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2024
First lead paper out!
The first paper led by us is published in Nat Commun! Congratulations, Ying-Xian, Balu, and Antho...
Mia presenting at ABRCMS.
Mia presented their work on soil microbial community assembly at the 2024 Annual Biomedical Resea...
New paper out!
Our collaborative paper Metagenomic insights into microalgae-bacterium-virus interactions and vir...
Mia presenting at the NRT meeting.
Mia presented their work on microbial risk assessment in aquifer recharge at the 2024 NSF Researc...
Congratulations Leela!
Congratulations to Leela for receiving an Undergraduate Research Grant from VT Global Change Cent...
Ying-Xian presenting at the CeZAP symposium.
Ying-Xian gave an oral presentation on the ecological niches and transmission of soil Listeria mo...
Congratulations Mia!
Congratulations to Mia on winning a travel award for both the 2024 NSF Research Traineeship (NRT)...
Welcome Ashlyn!
Ashlyn O’Neill joined us as an undergraduate researcher. She majors in civil engineering with an ...
Welcome Emily!
Emily Matthews is a Ph.D. student in CEE co-advised by Dr. Ryan Calder and Jingqiu. She is an IGC...
Two articles released!
Ying-Xian has published two articles aimed at a general audience! An Unnoticeable Foodborne Illne...
Our UG researchers presenting at the VT Summer Research Conference.
Our undergraduate researchers, Keegan and Audrey, presented their work on microbial sampler and L...
Ying-Xian presenting at IAFP.
Ying-Xian presented his work on the ecological niches of Listeria monocytogenes lineages in soils...
Mia presenting at the SWIFT workshop.
It was a pleasure visiting the HRSD SWIFT Research Center! Mia talked about the impact of adsorpt...
LEAPHers shine at ASM Microbe.
Ying-Xian and Mia attended the 2024 ASM Microbe Conference held in Atlanta, GA, where they showca...
Jingqiu wins an ORAU award!
It is of great honor to receive the 2024 ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. We ...
Welcome Audrey!
Audrey Barnes joined the lab as a CEED summer undergraduate researcher. Welcome!
Two papers out!
Happy to see the work that we took part in is published in two papers back to back! The paper on ...
2024 goodbye party
We had a goodbye party to honor four of our graduating students: Hardeep, Sandeep, Shan, and Shan...
Lab received a grant from GCC!
Grateful to the Global Change Center for funding us to study the impact of hydrological condition...
Keegen presenting his project at a conference.
Keegen presented his first research project about microbial samplers at the VT Dennis Dean Underg...
Congratulations Ying-Xian and Keegan!
Congratulations to Ying-Xian on winning the CeZAP ID IGEP Graduate Student Mini-Grant and to Keeg...
LEAPHers excel at Graduate Research Symposium.
Ying-Xian and Mia participated at 40th Annual GPSS Graduate Research Symposium. Ying-Xian won 2nd...
Jingqiu giving an invited talk at PSU.
Jingqiu gave a seminar about genomic variation of Listeria and its implication to food safety at ...
Congratulations Mia and Ying-Xian!
Big congrats to Mia for winning the 2024 ASM Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award and to Ying-Xi...
Jingqiu giving a talk at the ATCC/CeZAP workshop.
Jingqiu talked about source attribution of Salmonella at the Zoonotic Disease Research Workshop h...
New paper out!
Our collaborative review paper Adaptive strategies and ecological roles of phages in habitats und...
Kick-off meeting
We kicked off this semester’s lab meeting with great energy. Look forward to a semester of breakt...
Welcome Sai and Leela!
Sai Ashraya Chegu and Leela Ohri joined the lab as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Sai and Le...
Jingqiu giving a talk at MEEhubs2024.
Jingqiu talked about ecological drivers shaping soil microbial diversity at MEEhubs2024, an innov...
Congratulations Ying-Xian!
Starting off the year with good news. Ying-Xian was awarded Roop and Kavita Mahajan Fund from ICT...
2023
Welcome Hardeep!
FNU Hardeep joined the lab for a research project. Welcome, Hardeep!
New paper out!
New minireview Taxonomy, ecology, and relevance to food safety of the genus Listeria with a parti...
Winter celebration!
Another semester comes to a close. We took a moment to celebrate the successes we’ve achieved. We...
Jingqiu giving an invited talk at FST.
Jingqiu talked about genomic variation of in soil-dwelling Listeria at the VT Department of Food ...
Lab welcomes two undergrad researchers!
Two undergraduate students, Keegan Trubenbach and Calla Inman joined us! Keegan is a CEE sophomor...
New paper out!
The article Microplastics and chemical leachates from plastic pipes are associated with increased...
Jingqiu giving a CeZAP seminar.
Jingqiu presented lab’s work on the antibiotic resistance genes in soil-dwelling Listeria in CeZA...
Jingqiu giving an invited talk at UofM.
Jingqiu presented lab’s work on soil microbial diversity across the United States at the Departme...
Jingqiu giving a GBCB seminar.
Jingqiu talked about genomic variation of Listeria species isolated across the US at a Genetics, ...
New paper out!
A new metagenomics pipeline for antibiotic resistance genes that we contributed to is out in Fron...
Lab awarded an ORAU grant!
Happy to share that our ORAU-Directed Research and Development proposal has been selected for fun...
EPA grant awarded!
Our lab is honored to be part of the effort to evaluate the risk and performance of enhanced aqui...
Two papers out!
We have two papers published back to back! The paper on the microdiversity of the vaginal microbi...
Lab welcomes three new members!
Two Ph.D. students, Ying-Xian Goh and Mia Riddley, and an M.S. student, Shan Askari, joined us! Y...
Jingqiu giving a talk at IAFP.
Jingqiu gave a talk about the ecology of antibiotic resistance genes in Listeria at the IAFP 2023...
Welcome Balu!
Balu Anupoju joined the lab for a research project. Welcome, Balu!
Lab awarded a 4-VA Research Grant!
Our lab is awarded a 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant to continue working on the prediction of L...
Shannon giving a presentation at AEESP.
Shannon and Jingqiu attended 2023 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors...
Jingqiu giving a presentation at ASM Microbe.
Jingqiu presented her work on the genomic diversification of Listeria monocytogenes at 2023 ASM M...
Jingqiu receives a New Faculty Mentoring Grant!
Jingqiu receives a New Faculty Mentoring Grant from the Executive Vice President and Provost and ...
Welcome Siva!
Siva Sagar Kolachina joined the lab for a research project. Welcome Siva!
Jingqiu giving a talk at an ASM Meeting.
Jingqiu gave an early career talk about antibiotic resistance genes in Listeria at the Washington...
Welcome Aruj!
Aruj Nayak joined the lab for research projects. Welcome Aruj!
Jingqiu named an ISCE Scholar!
We are very excited and grateful that our proposal is selected for the 2023-2024 Scholars Program...
Lab awarded a 4-VA Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant!
Our lab is awarded a 4-VA Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Grant to develop a computational tool to pr...
Jingqiu awarded a Peggy Cotter Award!
Jingqiu is selected as a recipient of the Peggy Cotter Award for Early Career Branch Members to s...
Jingqiu giving an invited talk at UGA.
Jingqiu shared a microbial ecology and evolution framework to unlock novel insights into food saf...
New paper out!
Happy to share that the paper Restriction endonuclease cleavage of phage DNA enables resuscitatio...
Happy hour!
The LEAPH Lab had a buzzing happy hour! Great local pizza!
New preprint out!
Our preprint on the associations between microdiversity of the vaginal microbiome and preterm bir...
Two new papers out!
Excited to see two papers that we co-authored out: Preterm birth is associated with xenobiotics a...
2022
Welcome Sandeep!
Sandeep Chinnareddy joined the lab for a research project. Welcome Sandeep!
Jingqiu giving a webinar to BUT.
Jingqiu gave a webinar about the ecology and evolution of environmentally transmitted and foodbor...
Jingqiu giving an invited talk at an ASM conference.
Jingqiu was invited to give a talk about the potential transmission of Listeria monocytogenes acr...
Jingqiu interviewed with Grad-SWE at UCLA.
Jingqiu shared her stories behind her career path in STEM in an interview with Grad-SWE at UCLA. ...
Welcome Anthony!
Anthony Nguyen joined the lab for a research project. Welcome Anthony!
Lab awarded an ICTAS seed grant!
We’re very honored to receive the ICTAS EFO-O Seed Grant Award to study the source attribution of...
Jingqiu giving a talk at the CeZAP ID Symposium.
Jingqiu talked about genomic diversification of Listeria monocytogenes at the 2022 CeZAP Infecti...
Lab awarded a CeZAP pilot grant!
We’re very honored to be awarded the CeZAP Faculty Research Pilot Grant to study antimicrobial re...
Welcome Shannon!
Shannon Hepp, our first graduate student, joined the lab. Welcome Shannon!
Lab is up and running!
The LEAPH Lab at VT officially opens its door!