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
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Congratulations to Casey Di Cesare – finished degree, new job!
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.
Jill’s SPMESH paper accepted to Analytical Chemistry!
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
Wine chemistry textbook – now released!
Gavin Sacks has recently published a new textbook, Understanding Wine Chemistry, in collaboration with Andrew Waterhouse (UC Davis) and David Jeffery (University of Adelaide). Much of the content was inspired by material from Gavin’s class on wine and grape flavor chemistry at Cornell (VIEN 4400). The publisher, Wiley, was kind enough to sponsor a book Read More…
Welcome to a new group member – Ted Russin from Culinary Institute of America
Welcome to Ted Russin, who is starting a PhD in the Sacks Lab. Ted has extensive experience in polysaccharides and gums, and is currently a faculty member at Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park. http://www.ciachef.edu/ted-russin/.
Congratulations to Greg and Lindsay – new jobs!
Congratulations to Greg Dlubac (MPS ’15), who will be starting as Assistant Winemaker at Millbrook Winery in the Hudson Valley. Greg recently returned from a harvest internship in the Hunter Valley of Australia, so this will be a change in weather And, congratulations to Lindsay Springer (PhD ’16), who has started as an Enologist at Read More…
Lindsay Springer wins Best Student Oral Presentation – Enology at 2015 ASEV Meeting
This is Lindsay’s second award for Best Oral Presentation at ASEV. Her talk was titled, “Limits on red wine tannin extraction and addition Part II: The role of pathogenesis-related proteins in terroir”. Congratulations Lindsay! http://www.asev.org/best-student-presentation-awards
Lindsay wins ACS-AGFD Grad Student Symposium Award at Spring Denver meeting
Congratulation Lindsay! http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/lindsay-springer-wins-top-grad-student-food-chemistry-prize
Patricia Howe has two publications accepted to Am J En Vit
Pat has two articles in press for the August issue of AJEV, one with Jussara Coelho (visiting scientist) on headspace SO2 measurements, http://www.ajevonline.org/content/early/2015/04/15/ajev.2015.14125.abstract and the other with Sue Ebeler (UC Davis) evaluating interlaboratory proficiency in common wine analyses. http://www.ajevonline.org/content/early/2015/04/15/ajev.2015.14119.abstract And, her thesis was approved by her PhD committee, so she’s on track to graduate in Read More…
Kwasniewski paper on sulfur residues wins 2015 Best Paper Award in AJEV!
A paper on sulfur residue persistence by former PhD student Misha Kwasniewski, Gavin Sacks, and Wayne Wilcox (Plant Pathology, Cornell) was selected as the 2015 Best Viticulture Paper in the American Journal of Enology & Viticulture. The award ceremony will be held at the June 2015 ASEV Meeting in Potland, OR. http://www.asev.org/best-paper-awards