Mellon Mays Award to Erica!

Congratulations to Erica Harris. She received a MMUF Dissertation Grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. This will support her work on the rols of the monarch butterfly microbiome in disease resistance. Woot!

Another Successful Atlanta Science Festival!

takingphotos

Four hundred and eleven Petri dishes, lots of lab volunteers, hundreds of community members and one new lab camera. The Gerardo lab successfully participated in the Atlanta Science Festival Expo 2016, culturing microbes with over 400 people as part of the MYcrobes project. We will take photos of the growing microbes over the next week and post them to the MYcrobes website. Watch them grow!

congrats, Erica

by Nicole Gerardo

Congratulations to grad student Erica Harris for receiving a Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant to support her research of the gut microbiome of monarch butterflies.