Neha Garg
Contact Information
- neha.garg@chemistry.gatech.edu
- Phone
- (404) 385-5677
- Location
- EBB 4016
- Research Group
- Garg Lab
- Publication Links
- Google Scholar
Neha Garg
Associate Professor
Awards
- 2024-26 College of Sciences Blanchard Early Career Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2024 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award
- 2023 NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (R35)
- 2023 ACS Academic Young Investigator, Division of Organic Chemistry
- 2022 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching and Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology 2022 Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2023 Emerging investigator highlighted by the journal ChemBioChem (ChemBioTalents)
- 2021 NSF CAREER Award
- 2019 Emerging Investigator highlighted by the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- 2019 Harold-Nations Faculty Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2018 Vasser-Woolley Faculty Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2014 Anne A. Johnson Work Award, Outstanding female graduate student for excellence in Biochemistry, UIUC, Urbana, Illinois
- 2013 Catherine Connor Outstanding Dissertation in Biotechnology Award, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, UIUC, Urbana, Illinois
- 2012 Gumport Travel Award, UIUC, Urbana, Illinois
Education
- B.S., University Institute of Engineering and Technology, India (2006)
- M.S., Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India (2008)
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, UC San Diego (2017)
Research
Eukaryotes, including humans and marine organisms, are 'petri dishes', hosting an abundant and a rich prokaryotic 'microbiome'. The Garg Lab aims to understand the molecular interactions between a eukaryotic host and its microbiome, and how these molecular interactions dictate health and disease. Using a concoction of innovative tools including Mass Spectrometry-based metabolomics, DNA sequencing, Bioinformatics, Clinical Microbiology, and Mass spectrometry-based 2D and 3D spatial imaging (spatial metabolomics), we aim to delineate specific molecules that modulate the dynamics of microbial involvement in response to genetic and environmental triggers of disease (link phenotypes to molecules). We characterize the biosynthesis of these small molecule natural products to innovate developement of new therapeutics.