Introductory Course to Research in Microbiology

8th-11th July 2024: Introductory Course to Research in Microbiology Professor J.R. Vilanueva, in Valencia, organised by the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM). Deadline for registration 25th March 2024. Click here for information.

Next Congress of Food Microbiology in Cartagena

Next 9th-12th September 2024: XXIII Spanish Congress of Food Microbiology. 

The biannual meeting of Spanish food microbiologists, belonging to the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM), will be hold this time in the atractive historical city of Cartagena, in region of Murcia, southeast Spain. Click here for information: https://xxiiicma2024.es/

Wine Biotechnology Group meeting, 2nd February 2024

Last Friday 2nd February we have celebrated the monthly online meeting of Wine Biotechnology Research Group.

The last results of different projects have been discussed and our colleague Paloma Toraño (predoctoral researcher, in the image) has presented the main results of her PhD work on yeast mannoprotein and their effect on Oenococcus oeni and malolactic fermentation.

Candela Ruiz de Villa's study is URV outstanding news

The URV digital newspaper has published as an outstanding news the study by our colleague Dr Candela Ruiz de Villa on using an unconventional yeast to increase wine quality:

https://diaridigital.urv.cat/en/an-unconventional-yeast-increases-the-quality-of-carbonic-maceration-wine-rose-wine-and-orange-wine/

Part of the team that participated in the study (Fermentation 2023, 9, 12, 1021): Cristina Reguant, Candela Ruiz de Villa and Nicolas Rozès, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Oenology of Tarragona, University Rovira i Virgili