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Yuanji Zhao-Teddy, a graduate student in the Bhatnagar Lab, has been awarded the Dorothy Ross Graduate Student Research Award for his proposal titled, “Novel Female-Specific Mechanisms of Autism Spectrum Disorder Triggered by Environmental Exposures”. Congratulations!

His proposal will be funded by the MIND Institute’s Dorothy Ross Graduate Student Research Award. This fund honors the memory of Dorothy Ross, mother of Professor Len Abbeduto, and has been made possible through the generosity of Abbeduto and his wife, Terry McMenamin.

Congratulations to Brittany Greenwood and Shruti Parikh – recipients of $1,000 prize in the 2024 Little Bang! Competition.

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Congratulations to Erin Markle – recipient of the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program Scholar Award by the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Clinical and Translational Science Center.

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Congratulations to Brittany Greenwood (Simmons Lab, Microbiology) for receiving one of 16 accepted applications for DEB Research Award: ‘Plants, Insects and Microbes – ‘The Elucidation of a Pseudomonas mosselii Lipopeptide for Biological Control of Fusarium oxysporum”.

Congratulations Eva (Esteban Soto lab) on receiving the best student presentation award at the 46th ANNUAL EASTERN FISH HEALTH WORKSHOP presenting some of her work investigating “Role of Acipenserid herpesvirus 2 Infections on the Outcome of Streptococcus iniae Challenges in White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)”.

In her current role as a graduate student researcher in the Marco Lab, Lei Wei examines the health benefits of fermented vegetables and lactic acid bacteria. Specifically, she is characterizing the mechanisms of how these bacteria and their bioactive metabolites produced during vegetable fermentation can exert health-promoting effects after consumption.

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Professor Maria Marco, a professor of food science, was interviewed by the Washington Post about ‘The best foods to feed your gut microbiome’. She said that research is still continuing on this front, but there are findings that boosting your gut microbiome diversity will increase a person’s immune health.

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Congratulations to Professor Heather Bischel for her NSF CAREER award, which was just announced yesterday! The award is titled "PFAS-BioAction: Innovative treatment of municipal solid waste organics through insect-mediated bioprocessing and sequestration of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances."

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New research from UC Davis scientists reveals that the maladaptation after a virus host switch, in which a poxvirus substantially gained in virulence, can have unexpected consequences such as activating pro-inflammatory pathways.

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Community ecologist Rachel Vannette of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seeks to unlock the mysteries of flower microbes: how do plants protect against them, and can bees benefit from them?

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These ADVANCE Scholars improve gender equity in STEM through their teaching, research and service and encourage research, leadership, and outreach to underserved communities and/or mentorship of underrepresented students.

The ADVANCE Scholar Awards highlight and celebrate the contributions that STEM faculty at UC Davis have made to their fields through outstanding scholarship and mentorship.