Welcome to Natalia Ribeiro, an undergraduate student from the University of Campinas, Brazil. She will be performing a summer internship in our lab through a Science Without Borders Scholarship program.
New publication in Scientific Reports on the transcriptome of Lactobacillus plantarum and the indigenous bacteria in the small intestine. Congrats to Ben for his lead authorship on this paper- http://www.nature.com/articles/srep24723
For more information, see the press release on the paper: http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/
Congratulations to Ben Golomb for completing his PhD on the adaptations of Lactococcus lactis and Lactobacillus plantarum to their hosts. We wish you much success at your new job!
Check out Dorothy Kieffer's new paper on resistant starch amelioration of chronic kidney disease and effects on the gut microbiota and metabolome just published in The AMJ Renal Physiology (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26841824). UPDATE (April 2016) This paper was selected by the American Physiological Society to be recognized as among the best recently published articles in physiological research!
New paper in Frontiers in Microbiology (http://journal.frontiersin.org) on the limitations of using PMA and RNA to quantify viable bacterial cells on plants. This paper was featured on the Barfblog (http://barfblog.com/)
New paper in Journal of Applied Microbiology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2672/accepted) This paper details our investigations on the metabolic capacities of Lactobacillus florum and specifically the production of erythritol and mannitol. Congrats to Charlotte on her dedication to this project!
