Faculty

Avocado Oil Short Course, August 4 - 9th, 2022

FST's Dr. Selina Wang and three instructors from New Zealand, pictured at right, are pleased to present their first Avocado Oil Short Course for FST Cooperative Extension. The course includes six pre-recorded lectures and one live-Zoom question-and-answer session with the instructors (with a choice of three dates in August for the Q&A session).

Kyria Boundy-Mills on UC Davis LIVE - Biodiversity Museums

FST's Dr. Kyria Boundy-Mills, Professional Research Microbiologist and curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, was one of three guests featured in the UC Davis LIVE: Biodiversity Museums interview. The Zoom livestream from March 31, 2022, hosted by Soterios Johnson, focused on the collections recently showcased on Biodiversity Museum Day, which was held March 6th on campus. 

Fermented Food Survey - EATLAC

Are you a fermented food fanatic?  A kimchi lover?  A kombucha connoisseur?  Olive obsessed? Passionate about pickles?

Participate in a short survey about fermented foods and be entered into a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card.

Field to Bench interview by Craft Maltsters Guild features Glen Fox and Maany Ramanan

In the first Craft Maltsters Guild's "Field to Bench" series for 2022 (the series features the people behind some of the world's leading malt research), FST's Glen Fox and Maany Ramanan (UC Brewing doctoral candidate) talk about Fox's background studying barley quality, his current research focus on starch structure, and how it impacts wort and beer quality, as well as Maany's current research project - assessing the effect of environment and genotype on malt quality.