{"667842":{"#nid":"667842","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A science news roundup with Short Wave","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENPR\u0027s Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong, hosts of the Short Wave podcast, about the top science stories of the week, including the mysteries of multicellular organisms as researched by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E program in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Ratcliff and several colleagues, including research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EOzan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, used snowflake yeast to initiate the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab. Other College of Sciences researchers involved include\u0026nbsp;Seyed Alireza Zamani Dahaj, computational biologist,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/thomas-day-december-2021\u0022\u003EThomas C. Day\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, School of Physics, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;associate professor, School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb?trk=public_profile_browsemap\u0022\u003EAnthony J. Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist; Penelope Kahn, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dung-thuy-joyce-lac-902379147\u0022\u003EDung T. Lac\u003C\/a\u003E, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlconlin\u0022\u003EPeter Conlin\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar, are all from the School of Biological Sciences.\u0026nbsp;(This segment was also run on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctpublic.org\/2023-05-18\/a-science-news-roundup-with-short-wave\u0022\u003EConnecticut Public Radio\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2023\/05\/18\/science-news-roundup-short-wave\u0022\u003EGeorgia Public Broadcasting\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENPR\u0027s Ari Shapiro talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong, hosts of the Short Wave podcast, about the top science stories of the week, including the mysteries of multicellular organisms as researched by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/will-ratcliff\u0022\u003EWilliam Ratcliff\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E program in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Ratcliff and several colleagues, including research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/gonensin-bozdag\u0022\u003EOzan Bozdag\u003C\/a\u003E, used snowflake yeast to initiate the first long-term evolution experiment aimed at evolving new kinds of multicellular organisms from single-celled ancestors in the lab. Other College of Sciences researchers involved include\u0026nbsp;Seyed Alireza Zamani Dahaj, computational biologist,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microdynamics.gatech.edu\/thomas-day-december-2021\u0022\u003EThomas C. Day\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D. candidate, School of Physics, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/peter-yunker\u0022\u003EPeter Yunker,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;associate professor, School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anthony-burnetti-a75394bb?trk=public_profile_browsemap\u0022\u003EAnthony J. Burnetti\u003C\/a\u003E, research scientist; Penelope Kahn, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dung-thuy-joyce-lac-902379147\u0022\u003EDung T. Lac\u003C\/a\u003E, research technician;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/kai-tong\u0022\u003EKai Tong\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar; and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterlconlin\u0022\u003EPeter Conlin\u003C\/a\u003E, postdoctoral scholar, are all from the School of Biological Sciences. (This segment was also run on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ctpublic.org\/2023-05-18\/a-science-news-roundup-with-short-wave\u0022\u003EConnecticut Public Radio\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2023\/05\/18\/science-news-roundup-short-wave\u0022\u003EGeorgia Public Broadcasting\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-05-19 20:23:36","changed_gmt":"2023-05-22 14:05:18","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"National Public Radio ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/18\/1176967382\/a-science-news-roundup-with-short-wave","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"190691","name":"Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Quantitative Biosciences"},{"id":"176339","name":"multicellularity"},{"id":"177585","name":"William Ratcliff"},{"id":"187821","name":"Ozan Bozdag"},{"id":"168707","name":"Peter Yunker"},{"id":"192648","name":"Seyed Alireza Zamani Dahaj"},{"id":"189055","name":"Thomas C. 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