BFTV Cluster News

Exit Seminar - Zatil Afrah, September 16, 2024

An Exit Seminar will be held Monday, September 16, 2024 at 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm PDT.

In-person in room 1207 Robert Mondavi Institute South or via Zoom.

Poll Zhang wins IIFH Undergrad Fellowship; presents at Summer Conference

Poll Zhang, an undergraduate in Dr. Alyson Mitchell's lab, presented in the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Center Symposium. Poll received an undergraduate fellowship from the Innovation Institute for Food and Health. This was a six-week fellowship that resulted in her talk, titled “Almond Shells: An Innovative Solution for Winery Wastewater and Their Potential as a Health-Enhancing Food Supplement”, which you can see her presenting in the pictures below.

Exit Seminar - Minami Ogawa, September 11, 2024, 12:00 pm.

Food Science and Technology

An Exit Seminar will be held Wednesday, September 11th at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT.

In-person in room 3215 Robert Mondavi Institute South, or you can attend remotely by Zoom.

Exit Seminar - Maany Ramanan, August 23, 2024, 10:00 am.

Food Science and Technology

An Exit Seminar will be held Friday, August 23rd at 10:00 am PDT.

In-person in room 1207 Robert Mondavi Institute South, or you can attend remotely by Zoom.

From Waste to Taste - The Transformative Power of Fermented Foods

Food Science and Technology

In this interview and video conducted for News-Medical.net at Pittcon Conference and Exposition 2024 in San Diego, FST Professor Maria Marco discusses her research on the health benefits, safety, and waste reduction potential of fermented foods, and the microbial processes involved in their production.

Read the full interview, and watch the video below.

FST at IAFP and IFT FIRST, July 14-17, 2024

Food Science and Technology

Several of our Food Science and Technology faculty, graduate students and leadership board members and will be participating at the upcoming In-Person IAFP Annual Meeting 2024, to be held July 14-17th, 2024 in Long Beach, California.

Research Profile: Block Lab

Viticulture and Enology

The Block lab is working in several areas related to wine. First, we are continuing our work with the Oberholster lab trying to gain a deeper understanding of phenolic extraction in red wines to be able to control the finished wine phenolic profile more efficiently. Over the last decade, we have examined the impact of cap and juice temperature on phenolic extraction, as well as the impact of cap management (also in conjunction with E. & J.

More Than a Taste Test - What It’s Like to be on a Trained Sensory Panel

Food Science and Technology

Pieces of dried mango rest on the bottom of a black opaque goblet. Next to it, another glass contains apricot jam. Leticia Cardoso Madureira Tavares, a second-year Ph.D. student in biosystems engineering, brings the glasses up to her nose one at a time to take a sniff.