congrats, grads

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). 11270424_1170970302928952_1062737146452691444_o

Greg wins Stokes award

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.

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undergrad research symposium

The Gerardo lab had a strong representation at the recent Emory Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congrats to Becky, Meera, Brandon and Itai for their efforts.

Meera Patel presenting her research on plant pathogens transmitted by bugs.

Meera Patel presenting her research on plant pathogens transmitted by bugs.

dr. justine

Justine Garcia defended her Ph.D. thesis today. She gave an excellent talk and then ate pizza and cake. Overall, a pretty good day. Thanks to her family for coming to celebrate.

What she once may have seen as a never ending story is coming to an end. Congratulations!neverending-image-1

mycrobes takes to the park

The Gerardo lab participated in the second annual Atlanta Science Festival this weekend. At the expo, members of the lab cultured 400 plates of Luria Broth agar with members of the Atlanta community. Participants swabbed hands, ear, noses, cell phones and the bottoms of their shoes. Check out mycrobes.org to see what grows.

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