Linda Bisson
Dr. Linda Bisson is a trained yeast geneticist who focuses on sugar catabolism and fermentation. She is a retired professor and geneticist from the University of California at Davis. Education and career Bisson has an undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University and, in 1975, Bisson her masters' degree from there while working on the bacteria Pseudomonas. She then earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California, Berkeley where she worked on metabolism of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Following her Ph.D, she was a postdoc at Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at University of California at Davis as an assistant professor in 1985. She was the Viticulture and Enology Chair from 1990 to 1995 and then the Maynard A. Amerine Endowed Chair in Viticulture and Enology from 1997 to 2008. She was the science editor of the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (AJEV) for 15 years and the co-author of the text book, “Principles and Practices of Winemaking.” The textbook won the Le Prix en Oenologie from the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin in 1998. Awards In 2002, she received the Excellence in Teaching Award from UC Davis Extension; in 2004, she