In this interview and video conducted for News-Medical.net at Pittcon Conference and Exposition 2024 in San Diego, FST Professor Maria Marco discusses her research on the health benefits, safety, and waste reduction potential of fermented foods, and the microbial processes involved in their production. 

Read the full interview, and watch the video below. 

The 13th In Vino Analytica Scientia (IVAS) Conference was held in Davis, California, July 9-12, 2024. The conference featured an opening plenary lecture by Dr. Fulvio Mattivi of the Edmund Mach Foundation, Michele all’Adige, Italy. Keynote speakers and submitted oral and poster presentations covered six conference themes:

Several of our Food Science and Technology faculty, graduate students and leadership board members and will be participating at the upcoming In-Person IAFP Annual Meeting 2024, to be held July 14-17th, 2024 in Long Beach, California.

From the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Georgian cheese bread, cilantro-blackened fish tacos, quesabirria tacos with seitan and cinnamon sugar churros – four culinary creations but only one was crowned winner of the Upcycled Iron Chef Competition at UC Davis.

The UC Davis 35th Annual Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Conference (April 26-27, 2024) was well-represented by 13 FST undergraduates. The conference is designed to acquaint undergraduate students with the process and academic rigors of presenting research in a scholarly manner and in an affirming environment, and is open to all academic fields. 

Their names and presentation titles are below, as well as their faculty lab affiliation.  For more about the conference, see the link below.