Please read about the exciting research by Dr. Candice Price on how Black women could provide a clue for understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease development in this community. Read the article here. 

We pleased to announce the upcoming Exit Seminar for Jessica Lumian! We hope that you can join in celebrating the completion of Jessica's PhD on Friday, March 11 at 12:10 PM. The seminar details are below.

MMI 291 Seminar Series - Winter Quarter 2022 - CRN 33311

*Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the presentation will be available to stream at: 

https://ucdavishealth.zoom.us/j/96142856707

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Please see this invitation from NSF, Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges. The goal of this program is to bring together researchers with diverse perspectives – including those from all scientific disciplines, with various levels of experience (from senior scientists to postdocs), from different types of institutions or organizations, and from groups historically underrepresented in STEM – to share ideas about how Rules of Life approaches and data might be harnessed by multidisciplinary teams to tackle pressing societal challenges.

Jonathan Eisen and Andreas Baumler from the  Microbiome Research Working Group were recently recognized as "Highly cited Researchers" by Clarivate, a global leader in providing information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation. Read more here. 

UC Davis will be hosting a Nature Conference occurring October 22-24, 2021, “Harnessing the Plant Microbiome”. The virtual conference will focus on how the plant microbiome holds great promise for expediting solutions to the grand challenges facing humanity, such as food security, food safety, and environmental sustainability. It also aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations on the current and emerging themes in this exciting research area.

Great article about some of the amazing COVID19 research going on at UC Davis.  Everything from cell culture of the virus, to novel test development, to sociology.  There are people working like crazy behind the scenes to connect researchers and clinicians, find gaps in materials/manpower/funding, and bring everyone together.   Really inspiring to see all this.

What do you get when you combine UC Davis alumni, tomato seeds, and citizen science?   That would be Project GASP (“Germ”-ination Alumni Science Project).  I didn't come up with the name, I swear.   This project, sponsored and paid for by the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis, is interested in looking at the heritability of the tomato seed microbiome.  There is a large body of research on the importance of the microbiome for the health and productivity of plants in agriculture.   T

I am happy to announce the publication of a new paper from a group of people, myself included, about the "Emergence of Microbiome Centers."