Dr. David Mills and Dr. Bruce German have joined a host of collaborators on the American Gut Project. This open source project seeks to characterize the microbial diversity in the American public.
Elizabeth Chin and Erica Vonasek, Ph.D. students in the Food Science and Technology Department, received Graduate Fellowship Awards for their research on citrus disease and food safety.
The Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Davis is sponsoring a week-long intensive Food and Health Entrepreneurship Academy to help science and engineering students, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty develop commercial interest in their research relevant to foods for health.