![Deep sea microbe collector](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/collector_dives.jpg?itok=ma0o2MzD)
While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.
![C. elegans lab strains Patrick McGrath](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/mcgrath_n2.lsj2_.jpg?itok=jAbSHnLl)
Do genetic regulators guide survival strategies in hard times? A tiny mutation in a roundworm says they may well.
![School of Biological Sciences logo again](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/logo_3.jpg?itok=0WpdLGBL)
Effective July 1, the Georgia Tech College of Sciences has a new unit focused on the life sciences — the School of Biological Sciences.
![Ph.D. Biology student Xiaoxu Sun creates an oil spill on the beach in a paint tray. The activity explains how oil is transported to the beach and the potential impacts of the oil to beach animals and ecosystems. Photo by Joel Kostka/Georgia Tech](https://biosciences.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/oiled_beach.png?itok=0IZ_BksE)
School of Biology’s Joel Kostka, students engaged fifth-graders in oils spills, oil-eating bacteria.