By Lisa Howard UC Davis students hope to use artificial intelligence to change how employees are recruited What if, instead of filling out a boring online form to apply for a job, you could just have a chat with a friendly bot using Facebook messenger? That’s the idea behind Wazlo, a Davis-based startup that wants […]
By Lisa Howard Adding compost to soil introduces needed carbon and nutrients, but less is known about what happens to the existing microbiome. Can microbes within the compost successfully “invade” the resident community? And if so, how long do they stick around? How do the resources and microbes in the compost affect the resident microbe […]
By Lisa Howard May 11, 2017 Susan Eberler’s research focuses on wine and chemistry. Patsy Eubanks Owens’ research focuses on the relationships between people and the outdoor environment. Astrid Volder specializes in plant root systems — how plant roots respond to stresses such as extreme heat or drought. And Marco Molinaro’s research has looked […]
By Lisa Howard 1. Soil Actually Has a Microbiome Gut bacteria have been getting a lot of attention lately (yogurt, anyone?) but it turns out the soil in your own back yard is teeming with microbial life. According to Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and microbial ecology, a quarter teaspoon of soil can […]
By Jenna Gallegos Scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered that DNA sequences thought to be essential for gene activity can be expendable. Sequences once called junk sometimes call the shots instead. Professor Alan Rose has been working for over two decades to unravel a mechanism called “intron-mediated enhancement.” I’m a graduate student […]
Throughout UC Davis’ history, the university has brought scientists across disciplines to work together on the challenge of growing food. Now, Ben Houlton, director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis, is focusing his efforts on helping the campus apply that same collaborative know-how toward the problem of climate change.
The UC Davis Office of Research is pleased to announce the recipients of eight seed funding awards that will be jointly supported with the University of Sydney through the Priority Partnership Collaboration Awards (PPCA) Program. UC Davis and the University of Sydney entered into a partnership agreement earlier this year. Under the terms of the agreement, both […]
Research Matters Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2017
Microbes in Soil Are Essential for Life and May Help Mitigate Climate Change By Lisa Howard Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and soil microbial ecology at UC Davis, keeps plastic bags filled with soil on her desk. We are meeting in her office in Plant and the Environmental Sciences Building on campus, not […]
By Lisa Howard Reina Engle-Stone was halfway through her biology degree at Cornell University when she discovered global nutrition. Her introduction was a nutritional epidemiology class, and almost immediately she was hooked. “You could take biology and apply it to other things. I thought, this is great, this is what I want to do,” she […]
