Nick Bokulich's wine microbial terroir work—presented by Dr. Mills and Bokulich at the Recent Advances in Viticulture and Enology meeting was profiled in a recent Wines and Vines article.
With much excitement and anticipation, Dr. Daniel Garrido has moved onto a faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses in the School of Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. This is one of the oldest and most famous universities in Chile, located in Santiago. Daniel will be teaching Biotechnology students and supporting the major of Biological Engineering.
Dr. Mills has joined a host of collaborators on the American Gut Project. This open source project, initiated by Rob Knight and Jeff Leach seeks to characterize the microbial diversity in the American public. A very cool way to find out the identify of your own bacteria symbionts!
The well known evolutionary biologist, and prolific scientific blogger, Jon Eisen has recently profiled Nick Bokulich's recent PLoS One papers on Dolce Wine and American Spontaneous Ale. Thanks Jon!
Recently Daniel Garrido's paper in Molecular and Cellular Proteomics has been highlighted by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and covered by various news outlets. This paper examines a novel endoglycanase from bifidobacteria. Congrats to Daniel!
Danielle Lemay and Daniela Barile profiled how Bifidobacterium infantis can digest milk glycans and glycoproteins in the latest issue of SPLASH and the Milk Genomics Consortium site.