RAVE AGENDA, March 13, 2014
8:30-9:00am Coffee and Registration
Session 1: Anita Oberholster – Moderator, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
9:00-9:05 Welcome and Introductions – Anita Oberholster
9:05-9:15 Department Update – David Block, Department Chair and Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
9:15-9:50 Judging wine quality: Do we need experts, consumers or trained panelists?
- Hildegarde Heymann, Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
9:50-10:25 Plant growth regulators to control berry abscission in grapes
- Matthew Fidelibus, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
10:25-10:40 BREAK
Session 2: Karen Block – Moderator, Industry Relations Manager, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
10:40-11:15 A new era in wine microbiology-routine tracking of all microbes in all places
- David Mills, Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
11:15-12:00 Poster Highlights – Individual Researcher Flash Talks
1) Evan Goldman, Reducing Xiphinema index populations using the resistant rootstock ‘O39-16’: the status of X. index after 20 years, Poster #1.
2) Vidhya Ramakrishnan, Evaluation of red blotch infection on wine fermentations, Poster #2.
3) Claire Heinitz, Variation in ion exclusion among north american vitis with increasing salt stress, and implications for rootstock breeding, Poster #3.
4) Dave Hendrickson, Impact of mechanical harvesting and optical berry sorting on grape and wine composition, Poster #4.
5) Celeste Arancibia, Molecular characterization of phylloxera present in Argentinean vineyards, Poster #5.
6) Gordon Walker, Impact of the [GAR+] Prion S.cerevisiae Plasma Membrane During Fermentation, Poster #6.
7) Daniel Pap, Genetic mapping of powdery mildew resistence in the wild chinese species, Vitis Piasezkii, Poster #7.
8) Helene Hopfer, Effect of vineyard management on metal content of wine grapes, Poster #8.
12:00–1:40 CATERED LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION
Session 3: Karen Block – Moderator
1:30-2:05 Optimizing vineyard water use through technology
- Andrew McElrone, Research Scientist, USDA-ARS and Assistant Adjunct
Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology
2:05-2:40 The potential of pathogen genomics in breeding for grapevine disease resistance
- Dario Cantu, Assistant Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
2:40-2:50 BREAK
Session 4: Linda Bisson – Moderator, Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
2:50-3:25 Wine maturation tools
- Anita Oberholster, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC Davis
3:25-4:00 The latest on wine oxidation
- Andrew Waterhouse, Professor, Department of Viticulture and Enology, UC
Davis
4:00-4:10 Concluding Remarks – Anita Oberholster