{"100931":{"#nid":"100931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"School of Biology Retreat Held at Unicoi State Park","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Biology held a departmental retreat at Unicoi State Park on September 11-12.  123 members of the School attended, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe theme of the retreat was \u0022Biologists in Wonderland:  Shrinking or growing to ask questions at a different scale.\u0022  An important aim of the retreat, as represented by this theme, was to inspire attendees to think of questions that transcend typical boundaries of scale.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe events included a keynote address by Dr. Julia Kubanek, seminars by faculty and graduate students, and a poster session.  Hilary Smith (Snell Lab) received the Best Oral Presentation Award, and Elena Antonova (Hammer Lab) received the Best Poster Award; Drew Sieg (Kubanek Lab) and Chengwei Luo (Konstantinidis Lab) were runners up for the Best Poster Award.  In addition, graduate students Doug Rasher (Hay Lab) and Eddie Loh (Streelman Lab) were presented with the Research Excellence Award at the retreat in recognition of their strong publication records.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMany thanks to the retreat committee - Soojin Yi, Lin Jiang and Rachel Penczykowski - for organizing a successful retreat!\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The School of Biology held a departmental retreat at Unicoi State Park on September 11-12.  123 members of the School attended, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.  The theme of the retreat was \u0022Biologists in Wonderland:  Shrinking or growing to ask questions at a different scale.\u0022  An important aim of the retreat, as represented by this theme, was to inspire attendees to think of questions that transcend typical boundaries of scale.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Biology Retreat Held at Unicoi State Park"}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2010-10-14 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:09","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"100941":{"id":"100941","type":"image","title":"Eddie Loh, recipient of the Research Excellence Aw","body":null,"created":"1449178159","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:19","changed":"1475894717","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:17"},"100951":{"id":"100951","type":"image","title":"Doug Rasher, recipient of the Research Excellence","body":null,"created":"1449178159","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:29:19","changed":"1475894717","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:17"}},"media_ids":["100941","100951"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Biology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:admin@biology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact School of Biology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-3700\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["admin@biology.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}