Location: Dairy and Functional Foods Research
Project Number: 8072-30600-007-005-N
Project Type: Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jun 1, 2026
End Date: Sep 30, 2027
Objective:
1. To investigate novel prebiotics that inhibit food-borne pathogen (such as Listeria monocytogenes, E. coli O157:H7) adhesion and invasion while contributing to immune modulation.
2. To explore the effects of dietary ingredients and exogenous bacteria on the ecology and metabolism of the human gut microbiota.
Approach:
A combination of approaches such as cell culture systems, flow cytometry and cell sorting instruments, microplate readers, fluorescence microscopy and imaging systems, anaerobic fermentation bioreactors, and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) will be used to analyze functional food components.