Elio Challita (Elio Challita, PhD 2023, Saad Bhamla) is the second person from Georgia Tech ever to be named a Fellow of the Schmidt Science Fellows program, which provides a $110,000 stipend per year to postdoctoral scholars to solve the world’s most pressing issues.

Congratulations to the 2024 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows! We’re eager to see how you all approach problems anew, share insights with each other and the world and, we hope, go on to develop solutions to some of humanity's most pressing challenges. schmidtsciencefellows.org

Thank you Saad for all your support!!

Thank you to all who have supported me along the way Saad Bhamla Georgia Tech College of Engineering GT_BioE Georgia Tech, family and friends!

Amazing achievement by former Ph.D. Dr. Elio Challita !! What a well deserved honor!! Proud PI moment.

'If you’re fascinated by the solar eclipse, the cicadas are weirder and bigger,' said Georgia Tech biophysicist Saad Bhamla. Get ready for a very loud cicada-geddon symphony newsnationnow.com/weather/cicada…

What are some of the things that drive scientists to discover more about the world around us? Find out what motivated Saad Bhamla to study insects and other organisms in this episode of @DrBiology’s Ask A Biologist.

Listen now: buff.ly/3Q7Z3pd

Our ongoing research at Saad Bhamla with Nithil Nagappan and Jacob S. Harrison on Rhagovelia water-walking insects was featured on American Physical Society news. Trying to understand why this macro-scale insect moves in a curious run and tumble-like motion like E-coli.
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In the latest AAB #podcast - Dive into the genius of nature with Saad Bhamla Saad Bhamla. Discover how a cicada's jet pee and tangled worms could give us clues to solve other challenges. askabiologist.asu.edu/frugal-science ASU School of Life Sciences Georgia Tech #STEMeducation

From Leith’s amazing talk! JustACTIONS Rice360

Excited to share our latest drone, the Hopcopter, which synergizes hopping and flying for unmatched agility and efficiency! 🤖🚀🦿

Read the full paper in Science Robotics: scim.ag/6z4

#robotics #hybrid #locomotion #quadcopter #hopping #drone

Wow wow wow!! 'liquid amoebas' -- is like living drops merging..

An advanced stage of symbiosis between a nitrogen-fixing bacterium and an alga is thought to capture the formation of a new type of organelle—a 'nitroplast'

#science #biology #symbiosis #evolution

Alright everybody, what will undoubtedly forever be the lab's strangest discovery is now out in Nature. It's a protein that evolved to self-assemble into a Sierpinski fractal. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n

more talks like this! 👇 Georgia Tech is hiring rockstar faculty Ben Freeman

Love the work Saad Bhamla is carrying out!

Worm blobs with Harry 👇👇

Massimo Go Saad Bhamla , go!

Worms

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'Beading is the new jamming'. Mixing threads 🧵 and beads 🧿 yields materials with intriguing mechanical properties. They can be soft as textiles 👕 and hard as rock ⛰️. More on that:
arxiv.org/abs/2404.04227
by Lauren Dreier, Trevor et al.