Physics
Professor Eric Weeks (Emory) - I am a full professor at Emory University. I have been at Emory since January 2001.In December '00 I finished a post-doc at Harvard University, working with Prof. David Weitz. I did experimental work with colloids. I worked for a year and a half before that at the University of Pennsylvania as a post-doc, with both Dave Weitz and Prof. Arjun Yodh, but when Dave moved to Harvard, I went with him. I graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, working in the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics with Prof. Harry Swinney. My thesis work was on anomalous diffusion and atmospheric blocking experiments. I got my undergraduate degree in engineering physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ("Engineering" physics just meant I had to take drafting and Fortran.) As an undergrad, I worked three summers at Argonne National Laboratory (two of them at the ATLAS facility) , and one summer at the University of Minnesota.
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Chemistry
Professor Emily Weinert (Emory) - Emily
was introduced to craft beer at a young age, thanks to a couple of
beer snob parents and a stint living in Germany as a child. Although
she couldn’t appreciate it then and drank a fair amount of cheap
beer in college, while in grad school at the University of Maryland
she started exploring the wide variety of domestic microbrews (and
did some work on DNA alkylation chemistry). Since finishing up her
postdoc at UC Berkeley and moving to Atlanta, Emily has enjoyed
bicycling, eating, and drinking her way around a new city while
exploring all of the neighborhoods. Her research at Emory focuses on
signaling pathways in both bacteria and mammals, investigating how
organisms sense and adapt to the environment around them.
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Biology/biochemistry
Professor Donald Doyle (Georgia Tech) - As an undergraduate at Purdue University in the 1980s, Donald got yeast to make beer. As a professor at Georgia Tech since 2000, Donald spends a
lot of time trying to get yeast to do synthetic chemistry. The time between undergrad and Georgia Tech included work as an analytical chemist in New Product Development at Glaxo (now GlaxoSmithKline) in Research Triangle Park, NC. In 1990 he entered graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Chemistry to study protein stability and protein folding of the yeast protein cytochrome c in the laboratory of Professor Gary Pielak. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1996, Dr. Doyle joined the laboratories of Professor David R. Corey and Professor David J. Mangelsdorf in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, to engineer nuclear hormone receptors. These proteins are the key to his current laboratory’s approach to forcing yeast to synthesize compounds of interest to humanity. |