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Emory College physicist Daniel Weissman, who specializes in building mathematical models to better understand the rapid evolution of pathogens, has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow. The prestigious fellowship honors Weissman as among the most promising researchers working today. He plans to use the $75,000, two-year award to amplify his latest effort, to examine antibiotic resistance by building a model from a massive database of genomes from Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistically pathogenic skin bacterium. The database was constructed by Timothy Read, an infectious diseases professor at Emory University School of Medicine. “You’re talking about looking at 70,000 genomes, several million bases long, to see if there are patterns that predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance,” Weissman says. “I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity and cross-collaboration.”

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