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GIFT/REAL program
Summer, 2024 This summer our lab hosted Nicole Chapman, a teacher at Tucker High School, along with her students Sophie Abuladze and Yewoinhareg Gebrehana as part of the GIFT/REAL program. This program allows high school students to gain hands on laboratory experience while exposing them to complex ideas and research. Over the course of seven weeks, Nicole and her students learned how to extract metabolites from coral polyps, culture and co-culture marine bacteria, and maintain saltwater aquaria. Nicole plans to take the techniques she learned and design lessons to expose her class to culturing bacteria from soil. |
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Jessica defends her thesis
May 23, 2024 Jessica successfully defended her thesis on characterizing the metabolome corals effected by stony coral disease. She did a great job explaining her work and showed her passion for teaching science. Congratulation Jessica! |
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Joy and Atharva win best presentation award
May 8, 2024 At the 2024 School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Spring Research Symposium, Joy won first place and Atharva won second place for best presentation. They both gave excellent presentations on their research. Atharva also won the William Emerson Best Second Year Seminar Award. |
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Eunice passes her candidacy exam
April 10, 2024 Eunice passes her candidacy exam and adds proteomics to the Garg Lab's study of Burkholderia. Well done Eunice! |
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Atharva passes his candidacy exam
February 27, 2024 Atharva passes his candidacy exam on alternative treatments to Burkholderia. Good job Atherva! |
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Nicole defends her thesis
March 18, 2024 Nikki successfully defended her thesis on chemical interactions between Burkholderia Thailandensis and host. She will begin working as an LDP for BASF. We'll miss you Nikki! |
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Dr. Garg receives the Natural Product Reports Emerging Instigator Lectureship Award
2024 This award is given to recognize outstanding early career researchers in the area of natural products. |
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Andrew's defends his thesis
July 14, 2023 Andy successfully defended his thesis on Burkholderia spp. secondary metabolites. He is the first graduate student to graduate from the Garg lab and did an amazing job. Congratulations Andy! |
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Nadine Receives Poster Award at HMURS 2022
September 26, 2022 Nadine Abrahamse, our undergraduate researcher, won Honorable Mention in the 2022 Herty Medalist Undergraduate Research Symposium (HMURS) poster presentation sharing her work with marine bacteria. This symposium is organized by the Georgia ACS chapter. |
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Andrew Receives Herbert P. Haley Fellowship
September 14, 2022 Andrew was one of six graduate students awarded the Herbert P. Haley Fellowship at Georgia Tech for his work on investigating the Burkholderia cepacia complex. The initiative recognizes significant accomplishments and outstanding academic achievements for graduate students at Georgia Tech. The full press release can be found here. Congrats, Andrew! |
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Neha Receives two Institute Teaching Awards April 19, 2022 Neha has received both the CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and the Vasser Wolley Award for Excellence in Instruction for 2022. The CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award highlights the excellent teaching and educational innovation that junior faculty bring to campus. |
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2022 Graduate Symposium Awards
April 19, 2022 Andy, Jessica, and Nikki were big winners at the 2022 Graduate Symposium. Andy received the Moody Award for his excellence in research. Jessica won 3rd place for her oral presentation on the "Dereplication of Natural Products from Coral-derived Bacteria to Enable Insights into the Pathogenic and Candidate Probiotic Strains." Nikki received the William Emerson Best Poster Award for her poster as well as the William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award for her commitment to serving the community at Georgia Tech. We are so proud of our amazing graduate students! |
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NSF CAREER Award
April 27, 2021 Neha received the NSF CAREER Award which is one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty. |
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2021 Graduate Symposium Award Winner: Nikki
April 23, 2021 Nikki was the recipient of the William Emerson Best Poster Award for her poster on the "Global analysis of metabolomic response to Burkholderia infection in in vitro mouse models" and runner-up for her talk at the Annual Graduate Symposium. |
2020 Graduate Student Award Winners: Jessica and Nikki
February 15, 2021
Jessica and Nikki were recipients of the William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for their impactful efforts as TAs in CHEM 1212K.
Jessica received an award for her outstanding poster on "Metabolomic studies of corals infected with stony coral tissue loss disease." Congratulations to our exceptional graduate students!
February 15, 2021
Jessica and Nikki were recipients of the William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for their impactful efforts as TAs in CHEM 1212K.
Jessica received an award for her outstanding poster on "Metabolomic studies of corals infected with stony coral tissue loss disease." Congratulations to our exceptional graduate students!
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ACS Infectious Diseases Publication
April 1, 2020 We are pleased to announce our new publication in ACS Infectious Diseases titled, "Differences in Cystic Fibrosis-Associated Burkholderia spp. Bacteria Metabolomes after Exposure to the Antibiotic Trimethoprim." pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00513 |
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Andrew Passes Candidacy Exam
February 5, 2020 Andy successfully passed his candidacy exam, and the Garg lab now has it's first PhD candidate! Congrats Andy! |
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MANA Conference 2019
November 15 - 17, 2019 At the Metabolomics Association of North America (MANA) Conference 2019, Olakunle presents "Characterization of Burkholderia Metabolomes Under Antibiotic Induced Stress." |
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Environmental Protection Agency South FL Initiative Award
November 12, 2019 We are excited to receive funding by EPA with Dr. Val Paul to study stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) spreading through the South Florida reef system. The grant will last two years and explore the dynamic between diseased coral and their bacterial counterparts. Read the news announcement at https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-recognizes-two-organizations-florida-receiving-430611-funding-coral-barrier-reef |
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Sandia National Laboratories Grant
October 26, 2019 We are excited to work with Dr. Steven Branda at Sandia National Labs to characterize Burkholderia thailandensis metabolomes and transcriptomes in intermediate and chronic infection models via LDRD grant spanning three years. |
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Smithsonian Institution Subaward
October 26, 2019 We are excited to work with Dr. Val Paul via subaward from EPA to study coral microbiomes |
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2020 Petit Scholar Award
October 18, 2019 Paxton Threatt, our undergraduate researcher, is awarded the 2020 Petit Scholar Award to begin research in our lab. He will investigate the metabolomic relationships between Pseudomonas and Burkholderia strains grown in mixed cultures. |
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American Society of Microbiology Paper Publication
September 2, 2019 We are happy to announce our next paper published in ASM titled "Molecular and Microbial Microenvironments in Chronically Diseased Lungs Associated with Cystic Fibrosis." https://msystems.asm.org/content/4/5/e00375-19 |
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Journal of The American Society of Mass Spectrometry Paper Publication
May 15, 2019 We recently published a new paper in JASMS describing "Mass Spectrometry-Based Integration and Expansion of the Chemical Diversity Harbored Within a Marine Sponge. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13361-019-02207-5 |