
2025
The School of Biological Sciences Fall 2025 Seminar Series presents Dr. Meghan Duffy
Title: TBD
Nov
07
2025
Fossil Friday
Join the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab for Fossil Fridays! Become a fossil hunter and help discover how vertebrate communities have changed through time.
Nov
11
2025
AI4Science Seminar
The AI4Science Center hosts a seminar highlighting innovative applications of machine learning in the natural sciences, featuring guest speaker Robert Jernigan, Professor at Iowa State University and Director of the Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Bio
Nov
12
2025
What's New in Atlanta Neuroscience?
Want to connect with ATL neuroscience peers and faculty and practice your poster for SfN? Join Us!
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Experts in the News

‘Pirate Lizards’ Can Get Around on 3 Legs

Scientists have long thought that a lizard losing a leg should be a death sentence. New evidence seems to overturn this assumption, showing that some lizards can not only survive, but even thrive after losing one or more limbs.James Stroud, an evolutionary biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has spent years catching lizards in the wild to study how they evolve. He and his colleagues long thought that even the smallest difference in the length of a lizard’s leg could affect its ability to run from predators and chase their prey. Losing an entire limb seemed much more severe.However, every now and then he and his colleagues would observe something odd. “We’ll find a lizard completely missing its leg, and it seems fine,” Dr. Stroud said. He casually calls them “three-legged pirate lizards.”

The New York Times | 2025-10-21T00:00:00-04:00

3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild

James T. Stroud, assistant professor in the School of Biological Sciences, coauthored an article published in The Conversation detailing research which documents exceptional cases of lizards — survivors of limb damage or loss — that defy expectations about how natural selection works.

The Conversation | 2025-10-13T00:00:00-04:00

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Spotlight on Research Centers

  • CMDI Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection The Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection (CMDI) is an interdisciplinary collaboration at Georgia Tech seeking to understand the ecology, interactions and evolution of microbes. We are focused on the understanding microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions that are relevant to human health, ecosystem dynamics and sustainability.
  • CSSB Center for the Study of Systems Biology Recognized by most experts in the field as the future of biology, Systems Biology seeks to understand how complex living systems interact with each other so that we can diagnose and treat disorders such as cancer.
  • ACE Aquatic Chemical Ecology Center At Georgia Tech we have organized a diverse group of ecologists, chemists, sensory biologists, engineers, and quantitative modelers, to focus on chemical cues that many organisms use for to make basic survival decisions.
  • CBID Center for Biologically Inspired Design CBID is an interdisciplinary center for research and development of design solutions that occur in biological processes.
  • CIG Center for Integrative Genomics The Center for Integrative Genomics at Georgia Tech is a virtual affiliation of researchers interested in the application of genome-wide research strategies to diverse biological themes.
  • ICRC Integrated Cancer Research Center The mission of the ICRC is to facilitate integration of the diversity of technological, computational, scientific and medical expertise at Georgia Tech and partner institutions in a coordinated effort to develop improved cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.
  • NanoMAD Center for NanoMAD Our mission is to develop new technologies for detecting, monitoring and controlling self-assembled macromolecular complexes at various levels, including their pathogenic consequences, biological roles and evolutionary origins.

 

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