Dr.
Robert L. Wample is
the Director of the Viticulture and Enology Research Center
and Chair of the Department of Viticulture and Enology at California State
University, Fresno. He accepted this
position in 2000, after the university conducted an international search.
Prior to joining Fresno State, he held the viticulture research position at Washington State University’s
Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, WA (1987) and was named the Chateau Ste Michelle Distinguished Professor of
Viticulture (1995- 2000).
Dr. Sayed A. Badr is a professor of viticulture in the Department of Viticulture and Enology. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from U.C. Davis in 1970. After over thirty-five years of service to Fresno State, Dr. Badr began participating in the early retirement program (FERP) in 2005, which allows faculty to teach one semester each year for up to five years. He continues to contribute to the program by teaching viticulture each fall. His areas of expertise are in the evaluation and development of growing techniques for new table grape varieties, in grapevine physiology and nutrition, and in the evaluation of rootstocks for table grapes.
Professor
Kenneth C. Fugelsang
received
his master in Zoology and Botany from California State University, Fresno in
1972 and is the current winemaster and professor for the
department. In 1990 he was awarded the Claude Laval
Research Award for Innovative Technology and was also honored by the College
(formerly School) of
Agricultural Sciences and Technology as the Salgo-Noren recipient for excellence
in teaching and advising.
Dr.
Sanliang Gu received his Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State
University in 1992. Dr. Gu currently holds the Ricchiuti Chair of Viticulture at
the Viticulture and Enology Research Center, serving as a research scientist and
an associate professor of viticulture. He
was an Assistant Research Professor of Fruit Science for five years for the
Department of Fruit Science at Southwest Missouri State University in Mountain
Grove, Missouri. His areas of
expertise are in plant nutrition, plant-water relations, water stress, cold
hardiness, cultivar evaluation, trellis systems and canopy management.
Dr. Roy Thornton is a professor of enology in the Department of Viticulture and Enology. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Microbiology from Strathclyde University, Scotland in 1970. He taught at Massey University in New Zealand for 20 years and then at Indiana University in Kokomo, Indiana for three years before joining the E & J Gallo Winery as a Senior Research Microbiologist for five years. His research focus is on wine microbiology with emphasis on wine yeast genetics and physiology and on the breeding of wine yeast by selective hybridization for improved winemaking properties. He also focuses on the manipulation of wine flavor by the use of different wine yeasts, on the interaction of wine yeasts and bacteria and on the real time monitoring of fermentation by flow cytometry. He has additional interests in brewing and fuel ethanol production.
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