Travel bursary application for the participation in the international conference “MACROWINE 2018, Macromolecules and metabolites which make wine magic”

Abstract

The travel grant enabled Dr. Nick Kodoudakis to attend the international conference Macrowine 2018. The conference was held in Zaragoza in Spain from May 28th to 31st 2018 and was focussed on 7 main topics: Perceptions and emotions in wine consumption; Wine sensoactive molecules; Metabolites and macromolecules; Wine stability: chemistry, microbiology, technology; Vine/grape: quality, maturation, treatments, varieties; Microbiological diversity and quality and Bioactivity and physiology. The participation at the conference provide an excellent opportunity to get in contact with the latest advances at grape and wine research. Also it was a good opportunity for networking with existing and potential collaborators.

Summary

The 2018 edition of Macrowine was help at Zaragoza, Spain. Approximately 230 participants attended the conference. There were delegates from more than 16 different countries with enormous tradition in grape and wine production as also in grape and wine research. The conference included 7 keynote, 28 oral and 10 flash poster oral presentations that covered a wide range of the last advances of scientific and technological aspects of grape and wine science. Also, 159 posters were presented covering different scientific areas that include the grape growing, microbiology, metabolomics, grape and wine volatile and no volatile matrix, wine oxidations, physiology and bioactivity of grape and vines, psychology of perception, sensory etc. More than 600 research scientists from the academic world, the industry and governmental organisations were co-authors, projecting the high scientific interest and level of the congress.

Part of the Wine Australia funded research project (NWG 1401) was presented at the international congress Macrowine 2018. The data were presented as a communication in the form of a poster entitled ‘Impact of red and white wine macromolecules on the removal of copper(I) sulfide by membrane filtration’ at the section ‘Wine stability: chemistry, microbiology, technology’.  Finally, with collaborators and potential new collaborators were established relationships during the time of the conference.