{"68543":{"#nid":"68543","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Mark Styczynski Receives Young Faculty Award from DARPA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/styczynski.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Styczynski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) at Georgia Tech, has received a 2011 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/Opportunities\/Universities\/Young_Faculty.aspx\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDARPA YFA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E) for his research on the regulatory roles of metabolites, the small molecule building blocks necessary for all cellular functions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EDARPA presents the Young Faculty Award to outstanding junior faculty whose research will enable revolutionary advances in the areas of the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The YFA program will fund Dr. Styczynski\u2019s research through 2013.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Styczynski\u2019s work involves identifying functional interactions between metabolites and proteins efficiently and accurately from among millions of candidate interactions. Using multiple high-throughput techniques, he determines which metabolite-protein interactions have a regulatory role. This process may help identify the best candidates for use in pharmacological therapeutics or for engineering cells to perform novel, useful functions.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cMetabolites are some of the most direct, real-time readouts of cellular state that researchers can assay,\u201d says Dr. Styczynski.\u0026nbsp;\u201cBut they also play a significant regulatory role which is only beginning to be understood on a large scale.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUsing yeast and mammalian model systems, Dr. Styczynski\u2019s lab has already made strides toward identifying disease biomarkers, especially those related to the development of cancer, and discovering more efficient methods for engineering biofuels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u201cWe use yeast in much of our research because they are easy to work with and are industrially relevant, but still mimic the metabolism seen in some human cells,\u201d says Dr. Styczynski. \u201cOur research is a combination of engineering, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry. We take a systems biology approach to understanding and engineering biotechnologically and biomedically relevant organisms.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPotential applications of Dr. Styczynski\u2019s research fall into the division of DARPA known as the Defense Sciences Office (DSO), which focuses on developing technologies that will radically transform battlefield medical care. By cataloging metabolite-protein interactions, his research may lead to the development of a self-regulating drug for soldiers in the field that shuts itself down when no longer needed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Styczynski received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2009 after a postdoctoral appointment at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBroad Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a world-renowned genomic medicine research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/styczynski.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Styczynski\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) at Georgia Tech, has received a 2011 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/Opportunities\/Universities\/Young_Faculty.aspx\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDARPA YFA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E) for his research on the regulatory roles of metabolites, the small molecule building blocks necessary for all cellular functions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Mark Styczynski Receives Young Faculty Award from DARPA"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2011-06-24 20:07:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:37","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68544":{"id":"68544","type":"image","title":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894594","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:14","alt":"Dr. Mark Styczynski","file":{"fid":"192600","name":"styczynski.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1311463,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/styczynski_2.jpg?itok=SHUxP8YY"}}},"media_ids":["68544"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/","title":"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/styczynski.php","title":"Dr. Mark Styczynski"}],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"560","name":"chemical engineering"},{"id":"690","name":"darpa"},{"id":"13511","name":"faculty award"},{"id":"13510","name":"Mark Styczynski"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie G. 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