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| Department Heads | Professors | Extension Personnel | Facilities Personnel | Department Heads Anita N. Azarenko
Department Head and Professor, Horticulture Research Interests • Integrated and organic tree fruit farming systems
• Soil biology, root growth, nitrogen cycling and overall tree performance
• Tree fruit and nut biology, physiology, and floral biology |  | Robert J. McGorrin
Department Head and Jacobs-Root Professor, Food Science and Technology Research Interests • Flavor chemistry and trace volatile analysis
• Chemistry and interactions among flavor and food components
• Identification of key aroma compounds in dairy and food products
• Effects of processing and packaging on flavor generation and deterioration
• Additional research interests are in food analysis, chromatography and separations (GC, HPLC, CE), spectrometry (GC/MS, GC/MS/MS, GC/IR), and natural products chemistry |  |
Professors
Alan T. Bakalinsky
Associate Professor, Food Science and Technology Research Interests • Characterization and improvement of industrial yeasts with emphasis on wine strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Fermentation processes for production of biofuels, value-added products |  | James A. Kennedy
Assistant Professor, Food Science and Technology Research Interests • Natural products of grapes and wine in relation to wine quality improvement
• Condensed tannin chemistry
• Formation of color stable pigments in red wine
• Grape and wine analysis |  | James Osborne
Assistant Professor, Food Science Technology
Extension Enologist Research Interests • Wine Microbiology
• Malolactic fermentation
• Microbial spoilage of wine
• Impact of yeast on wine flavors and aromas
• Wine yeast-bacteria interactions
• Acetaldehyde metabolism by malolactic bacteria and its enological consequences |  | Michael Qian
Assistant Professor, Food Science and Technology Research Interests • Flavor chemistry and technology
• Aroma/flavor compound identification and characterization; flavor compounds chemical/biochemical generation; flavor retention and deterioration during processing and storage
• Flavor chemistry of blackberries, flavor development in transgenic raspberry, strawberry and other small fruits; wine flavor chemistry, off-flavor development in wine, wine grape flavor and flavor precursor development; flavor chemistry of Chinese liquor; cheese flavor development, and the impact of high pressure processing on flavor; and nutraceutical components in dairy |  | Patty Skinkis
Assistant Professor, Horticulture
Viticulture Extension Specialist
Research Interests • Vine Physiology
• Impact of vineyard management on berry components
• Canopy management, training systems
• Vine carbohydrates, nutrition and growth patterns
• Integrated management systems, integrated pest management (IPM) |  | Vaughn Walton
Assistant Professor, Horticulture Research Interests • Horticultural Entomology that meets the needs of the Pacific Northwest
• Mites in vineyards that are thought to cause short shoot syndrome
• Filbertworm in Hazelnuts
• Black Vine Weevil
• Providing environmentally sustainable and minimal impact pest management strategies for agriculturalists in Oregon |  |
Extension Personnel
Facilities Personnel Jeff Clawson
Faculty Research Assistant, Pilot Plant Operations |  | Scott Robbins
Senior Faculty Research Assistant, Woodhall Vineyard and Horticulture Farms Manager |  |
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