Christopher McNeil, a former Ph.D. student in Professor Carolyn Slupsky's lab (FSGG, Class of 2020), stars in an engaging and informative YouTube video for Epicurious, breaking down the text on the bread bag into easily understandable pieces.
UC Davis Students Create and Sell Iron Brew winning Scottish Ale
Zann Gates
June 03, 2022
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Welcome to Luis Diaz-Garcia!
The Department of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis is excited to announce that Luis Diaz-Garcia will be joining the department as a new faculty member and grape breeder, starting July 1, 2022! Welcome to UC Davis V&E! Ted Rieger has written a nice introduction to Luis, which can be found here.
Should There Be More Microbes on Your Plate?
Zann Gates
May 18, 2022
Scientists Make the First Large-scale Estimate of Live Microorganisms Consumed in the U.S. Diet
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Coffee, honey and beer: Leadership California treated to tasty dimensions of UC Davis foods and beverage research
Zann Gates
May 11, 2022
How was your Friday morning? Full of tasty delights that feed your belly and your curiosity? Well, on Friday April 22nd, 55 women from Leadership California were treated to early coffees with a presentation from chemical engineer Tonya Kuhl, co-director of the UC Davis Coffee Center, followed by a honey tasting with Amina Harris, director of the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center.
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Researchers from UC Davis and universities in Denmark and the Netherlands are joining forces in a new research project to reduce the need for antibiotics in pig production by improving intestinal resilience in developing piglets. The $21.2 million, 5-year PIG-PARADIGM project is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
The complexity of beer was the topic of the first “night at the museum” event at Sacramento’s newest science center, the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, or MOSAC, on March 28, 2022.
A big congratulations to the team of Melissa Huang, Amber Sun, Katie Routt and Nicholas Cheng (all 3rd-year Food Science students) for taking third place and a check for $4,000 in the American Baking Society Product Development Competition at BakingTECH 2022, held March 1-3 in Chicago!
The 2022-2023 cohort of the Professors of the Future program includes one graduate student from the Food Science Graduate Group and two postdoctoral scholars from the Department of Food Science and Technology. The program fosters leadership skills in outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to prepare them for successful careers in an increasingly competitive professional environment. As part of the program, fellows design and execute projects to enhance the professional development of their peers.
CBS Mornings did an interview with FST's Luxin Wang, BAE's Gang Sun and Jiahan Zou on their reusable, compostable "jelly ice" research development, which was shared nationally to their 2.26 million subscribers, all potential viewers of the video. Embedded below with direct link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkeKpb1JhA (YouTube, 4:24 min)
