#NewPublicationAlert 🎉 Our recent study explores consumer motivations for eating #FermentedFoods🦠🍴 While digestive benefits & #probiotics are key drivers, taste is the primary motivator. Many consumers assume all FF offer same health benefits Find the full story rb.gy/7xf083 #GutHealth #FoodScience

This podcast gives you in the inside scoop on ISAPP's recently published scientific consensus definition of gut health! Hear from the 2 lead authors about the 6 domains of gut health and what the definition means for future study design. isappscience.org/resource/epi...

We’re very excited to welcome Dr. Barry (Jingzhang) Feng as the newest postdoctoral fellow in our group! ✨🎉 Barry has a background in food safety. Barry will contribute to the EATLAC project, focusing on enhancing the health benefits and improving the safety of fermented foods. #MarcoLab #EATLAC

New online! The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on the definition and scope of gut health

Excited to share our latest publication! 🎉 This consensus statement, led by @isappscience.bsky.social, establishes an evidence-based definition of gut health relevant to clinical practice & dietary & biotic interventions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #GutHealth #Microbiome #ISAPP #DigestiveHealth

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Vi Pham as the newest postdoctoral fellow in our group! 🎉 Vi has an exciting background in food fermentation and lactic acid bacteria metabolism, and is interested in integrating microbial genomics and metabolites to investigate health implications.

Excited to welcome Caterina Nicolotti, a Food Science PhD student from the University of Parma, Italy, joining us as a visiting student for the next six months!! 🎓✨ Caterina is interested in characterizing probiotic strains and studying their effects using intestinal epithelial cell models.

Checkout our latest publication..! 🎊 Comprehensive review of studies assessing the effects of fermented dairy foods on gut health of adults & children...now published at academic.oup.com/nutritionrev... Congratulations to Glory Bui and Prof. Marco 🎉 #Probiotics #Guthealth #FermentedFoods #Dairy

Super excited to announce our new Review! 🥁 Lactobacilli biology, applications, and host interactions shorturl.at/pF31b Congratulations to @alejandramejia.bsky.social & Prof. Marco! 🎉 Lactobacilli are everywhere, in our food, gut, & now at the center of exciting opportunities in health & nutrition

New online! Lactobacilli biology, applications and host interactions

"Should I take a probiotic?" is a common question that clinicians receive. Here's an answer that's based on the latest science. isappscience.org/how-to-respo...

Thrilled to share our new publication (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...) examining whether fermented cabbage (sauerkraut) can protect intestinal barrier from inflammation-induced disruptions! #Gut Health #Fermented Foods #LAB #GutHeath #Probiotics

Congratulations 🎉 to Mackenzie Carter on the Sherman Leonard Memorial Award by the Food science and Technology department @ucdavis.bsky.social The fellowship is awarded to Food science students in the memory of Sherman Leonard for his devoted work in preservation & improvement of perishable foods !

Maria joins the ranks of the other fellows in the American Academy of Microbiology! caes.ucdavis.edu/news/fst-pro...

Excited to announce that our undergraduate, Sahana Mohan, received the Provost Undergraduate Fellowship by @ucdavis.bsky.social 🎉, as a support for her research in our lab. Sahana's project will focus on exploring diversity of #LacticAcidBacteria in Indian fermented lentils #FermentedFoods #UCDavis

Thrilled to share our new review article on the health promoting effects of lacto-ferments & bioactive constituents –underlining that consuming safely prepared lacto-ferments serves as a promising strategy to improve & sustain human health doi.org/10.1146/annu... #FermentedFoods #Microbes #Guthealth

Prof. Marco & Dr. Lei Wei spoke about beneficial microbes in fermented foods, impact of diet in efficacy of #Probiotics, effects of fermented vegetables on gut barrier integrity & outreach efforts to promote probiotic foods, at UC Davis FST 10th Annual Symposium #Fermentedfoods #Guthealth #Marcolab

Hello from the Marco Lab! We are a group of researchers from UC Davis. Our lab focuses on the host-microbe interactions of lactic acid bacteria & investigating their roles in determining food safety, food quality & gut health. Check out our website!!! marcolab.ucdavis.edu