The Marco lab is located in The Department of Food Science & Technology at The University of California, Davis
Research in the Marco lab examines the roles of microorganisms in determining food safety, food quality, and gut health. A common thread to our projects is the investigation of the ecology and host-microbe interactions of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in food systems and the mammalian digestive tract. The broad objective of this research program is to identify the attributes of microorganisms which can be used to guide improvements in food production to benefit human health.
Research in the Marco lab examines the roles of microorganisms in determining food safety, food quality, and gut health. A common thread to our projects is the investigation of the ecology and host-microbe interactions of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in food systems and the mammalian digestive tract. The broad objective of this research program is to identify the attributes of microorganisms which can be used to guide improvements in food production to benefit human health.
LAB NEWS
May 2013 Kick-off on our new project "Bacterial signatures of milk quality" sponsored by the California Dairy Research Foundation. See here for the interview and press release: http://cdrf.org/2013/05/15/meet-maria-marco-a-microbiologist-determined-to-apply-advanced-microbial-genomics-research-to-dairy-product-innovations/
April 2013 Congratulations to Tom Williams! He won both the Chancellor's Grand prize and the Dean's prize in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science for his oral presentation at the UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium
(http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about/igps.html). Way to go Tom!
January 2013 Eun Bae Kim is the first author on a paper describing the first genome sequence of Lactobacillus florum
October 2012 Review article by Sybille Tachon and Maria entitled "Environmental factors influencing the efficacy of probiotic bacteria" was published in the Current Opinion in Biotechnology. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/09581669
October 2012 Lauren Kopit won 2nd place in the annual RMI graduate student poster competition for her poster entitled "Evaluation of the safety of Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354 used in thermal process validation". Lauren is a 2nd year MS student in V&E. Her project is funded by the Almond Board of California. Congratulations Lauren!
April 2013 Congratulations to Tom Williams! He won both the Chancellor's Grand prize and the Dean's prize in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science for his oral presentation at the UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium
(http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about/igps.html). Way to go Tom!
January 2013 Eun Bae Kim is the first author on a paper describing the first genome sequence of Lactobacillus florum
October 2012 Review article by Sybille Tachon and Maria entitled "Environmental factors influencing the efficacy of probiotic bacteria" was published in the Current Opinion in Biotechnology. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/09581669
October 2012 Lauren Kopit won 2nd place in the annual RMI graduate student poster competition for her poster entitled "Evaluation of the safety of Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354 used in thermal process validation". Lauren is a 2nd year MS student in V&E. Her project is funded by the Almond Board of California. Congratulations Lauren!
Visit from
Roland and Lex |
Project meeting for ABF project in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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