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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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Eric GaucherIt's called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), and it's a way for Georgia Tech researcher Eric Gaucher to recreate ancient genetic material in his lab, and then observe how it evolves when spliced into modern-day variants. ASR has been around since the 1990s, but in recent years Gaucher and colleagues have been working on ways they might be able to use ancient genes to synthesize better disease-fighting proteins. Gaucher is an associate professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
