Spring 2020 Awards

Spring 2020 Awards

We would like to congratulate two of our PhD students for being recognized by Georgia State University’s Biology Department!

Brianna (Galbreath) Chilton received the Steven Kudravi Memorial Award for excellence in teaching!

Nosa Amadasun received the Donald Ahearn Endowed Fellowship in Applied and Environmental Microbiology! We take pride in last year’s recipient as well– our own Maurice De La Croix!

Both have shown an arduous passion for their respective projects and we are fortunate to have them as mentors in the lab!

2019 ASM Abstract Reviewers

2019 ASM Abstract Reviewers

Congratulations to Kelly Cannon, Brianna Galbreath, and Maurice de la Croix for being selected to review abstracts for the ASM Microbe 2019 hosted by the American Society for Microbiology this year in San Francisco, California. Kelly, Brianna, and Maurice will be reviewing numerous abstracts for ASM Microbe 2019 that theme around fermentation and biotransformation. Several AEM lab members are active members of the American Society for Microbiology and participated at the ASM Microbe 2018 that was hosted in Atlanta, GA.  

Strong AEM Showing at the GeorgiaBio Innovation Summit 2018

Strong AEM Showing at the GeorgiaBio Innovation Summit 2018

This year the 2018 GeorgiaBio Innovation Summit saw the attendance and poster presentations of nine students from the Applied and Environmental Microbiology group which encompassed the labs of both Dr. Pierce and Dr. Gilbert. In attendance were Merhawi Mihreteab, Barielba Nenbee, Maurice de la Croix, Etna SanchezRaza Momin, Nimna Wijewantha, Brianna Galbreath, Mariya Campbell, and Yathreb Bayan

Congratulations to Merhawi Mihreteab for winning the 2018 Anthony Shuker Scientific Poster Award!