Dr. Linda Bisson is a trained yeast geneticist who focuses on sugar catabolism and fermentation. She is a retired professor and geneticist from the University of California at Davis.[1]

Linda Frances Bisson
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
ThesisStudies on thymidylate metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1980)

Education and career

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Bisson has an undergraduate degree [when?][1] from San Francisco State University and, in 1975, Bisson her masters' degree from there while working on the bacteria Pseudomonas.[2] She then earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley where she worked on metabolism of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.[3] Following her Ph.D, she was a postdoc at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at University of California at Davis as an assistant professor in 1985.[1] 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.[4]

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.”[5] The textbook won the Le Prix en Oenologie from the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin in 1998.[6]

Awards

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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.[6] In 2011, she received the James M. Craig Lectureship Award from Oregon State University.[7] In 2014, she was honored with the American Society for Enology and Viticulture's (ASEV) highest honor, the Merit Award,[8] and was the ASEV Honorary Research Lecturer in 2000. She also received the University of California, Davis Charles P. Nash Prize.[9]

Selected publications

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  • Bisson, Linda F.; Waterhouse, Andrew L.; Ebeler, Susan E.; Walker, M. Andrew; Lapsley, James T. (August 2002). "The present and future of the international wine industry". Nature. 418 (6898): 696–699. Bibcode:2002Natur.418..696B. doi:10.1038/nature01018. PMID 12167877. S2CID 4383878.
  • Bisson, L. F.; Fraenkel, D. G. (1 March 1983). "Involvement of kinases in glucose and fructose uptake by Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80 (6): 1730–1734. Bibcode:1983PNAS...80.1730B. doi:10.1073/pnas.80.6.1730. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 393677. PMID 6300872.
  • Bisson, Linda F. (1 January 1999). "Stuck and Sluggish Fermentations". American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. 50 (1): 107–119. doi:10.5344/ajev.1999.50.1.107. ISSN 0002-9254. S2CID 87840387.
  • Boulton, Roger B.; Singleton, Vernon L.; Bisson, Linda F.; Kunkee, Ralph E. (1999). Principles and Practices of Winemaking. New York. ISBN 978-0834212701.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Linda Bissons Contributions to Science and Industry Honored at UCD ..." www.winebusiness.com. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  2. ^ Bisson, Linda Frances (1975). Factors influencing the stability of dissimilation plasmids in Pseudomonas (Thesis). OCLC 6616380.
  3. ^ Bisson, Linda Frances (1980). Studies on thymidylate metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Thesis). OCLC 80024249.
  4. ^ "Wines & Vines - New Venue Unites ASEV and Eastern Section". www.winesandvines.com. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  5. ^ "ASEV to Recognize Dr. Bisson with Highest Honor in June - American Society for Enology and Viticulture". American Society for Enology and Viticulture. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  6. ^ a b "Linda Bisson - UC Davis ADVANCE". UC Davis ADVANCE. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  7. ^ "Linda F. Bisson | Viticulture and Enology". wineserver.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
  8. ^ "ASEV to Recognize Dr. Bisson with Highest Honor at the National Conference in Austin - American Society for Enology and Viticulture". American Society for Enology and Viticulture. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  9. ^ "Linda Bisson Wins Charles P. Nash Prize". UC Davis ADVANCE. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
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