Latest News — The Bhamla Lab

Hossam Ismail Joins the Lab

Hossam Ismail joins the lab as a Lab tech for Frugal Science Academy

Guest UserSeptember 1, 2023

Daehyun (Joshua) Choi Joins the Lab

Daehyun (Joshua) Choi joins the lab as a postdoc

Guest UserAugust 23, 2023

Lab Seminar by Prof. Honts, Drake University

Prof.Honts from Drake University gave a lab seminar on Ca2+ triggered contractile proteins in ciliates

Guest UserAugust 18, 2023

New Paper on Conservation Tools

Lab has co-authored a new paper on Conservation Tools. Read the paper here

Guest UserAugust 18, 2023

Paper on how living systems and robots control their jumps and landing.

Victor, Sunny, and Elio co-authored a review paper in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on how living systems and robots control their jumps and landing. Read the paper here

Guest UserAugust 8, 2023

Saad visited 3M

Saad visited 3M as part of the 2023 Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA).

Guest UserAugust 8, 2023

Rajas wins the 2023 ChBE Ziegler Best Paper Award

Congratulations to Rajas for winning the 2023 ChBE Ziegler Best Paper Award for his paper with Prof. Marcus Cicerone! Read the paper

Guest UserAugust 8, 2023

Engages program hosts high school researcher

As part of the ENGAGES program, high school students Nafiysa Sessoms, Payton Bush, and Summer Clark presented their summer research at the ENGAGES 11th Annual Research Symposium. They were mentored by Bhamla Lab members, Jacob Harrison and Sunny Kumar.

Guest UserAugust 2, 2023

Emily embarks on the journey to pursue her Ph.D. at GSU

Emily, our lab manager, is advancing in her career and will begin her Ph.D. at Georgia State University in the Fall of 2023.

Guest UserJuly 27, 2023

Holden Walker won the PURA award

Congratulations to Holden Walker, an undergrad researcher and a ChBE junior for President's Undergraduate Research Award (Fall 2023). He is working on understanding the locomotive capabilities of water-walking striders. Holden is co-mentored by Johnathan O'Neil and Pankaj Rohilla.

Guest UserJuly 20, 2023

Udita Defended her Dissertation

Udita is the second PhD graduate from the Bhamla lab who has successfully defended her thesis titled "Dewatering Cellulose Nanomaterials using ultrasound"

Guest UserJune 28, 2023

Lab Lunch

Our lab at coda for June lab lunch!

Guest UserJune 24, 2023

Paper on the ultrafast motion of protozoa

Led by Carlos Floyd, we published paper a in PNAS that describes a minimal model for calcium-driven supramolecular springs that power some of life’s ultrafast single-celled motions. The paper was featured on cover.

Guest UserJune 23, 2023

Saad Bhamla is recognized as a Disruptor in Biomedical Science by Newsweek

Guest UserJune 15, 2023

Cedric attended a Molecular Evolution course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts

His objective was to amplify his proficiency in genomic and transcriptomic analysis, equipping himself to delve deeper into his investigation of single-cellular learning.

Guest UserJune 13, 2023

Saad won the CTL Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

Saad won the CTL Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. This award, offered through the joint support of the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) and BP America, provides Georgia Tech with the opportunity to highlight the excellent teaching and educational innovation that junior faculty bring to campus.

Guest UserJune 12, 2023

Rural Georgia Teacher Training workshop in Athens, GA

The Frugal Science Academy (FSA) conducted its first Frugal Synthetic Biology workshop for highschool teachers in rural Georgia. Supported by the NIH SEPA grant.

Guest UserJune 12, 2023