Dr. Linda Bisson is a trained yeast

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who focuses on sugar catabolism and fermentation. She is a retired professor and geneticist from the University of California at Davis.

Education and career

Bisson has an undergraduate degree from

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

and, in 1975, Bisson her masters' degree from there while working on the bacteria ''

Pseudomonas ''Pseudomonas'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae in the class Gammaproteobacteria. The 348 members of the genus demonstrate a great deal of metabolic diversity and consequently are able to colonize a ...

.'' She then earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

where she worked on metabolism of the yeast

Saccharomyces cerevisiae ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' () (brewer's yeast or baker's yeast) is a species of yeast (single-celled fungal microorganisms). The species has been instrumental in winemaking, baking, and brewing since ancient times. It is believed to have be ...

. Following her Ph.D, she was a postdoc at

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before joining the faculty at University of California at Davis as an

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in 1985. She was the Viticulture and Enology Chair from 1990 to 1995 and then the Maynard A. Amerine Endowed Chair in Viticulture and Enology from 1997 to 2008. She was the science editor of the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (AJEV) for 15 years and the co-author of the text book, “Principles and Practices of Winemaking.” The textbook won the Le Prix en Oenologie from the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin in 1998.

Awards

In 2002, she received the Excellence in Teaching Award from UC Davis Extension; in 2004, she received the Excellence in Education Award from Associated Students of UCD; and in 2012, she was awarded the DEVO Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2011, she received the James M. Craig Lectureship Award from

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. In 2014, she was honored with the American Society for Enology and Viticulture's (ASEV) highest honor, the Merit Award, and was the ASEV Honorary Research Lecturer in 2000. She also received the University of California, Davis Charles P. Nash Prize.

Selected publications

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