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David A. Mills is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, nursing, and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist has a strong focus on subfields such as nutrition and dietetics, molecular biology, food science, physiology, and genetics. Their work concentrates on key topics including gut microbiota and health, probiotics and fermented foods, infant nutrition and health, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, food composition and properties, diet and metabolism studies, and digestive system and related health.

David A. Mills has been published frequently in journals such as:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nutrients
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Food Chemistry

Significant recent papers authored by or including David A. Mills encompass the following:

  • "Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma," 2020, Nature Medicine
  • "Indole-3-lactic acid associated with Bifidobacterium-dominated microbiota significantly decreases inflammation in intestinal epithelial cells," 2020, BMC Microbiology
  • "A nonenzymatic method for cleaving polysaccharides to yield oligosaccharides for structural analysis," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Association of Diet and Antimicrobial Resistance in Healthy U.S. Adults," 2022, mBio
  • "Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance genes in retail raw milk," 2020, Microbiome

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Carlito B. Lebrilla
  • Diana H. Taft
  • Karen M. Kalanetra
  • Danielle G. Lemay
  • J. Bruce German

Best Publications

  • Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing.

    Nicholas A Bokulich;Sathish Subramanian;Jeremiah J Faith;Dirk Gevers

  • Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria

    K. Makarova;A. Slesarev;Y. Wolf;A. Sorokin

  • Microbial biogeography of wine grapes is conditioned by cultivar, vintage, and climate

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;John H. Thorngate;Paul M. Richardson;David A. Mills

  • The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome.

    D. A. Sela;J. Chapman;A. Adeuya;J. H. Kim

  • The Soil Microbiome Influences Grapevine-Associated Microbiota

    Iratxe Zarraonaindia;Iratxe Zarraonaindia;Sarah M. Owens;Sarah M. Owens;Pamela Weisenhorn;Kristin West

  • Human milk glycobiome and its impact on the infant gastrointestinal microbiota

    Angela M. Zivkovic;J. Bruce German;Carlito B. Lebrilla;David A. Mills

  • Sialylated Milk Oligosaccharides Promote Microbiota-Dependent Growth in Models of Infant Undernutrition

    Mark R. Charbonneau;David O'Donnell;Laura V. Blanton;Sarah M. Totten

  • Bacteroides in the Infant Gut Consume Milk Oligosaccharides via Mucus-Utilization Pathways

    Angela Marcobal;Mariana Barboza;Erica D. Sonnenburg;Nicholas Pudlo

  • Consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by gut-related microbes.

    Angela Marcobal;Mariana Barboza;John W. Froehlich;David E. Block

  • Improved Selection of Internal Transcribed Spacer-Specific Primers Enables Quantitative, Ultra-High-Throughput Profiling of Fungal Communities

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;David A. Mills

  • Direct profiling of the yeast dynamics in wine fermentations.

    Luca Simone Cocolin;L. F. Bisson;D. A. Mills

  • Nursing our microbiota: molecular linkages between bifidobacteria and milk oligosaccharides

    David A. Sela;David A. Mills

  • Prebiotics: why definitions matter.

    Robert W. Hutkins;Janina A. Krumbeck;Laure B. Bindels;Patrice D. Cani

  • Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis: champion colonizer of the infant gut

    Mark A. Underwood;J. Bruce German;Carlito B. Lebrilla;David A. Mills

  • Diet shapes the gut microbiome of pigs during nursing and weaning.

    Steven A. Frese;Kent Parker;C. Chris Calvert;David A. Mills

  • Breast Milk Oligosaccharides: Structure-Function Relationships in the Neonate

    Jennifer T. Smilowitz;Carlito B. Lebrilla;David A. Mills;J. Bruce German

  • Maternal fucosyltransferase 2 status affects the gut bifidobacterial communities of breastfed infants

    Zachery T. Lewis;Sarah M. Totten;Jennifer T. Smilowitz;Mina Popovic

  • Associations among Wine Grape Microbiome, Metabolome, and Fermentation Behavior Suggest Microbial Contribution to Regional Wine Characteristics

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;Thomas S. Collins;Chad Masarweh;Greg Allen

  • Stool Microbiota and Vaccine Responses of Infants

    M. Nazmul Huda;M. Nazmul Huda;Zachery Lewis;Karen M. Kalanetra;Mamunur Rashid

  • Genome analysis of Bifidobacterium bifidum PRL2010 reveals metabolic pathways for host-derived glycan foraging

    Francesca Turroni;Francesca Bottacini;Elena Foroni;Imke Mulder

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlito B. Lebrilla
Carlito B. Lebrilla University of California, Davis
J. Bruce German
J. Bruce German University of California, Davis
Luca Simone Cocolin
Luca Simone Cocolin University of Turin
Helen E. Raybould
Helen E. Raybould University of California, Davis
Charles B. Stephensen
Charles B. Stephensen United States Department of Agriculture
Majid Mirmiran
Majid Mirmiran University of Isfahan
Larry L. McKay
Larry L. McKay University of Minnesota
Daniel J. Tancredi
Daniel J. Tancredi University of California, Davis
Ian F Korf
Ian F Korf University of California, Davis

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