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!
by Nicole Gerardo
Congratulations to former grad student Nelle Couret, who just received a Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology at the University of Rhode Island. Excitingly, the position will transition into a tenure track faculty position at URI!
by Nicole Gerardo
Congratulations to grad student Wen-Hao Tan for being selected as one of Emory’s nominees for the HHMI International Student Research Fellowship.
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.
by Nicole Gerardo
I recently received a link to a story about the American Society of Microbiology’s first agar art contest. The art creations are amazing. I think I have some new ideas for our next Art-Science Study System Secret Santa and ice cream Social (ASSSSSS).
Former postdoc Lynn Griffin will be facilitating an initiative at UC Santa Barbara to help advanced students assist students taking introductory biology.
Welcome to Erika, a new FIRST postdoctoral fellow in our lab. Erika joins the lab with a background in symbiosis, having working on coral-algal symbioses in the lab of Monica Medina. She is particularly interested in how environmental context influences symbioses, and has done work on host and symbiont fitness.
Congratulations to Gerardo Lab seniors Itai Doron, Greg Fricker, and Brandon Smith (Brandon is in the center of the below photo from Biology graduation party). 
Congratulations to Greg Fricker, recently graduated Gerardo Lab undergrad, for winning the Darrell Stokes Award. The Stokes award recognizes an Emory University major in biology for scholarship and service.
Erica Harris successfully passed her qualifying exam for her Ph.D. candidacy. She will be developing her research on the monarch butterfly microbiome and its role in disease. This is a collaborative project between our lab and the lab of Jaap de Roode.