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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 6, 2010
School of Biology graduate student Elena Antonova was awarded the âRita R. Colwell Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Oral Presentation" for her talk entitled âInterspecies quorum sensing signaling induces natural competence of Vibrio cholerae on chitin surfacesâ, which was presented at the "Vibrios in the Environment 2010" meeting in Biloxi Mississippi (Nov 7-12). Dr. Colwell, who served as NSF director from 1998-2004, was the keynote speaker at the meeting. Elena is a student in the Hammer lab, which studies the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae. This bacterium is responsible for the current cholera epidemic in earthquake-battered Haiti.
