The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology is delighted to have Dr. Neha Garg, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research (CF-AIR), present at our Seminar Series. Dr. Garg’s presentation is titled “Metabolomics-Based Approaches to Investigate Microbe-Drug, Microbe-Microbe, and Microbe-Host Interactions.”

The Pharmacology & Toxicology Seminar is open to UAB students, faculty and staff.

Dr. Neha Garg – Short Biography

Neha Garg is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech broadly interested in understanding how small molecules shape microbial composition in complex environments. Garg obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2013 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Professors Wilfred A. van der Donk and Satish K. Nair. Neha's dissertation work in Illinois was recognized by the Anne A Johnson work award and the Catherine Connor Outstanding Dissertation in Biotechnology award. She then worked with Professor Pieter C. Dorrestein as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, San Diego where she developed metabolomics methods to visualize microbial communities. At Georgia Tech, Garg was awarded NSF CAREER award, R35 MIRA award, and Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development award to develop –omics methods for investigating natural products-mediated chemical communication between host and microbe as well as mucus-associated probiotic and pathogenic microbes. Her work has been recognized by the Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award and the ACS Organic Division with the Academic Young Investigator Award. She has also received several teaching awards at Georgia Tech including Center for Teaching and Learning Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction. In her research, Garg develops and applies interdisciplinary approaches in chemical microbiology, molecular biology, microscopy, mass spectrometry, and genomics to unveil the role of microbial, host, and chemical environments in the production of small molecule natural products.