8:00am – 8:30am Registration - Coffee and Pastries
8:30 Introductory Remarks: Anita Oberholster
8:45 Vineyard Environmental Footprints: A case study in Lodi and Napa:
Kerri Steenwerth
9:10 Flash talk ([GAR+] A Novel Prion Affects Fermentation Dynamics of Wine Yeast Strains: Gordon Walker)
9:15 Exposed canopy during ripening, low yield, and vine balance: how do they impact
methoxypryrazines in fruit?: Mark Matthews
9:40 Flash talk (Tracing grape berry phenolics via in situ phenylalanine label: Alex Chassy)
9:45 Effects of water deficit on water transport physiology of grapevines:
Andrew McElrone
10:15am – 10:30am Break
10:30 What do DNA base technologies really tell you?: David Mills
10:55 Flash talk (Analytical Approaches for Targeted Analysis of Volatiles in Grapes and Wines: Anna Hjelmeland)
11:00 Geospatial Variation in Grape Quality: Problem or Paradigm?: David Smart
11:25 Flash talk (Analysis of lipid compositional changes during alcoholic fermentation in industrial yeast strains with varying ethanol tolerance: Clark Henderson)
11:30 Breeding disease resistant winegrapes: Andy Walker
12:00pm – 1:00pm Hosted Lunch - Freeborn Hall
1:00 The effect of filtration on the sensory properties of red and white wines:
David Block
1:25 Flash talk (Assessing Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Vineyard: Effects of Cover Cropping and Conservation Tillage: David Smart)
1:30 How wine blending affects the sensory properties of red wine: Helene Hopfer
1:55 Flash talk (Effect of Altitude on Anthocyanin Concentration: Fernando Buscema)
2:00 The Cypress Semiconductor Wireless Fermenters - 1st year performance and next steps: Roger Boulton
2:30pm – 2:45pm Break
2:45 Flavor chemistry in grapes and wines: Sue Ebeler
3:10 Flash talk (Evaluating the Spatial Heterogeneity of Phenolic Profiles in a Pilot-Scale Red Wine Fermentation: Max Reichwage)
3:15 Recent studies of the effect of closure oxygen transfer rate (OTR) on wine composition: Andrew Waterhouse
3:40 Flash talk (Next-generation Sequencing Reveals Massive Bacterial Diversity in Botrytized Wines: Nickolas Bokulich)
3:45 Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building update: David Block
4:15pm – 5:00pm Poster Session / Wine Social