Congratulations to Andrew Rogers Andrew Rogers for winning a poster award at the Gastrointestinal Tract XXI: Life, Death, and Disease meeting in Banff

How do you distill #microbiome complexity into ecologically meaningful units? Clear away the confusion with MICROBIOME FOR DUMMIES: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…

Hats off to sanchita bhatnagar for her effort to provide underserved and remote communities with mammograms by coordinating this collaboration between UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Cent, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement, and Davis Senior High School! #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #BelieveinBetter davisenterprise.com/news/blue-devi…

Differential Host Gene Expression in Response to Infection by Different Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains—A Pilot Study mdpi.com/3012424

(1/6) Our new paper is out (OA): Host species-specific activity of the poxvirus PKR inhibitors E3 and K3 mediate host range function | Journal of Virology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv… It took 15 years from our initial discovery that human and mouse PKR were sensitive, whereas ...

How do pathogens invade ecosystems? health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines…

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Microbiome Sciences. Apply by December 11th at: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

Our UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Cent researchers may have found the genetic driver of an aggressive breast cancer in women of color. Learn more about their recently published findings. ucdavis.health/4gEXcnh UC Davis Health UC Davis Research

In our January issue: The #type2 #immune response in #gut #homeostasis & parasite #transmission in #malaria, authored by Nora Céspedes, Renée Tsolis, Adrian Piliponsky & Shirley Luckhart. University of Idaho UC Davis Health Medical Microbiology & Immunology UC Davis #Bacteremia #Immunity #Immunoregulatory cell.com/trends/parasit…

Congrats Andreas Baumler on being a 2025 SOM Impact Symposia Awardee! The “Microbial Pathogenesis in the Microbiome Era" conference will bring together experts in pathogenesis and pioneers in microbiome research to share insights across molecular, microbial, and community levels.

🔬🦠 Gut inflammation disrupts microbiota, but can microbes aid repair? This study shows how Lactiplantibacillus plantarum & Bifidobacterium infantis reprogram tryptophan metabolism, boosting epithelial repair in the HIV/SIV-inflamed gut. 🚀 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Professor Jonathan Eisen Jonathan Eisen explains how buildings are ecosystems for microbes: ucdavis.edu/health/news/im…

Congratulations to Professor Dennis Hartigan-O’Connor for his $3.67 million NIH grant! Our department is proud to be part of UCDavisMedSchool which is among the nation’s leading medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines…

🔬🦠 How to make sense of the taxonomic complexity & interpersonal variability of the gut microbiota? We propose that beneath this complexity lies a hierarchy of factors that control gut microbiota assembly. Read more! #Microbiome #GutHealth authors.elsevier.com/a/1km32_,2CiQu…

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We invite qualified candidates to apply for a Junior Specialist position in Dr. Satya Dandekar's lab within the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the UC Davis School of Medicine. For full consideration, please apply by Thursday, 6/12/2025: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07133

*NEW Paper ALERT* Our new work in Nature Communications on FasL-mediated cancer cell death regulation has revealed that evolutionary substitutions (humans vs. primates) in the FasL extracellular domain render human FasL differentially susceptible to plasmin protease cleavage, a key

A single genetic mutation may have made humans more vulnerable to cancer than chimpanzees UC Davis Health health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines…

Our summer internship program inspires the next generation of researchers through mentorship and hands-on experience. Read more: health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines…

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