UC Davis Health Medical Microbiology & Immunology

Thank you to everyone who attended our symposium last Friday, April 3! Read more about it here: health.ucdavis.edu/insideout/news… @UCDavisMedCntr @UCDavisMed @UCDavis_Nursing @UCDMINDINST @MGGucdavis

Congratulations Dr. Janine LaSalle for being elected as an AAAS Fellow! More here: health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines…

Our symposium is the Friday after next! "Breaking Boundaries - From Discovery to Intervention: Charting the Journey from Basic Science to Biotech Breakthroughs"! Register now: tinyurl.com/UCDBreakingBou

Please join us on April 3 for our inaugural symposium entitled "Breaking Boundaries - From Discovery to Intervention: Charting the Journey from Basic Science to Biotech Breakthroughs"! Register now: tinyurl.com/UCDBreakingBou…

health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines… Exciting outreach to Yolo County high schools!

New article by Drs. Sanchita Bhatnagar and Jogender Tushir-Singh! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

health.ucdavis.edu/synthesis/summ… Congratulations Dr. Bhatnagar on being part of the inaugural Cancer Leadership Academy this year!

A gut-derived molecule, 10-hydroxystearic acid, has been shown to reverse #LiverDamage and repair the #GutLining after toxin exposure, offering a potential non-toxic therapy for fatty liver disease. @mbiojournal doi.org/g9wt3b medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-m…

New potential treatment to prevent and treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)! Read more: 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…

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

*NEW Paper ALERT* Our new work in @NatureComms 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 metastatic protease involved in the metastasis of almost all solid tumors including ovarian cancer ascites, etc. Our findings explain the lower cancer incidence in primates (vs. humans) and also the deep mechanistic reasoning behind the potentially less successful outcome of T and CAR-T based immunotherapies against metastatic solid tumors (vs. leukemia, etc). Congratulations to Wamba E, Mondal et al., and all other authors and collaborators @plegembre @carterra_bio (Dan Bedinger) @UCDavisMedCntr @UCD_Cancer @UCD_MMI The manuscript can be found here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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

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🔬🦠 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…

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

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

🔬🦠 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…