New grant underway – USDA Plant Animal Phenotyping Methods (PAPM) for high throughput volatile work

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

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…

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…

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…