Yeasts in the UCDVEN and UCDFST collections are used in research labs at UC Davis, other universities, companies, and government agencies for basic science discoveries, and to develop new products such as food ingredients, chemicals, and consumer products. These yeast cultures in Erlenmeyer flasks are being grown in an incubator in the Boundy-Mills research lab to develop new food ingredients. Photo: Kyria Boundy-Mills

A Century of California Wine Yeast, Reunited

UC Davis Awarded Funding to Merge the Viticulture & Enology Wine Microbe Collection with the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection

For more than sixty years, two of the most important libraries of California microbiology have lived in separate departments on the UC Davis campus. Now, thanks to a grant from the American Vineyard Foundation and Washington State Wine Commission, they're (re)uniting.