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We published a paper describing rapid assays to detect Mycoplasma bovis, an important bovine mastitis causing pathogen, in the Journal of Dairy Science. This work was brought about by our collaboration with Drs. Sharif Aly and Terry Lehenbauer in the UCD School of. Veterinary Medicine and with support from the California Dairy Resarch Foundation. 

Our studies on how milk and milk fermented by Lactobacillus casei  can prevent impairments to intestinal epithelial barrier integrity in Caco-2 cells was published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Our paper showing that L. plantarum iconsumption results in reduced weight gain and the barrier-protective properties of of the L.plantarum bacteriocin plantaricin EF was published in Gut Microbes. 

Congratulations to Zeya on being awarded second place in the oral competition at Jiangnan University's Global Food Science Student Competition. She was one of 70 students competing from 60 Universities, representing 36 countries.

Our paper "Microbiota, metabolome, and immune alterations in obese mice fed a high-fat diet containing type 2 resistant starch", published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, was one of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded recent papers in the past year

Our paper on how DNA sequencing and bioinformatics methods impact bacterial community analysis was published in mSphere.

Maria joined The Fermentation Association Advisory Board

Ellie's paper on the role of sucrose metabolism for Lactobacillus plantarum in the digestive tract was published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Congratulations to Eric Stevens on being selected for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award

Congratulations to Ellie Yin on being selected for the John E. Kinsella Memorial Prize for outstanding research on her doctoral dissertation

Zach Quart and Hiu Mak presented their research at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference. Well-done to two of our excellent undergraduate students!

Congratulations to Annabelle Yu on being selected to travel to Uganda this summer as part of a Trellis Fund Project from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture. 

Maria was the guest editor on this year's Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Food Biotechnology issue

Ellie's paper on the importance of Lactobacillus plantarum plantaricin synthesis in the GI tract was published

Our review on intestinal Lactobacillus and its association with health and disease was published in Current Opinion of Biotechnology. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2017.08.004)