Research from the Foods for Health Institute and former postdoc Dr. Katie Hinde about the complex composition of human milk is highlighted in an article on slate.com
Revisit the exciting research, the multi-disciplinary collaborations, the substantial grants and awards, the outstanding student publications, and a year of special events from the Foods for Health Institute. We have accomplished some incredible things in 2012; here are some important events that shaped the Institute and opened new possibilities for the future.
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.
The Foods for Health Institute announces an exciting partnership that engages school children in new ways to manage their health. The project is funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
FFHI-associated graduate student Nick Bokulich is first author of an important study advancing bioinformatic methods to directly characterize the diversity of microbes in natural sites. The study was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Methods.
Dr. Juliana Maria Leite Nobrega de Moura Bell is an expert in membrane filtration and a project scientist working in the Advanced Milk Processing Lab, located in the newest building of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science complex.
With a $9.3 million startup grant from the National Institutes of Health, UC Davis has opened the West Coast Metabolomics Center, a high-tech consortium of research laboratories that will help scientists better understand and develop more effective treatments for complex diseases like diabetes, atherosclerosis and cancer.
