A new project with BASF focused on HMO bioactivity and lead by Prof Barile has garnered some media attention. Congratulations for Prof Barile for her leadership of this project.
The UC Davis Milk Group was profiled in Ed Yong's new book "I Contain Multitudes". A chapter discussing the UCD Milk Group work was excerpted in the New Yorker.
A paper in Cell from Dr. Jeff Gordon's lab which involved a UC Davis team of researchers (including UCD professors Mills, Lebrilla and Barile) has been profiled in a number of venues.
Zach Lewis's paper demonstrating a new method for differentiating B. longum subsp. infantis from B. longum subsp. longum and it's use to test various probiotic label claims is getting some attention from the press.
The work by Dr. Yvonne Wan with Dr. Carolyn Slupsky and Dr. Mills to examine the influence of the gut microbiome on the onset liver cancer was recently profiled by the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center magazine Synthesis. In this work the researchers will test if milk glycans and Bifidobacterium infantis can dampen inflammation and thereby lower incidence of liver cancer.
The UC Davis Office of Research recently profiled the activities of the UC Davis Milk Bioactives Group. This includes a video of Dr. Bruce German presenting at the RISE symposium.
