Demi Perry received the 2018 ASEV Eastern Section Best Student Oral Presentation – Enology award for her talk on deodorizing Concord grape juice. Not bad for someone just getting started on their PhD! https://www.winesandvines.com/newsbriefs/article/201137/Awards-and-scholarships-from-ASEV-East  

Congratulations Beth on receiving the Best Student Oral Presentation – Viticulture award at the 2018 American Society of Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting for your talk “Sour Grapes, Indeed! Malic Acid Increases in Certain Vitis spp. during Maturation” http://www.asev.org/asev-platform/2018-best-student-presentation-award-winners Also, congratulations on getting married (and having a newly hyphenated name)!

A few months overdue . . . congratulations to Madeleine for winning the Society of Flavor Chemists’ William F. Jaggard Memorial Scholarship . . . $2000 award plus an invitation to speak at the annual SFC meeting.

Noam joins our lab following completing his PhD at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Noam will work on malic acid and metabolism in wild grapes as part of the USDA funded VitisGen2 project.

Best wishes to the the latest MPS recipients from the Sacks lab –  Colleen Szeto (next step: PhD program at the University of Adelaide), Danielle Noce (next step: harvest hopping), and Kevin Barthelemy (next step: the family farm in California)

Congratulations to Beth for receiving a 2017 AWS Educational Foundation scholarship. Spend your $3500 award wisely! https://www.awsef.org/scholarships

Congratulations to Jill for her successful defense of her thesis entitled “Mass Spectrometry for the High-throughput Quantification and Mechanistic Investigation of Odor-active volatiles in grapes and wine”. She’s off to California to continue work in the world of analytical wine chemistry.

Our high-throughput volatile phenotyping approach based on thin-film headspace extraction followed by ambient ionization MS was funded by a new USDA grant program, PAPM EAGER. https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1011470-papm-eager-solid-phase-mesh-enhanced-sorption-from-headspace-spmesh–a-platform-for-high-throughput-phenotyping-or-spatially-resolved-studies-of-trace-volatiles.html

Congratulations to Casey on finishing your MPS degree and accepting a job as Assistant Winemaker at Scheid Vineyards in Salinas, CA https://www.scheidvineyards.com/! Safe travels.

The paper describes a new way to use ambient ionization MS for trace volatile analyses. Well done! http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b01787