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.
Nick Bokulich has been awarded an American Society for Brewing Chemist award for the 2012-2013 school year. This particular award was contributed by the Brian Williams Scholarship fund. Congrats Nick!
Drs. Mark Underwood, Bruce German, Carlito Lebrilla and Dr. Mills's research was profiled in a story entitled "The Power of Milk" in the June issue of Discover magazine. Florence Williams was the author of the piece.
At the recent Northern California Institute of Food Technology meeting Nick Bokulich was awarded the Bernie S. and Alta Schweigert Award. Congratulations Nick!
Dr. Mills and Greg Allen (Winemaker Dolce Winery) were interviewed on the Ion Torrent Bus discussing how Next Generation Sequencing tools can be used to profile the microbial ecology of wine fermentations.
