Dallas Lab
Dallas Lab
Unraveling the biology of human and animal milk
We specialize in the following areas
Bioactive milk peptides
Identifying novel bioactive protein fragments—peptides—in human and bovine milk
Identifying which milk peptides are present across the digestive tract (infants and adults)
Bioactive milk proteins
Determining which milk proteins survive intact across digestion, enabling them to exert function throughout the gut
Improving protein preservation across milk processing
Improving preterm infant health
Assessing digestive deficiencies in preterm infants
Improving processing of human milk to enhance bioactivity
Improving adult health
Assessing the survival of functional bovine milk proteins and peptides across adult digestion
Assessing the effect of bovine milk proteins and peptides on health (e.g., immune system, microbiome)
Improving processing of bovine milk components to enhance bioactivity
Our approach
Clinical studies
- Collecting digestive fluids from infants and adults
- Feeding studies
Digestion models
- Static and dynamic simulated infant and adult digestion
Structural analysis
- Peptidomics
- proteomics
- Glycopeptidomics
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays
Functional assays
- Immunomodulatory assays (e.g., macrophage cell culture)
- Intestinal cell culture
- Antimicrobial assays
Updates and Good news
An OSLER TL1 fellowship has been awarded to doctoral student Jillien Zukaitis for her research on the bioactive… Read more
Rusty Kuhfeld, MS student in our lab, presented on bitter peptides in cheddar cheese at the American Dairy Science… Read more
Here’s a presentation from Sam Adler, an MS student in the lab on his research project on glycomacropeptide from whey…