Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis
Director, Weimer Micro Lab
Publications:
4 books; 159 manuscripts; 22 Book Chapters; 6 patents
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UCDavis Microbiome Special Research Program
Education:
- Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne, Biochemistry & Genetics, Melbourne, Australia – 1991-1992
- PhD, Nutrition & Food Sciences – Microbiology, Utah State University, Logan, UT – 1990
- BS, Microbiology & Immunology (Honors), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ – 1986
Awards:
- FDA Food Safety Grand Challenge Finalist (1/5 from over 100 applicants) 2015
- IBM Shared University Research Award 2015, 2016
- Agilent Thought Leader (DNA modification, genome restricted mass ID) 2010-2013
- HHSInnovate – 100K pathogen genome sequencing project 2012
- Best agronomic paper – Canadian Agronomic Society 2010
- Researcher of the Year – USU, Dept. of Nutrition & Food Sciences 2008
- Inducted into Academic Keys Who’s Who in Agriculture Higher Education 2006
- Inducted into Empire Who’s Who 2003
- Inducted into International Who’s Who Historical Society 2002
- Winder Chair in Food Science – USU, Nutrition and Food Sciences 1996, 2001 to 2004
- Researcher of the Year – USU, College of Family Life 1995, 1999
- President – Institute for Food Technology, Bonneville Section 1995
- B.S. – graduated with Honors 1986
Lab Projects:
- Molecular ecology of Salmonella
- Molecular diagnostics development using
- Lipids, artificial cells, and genomics
- Microbiome in health & disease
- Epigenomics in bacteria
- Host/microbe association dynamics
- Bacterial metabolism in host/microbe association and infection
- Natural antibacterial compound discovery
- Regulatory networks for integration of multi-omics data and network modeling
- 100K pathogen genome project
People in the lab:
- Arabyan, Narine – Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology
- Chen, Poyin – Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology
- Chin, Ning – MS Candidate, Forensic Science
- Huang, Carol – Senior Research Specialist
- Kong, Nguyet – Laboratory Manager, (Sr. Research Associate)
- Story, Dylan – Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow
- Weis, Alli – Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology