{"125121":{"#nid":"125121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Michael Cortez Receives a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Michael Cortez, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Joshua Weitz\u0027s Lab in the School of Biology, has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u0026nbsp; This fellowship is an award of $150,000 over two years that supports Dr. Cortez\u0027s research in the fields of mathematics and theoretical biology.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Postdoctoral research fellowships are prestigious awards that according to the NSF, \u0022provide increased flexibility for fellows in choosing postdoctoral environments that have maximal impact on their future scientific development.\u0022 Dr. Cortez\u0027s proposed research focuses on developing theory to understand the population dynamics that arise in predator-prey systems where both the predator and the prey populations are evolving. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn addition, Dr. Cortez recently received the 2011 prize for an outstanding paper in ecology theory from the Theoretical Section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) for his paper \u0022Comparing the qualitatively different effects of rapidly evolving and rapidly induced defences have on predator-prey interactions\u0022 published in the journal Ecology Letters.\u0026nbsp; That work focused on understanding how defence evolution and defence induction in response to predation have different effects on the population dynamics of predator-prey systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Michael Cortez, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Joshua Weitz\u0027s Lab in the School of Biology, has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u0026nbsp; This fellowship is an award of $150,000 over two years that supports Dr. Cortez\u0027s research in the fields of mathematics and theoretical biology.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Michael Cortez, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Joshua Weitz\u0027s Lab in the School of Biology, has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) from the National Science Foundation (NSF)."}],"uid":"27245","created_gmt":"2012-04-19 14:40:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:04","author":"Troy Hilley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"125101":{"id":"125101","type":"image","title":"Dr. Michael Cortez","body":null,"created":"1449178593","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:33","changed":"1475894749","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:49","alt":"Dr. Michael Cortez","file":{"fid":"194491","name":"mhc.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mhc_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mhc_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17859,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mhc_0.jpg?itok=D-t7zdLl"}}},"media_ids":["125101"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Biology"},{"url":"http:\/\/ecotheory.biology.gatech.edu\/mike\/","title":"Michael Cortez"},{"url":"http:\/\/ecotheory.biology.gatech.edu\/","title":"Weitz Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"31031","name":"Michael Cortez"},{"id":"31061","name":"NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship"},{"id":"31071","name":"Weitz Lab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}