Yifan
Tang
2nd year PhD Candidate, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Agarwal Lab
About
I completed my Bachelors in Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023. Now I am pursuing a MS in Bioinformatics and am a PhD Candidate in Biochemistry. I work in the Agarwal Lab specializing in marine Natural Products (NP). My interest involve investigating marine commensal bacteria through the lenses of genomics, metabolomics, and morphology.
Research Interests
My work spans:
- Discovery & Structure Elucidation of novel NP
- Phylogenomic Analysis of marine bacteria to uncover their biosynthetic potential
- Metabolomic Networking to map chemical diversity and prioritize strains for novel NP discovery
- Genome Mining to link biosynthetic gene clusters with their corresponding NP
Together, these approaches connect genomic and chemical observations to accelerate the discovery and characterization of novel bioactive marine compounds.
Email
ytang370@gatech.edu