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January 20, 2012 – Canadian Business
“What is it about wine, especially red wine, that makes as much as a third of humanity unable to drink it without getting a headache? We're not talking about a hangover here...”
January 19, 2012 – The Vancouver Sun
“Buying a bad bottle of Chardonnay laced with bitter tannins may soon be a thing of the past if Hennie van Vuuren has his way...”
January 18, 2012 – UBC Wine Research Centre & Australian Wine Research Institute
“The University of British Columbia's (UBC) Wine Research Centre and The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) have announced they have received $585,000 to produce the first assembled genomic sequence of the Chardonnay grape...”
January 11, 2012 – The Globe and Mail
“With holiday merrymaking (and, one hopes, hangovers) a fading memory, moderation is on the menu in many homes. You can ban alcohol, but that penance is too severe for some of us. A more enticing solution: lower-alcohol wines. Not de-alcoholized, but bottles naturally imbued with, say, 12.5 per cent or less..”
November 21, 2011 – Maclean's Magazine
“For 15 years now, Hennie van Vuuren has been building an army—one yeast cell at a time—to make the world a better, safer place for fellow wine lovers, a world without headaches and other nasty things.”
January 1, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
“Some of them have already dazzled. Others are just beginning. But they've all stirred up expectations of much more to come: Here are six Canadians who could change the world this year and beyond.”
November 2010 – Air Canada enRoute Magazine
“To take winemaking into the 21st Century, UBC scientists have come up with ways to genetically enhance the process, putting Canada on the scientific wine map and giving vintners the potential to consistently churn out great bottles.”
October 1, 2009 - New $3.4 Million Grape and Wine Genomics Project Launched
On the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Wine Research Centre at the University of British Columbia, held on September 9, 2009, Genome Canada announced the launch of "Grape and Wine Genomics", an international wine genomics research and development program with an investment of $3.4 million. The multi-national project is led by Drs. Steven Lund and Hennie van Vuuren of the UBC Wine Research Centre. Other participants include Dr. Joerg Bohlmann from the Michael Smith Laboratories at UBC, Dr. Vivien Measday of the UBC Wine Research Centre, Drs. Michael Howlett and David Laycock from Simon Fraser University, Dr. Christopher Owens from the US Department of Agriculture, Dr. Paul Yager from the University of Washington, Dr. Sue Abrams from the Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatchewan, Dr. George van der Merwe from the University of Guelph in Ontario and BC wineries Calona Vineyards and Poplar Grove Winery.
July 21, 2008
- New $5 Million International Wine Genomics Project Launched
Penticton, BC - On the occasion of the 9th Annual Enology &
Viticulture
Conference and Tradeshow sponsored by the British Columbia Wine
Grape Council,
Genome BC is pleased to announce the launch of WineGen, a unique
international
wine genomics research and development program with an investment
of $5 million.
The multi-national project is led by Drs. Hennie van Vuuren and
Steve Lund of
the University of British Columbia Wine Research Centre and Drs.
Richard Gardner
from the University of Auckland, and Michael Trought of the
Marlborough Wine
Research Centre in New Zealand. Other participants include Dr.
Chris Owens from
the US Department of Agriculture, Dr. Terrence van Rooyen, Niagara
College in
Ontario and BC wineries Calona Vineyards and Poplar Grove Winery.
February 28, 2008 - (Event) 2nd Annual Uncorked: the Brand Behind the Label
The BC Chapter of the American Marketing Association (BCAMA) is proud to
present Uncorked: the brand behind the label.
March 12, 2007 - Malolactic
Yeast ML01 - The Facts.
By Dr. Hennie JJ van Vuuren.
March 28, 2006 - Dr. Joerg Bohlmann, Associate in the Wine Research Centre, has received the prestigious 2005 E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship. These Fellowships were established in memory of Dr. Edgar William Richard Steacie, an outstanding chemist and research leader who made major contributions to the development of science in Canada during and immediately following the Second World War. They are awarded to enhance the career development of outstanding and highly promising university faculty who are earning a strong international reputation for original research.
February 10, 2006 - Dr. Steven Lund and Dr. Joerg Bohlmann published a Perspectives article on the role of grape volatiles in determining berry quality in a Special Issue on plant volatiles in Science magazine.
February 8, 2006 - The malolactic wine yeast, ML01, and the urea-degrading yeast engineered in Dr. Hennie van Vuuren's laboratory both
received "Generally regarded As Safe Status (GRAS)" from the US FDA. These are the first genetically enhanced wine yeasts that enjoy GRAS status.
December, 2004 - Ice Wine, National Sciences and Engineering, Research Council of Canada
During the holidays, you may well decide to toast the New Year with a glass of champagne or drink some wine with your turkey, but how about sipping some ice wine with your
fruitcake? "Ice wine is an intense wine," says Dr. Hennie J.J. van Vuuren, Director of the Wine Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. "It's a truly exquisite
wine, but for producers, making it reliably and in sufficient quality is a major challenge." Read
the complete news article.
June 1, 2004 - Dr. Vivien Measday received the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Investigator Scholar Award for her studies on the role of the budding yeast kinetochore in chromosome segregation and checkpoint response.
January 21, 2004 - Dr. Martin Godbout, President & CEO of Genome Canada, announced the approval of three new large-scale genomics research
projects for a total value of $17 million, half of which will be provided by Genome Canada and the other half by Genoma España. Dr. Steven Lund,
co-Project Leader in Canada, and Dr. José Miguel Martínez Zapater, co-Project Leader in Spain, will share $6.2 million on
the GrapeGen Project (www.grapegen.org) from April 2004 through March 2007. The funds in BC are managed by Genome BC. GrapeGen will access
commercial vineyards in Osoyoos, BC, and the Murcia province in Spain and use advanced molecular tools to characterize genomic mechanisms
underlying ripening and quality components of wine and table grapes under diffuse sun versus shaded conditions.
Oct 1, 2003 - Dr. Vivien Measday was appointed a Canada Research Chair in Enology and Yeast Genomics.
January - October 2003 - FEMS Yeast Research Most downloaded articles. See complete listing. The top two articles for the term January to October 2003 included:
1. Daniel J. Erasmus, George K. van der Merwe and Hennie J.J. van Vuuren
Genome-wide expression analyses: Metabolic adaptation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to high sugar stress FEMS Yeast Research, 3 (2003) 375-399
2.Virginia D. Marks, George K. van der Merwe and Hennie J.J. van Vuuren
Transcriptional profiling of wine yeast in fermenting grape juice: regulatory effect of diammonium phosphate FEMS Yeast Research, 3 (2003) 269-287 |
