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Industry and academia - a perfect match.

My career developed very differently from those of most academic researchers. After school I worked for six years in industries that employed yeast to manufacture ethanol and beer. At university… Click to show full abstract

My career developed very differently from those of most academic researchers. After school I worked for six years in industries that employed yeast to manufacture ethanol and beer. At university I was trained as a microbiologist with very little training in molecular biology. I retrained in 1987 in molecular yeast genetics and focused on genetic engineering of industrial yeasts to minimise the production of spoilage compounds in wine and ethyl carbamate, a carcinogen, in wine. The malolactic yeast ML01 and the urea-degrading yeast were the first genetically enhanced yeasts that obtained US FDA approval for commercial applications. Apart from applied research, I was fascinated by classic molecular yeast genetic studies using sophisticated techniques such as transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Doing research at the University of British Columbia was stimulating and exciting, we established a core microarray and metabolomics facilities that were used by many scientists at UBC and hospitals in Vancouver. I also established a state-of-the-art Wine Library that was used to study aging of wines produced in British Columbia. Finally, I have been fortunate to know and collaborate with leading yeast scientists who motivated me.

Keywords: academia perfect; research; industry academia; yeast; biology; perfect match

Journal Title: FEMS yeast research
Year Published: 2022

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