Dr. Kyria Boundy-Mills, curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection in the Food Science and Technology department at UC Davis, received an award of $579,246 from the National Science Foundation. This will fund the transfer of eminent yeast taxonomist Dr. Marc-André Lachance’s collection of 6,000 yeast strains from the University of Western Ontario to UC Davis, expanding the Phaff collection catalog by over 50%.
Graduate student Tonio Garay won First Prize in the Robert Mondavi Institute student poster competition, for his poster titled, “Towards a yeast based multivalue technology platform”
