Position Offer: Doctoral Grant, research on wine yeasts

New position offer for Doctoral Grant in our Wine Biotechnology group

The research subject is "Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces interactions during alcoholic fermentation of grape must"

Application is open until 15th November 2020. More details of this grant in:

https://www.sgr.urv.cat/cgi-bin/programes/application/detall.cgi?conv=2020PMF-PIPF-&ordre=49&idioma=ENG

and information of the Resolution in:

https://www.urv.cat/en/research/support/programmes/urv/programa-marti-franques/pipf/2020-general-grants/

New article on meta-taxonomics of wine microbes

High-Throughput Sequencing approach to analyze the effect of aging time and barrel usage on the microbial composition of red wines. 

Dimitrios Kioroglou, Albert Mas, M. Carmen Portillo

Frontiers in Microbiology 11, 562560, 2020:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.562560

   This is the first meta-taxonomic study on microbial communities during wine aging using high-throughput sequencing (HTS) techniques. 
   The wines obtained from two different grape varieties were aged at two different cellars and compared based on time of wine aging in the barrels (12 months), previous usage of the barrels, and differences between wine aging in oak barrels or glass bottles. 

   The results show that the microorganism composition of barrel-aged wines was similar at both cellars and hint at the possibility of a common and stable microbiota after aging in the absence of exogenous alterations.