Dr Leigh Schmidtke

Biography

Leigh is a passionate consumer of wine having been introduced to Australian Shiraz and Chardonnay during the final year of an undergraduate degree of Medical Laboratory Science. He worked as a research microbiologist for five years at the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries in Tasmania investigating and characterising the role of a range of bacterial species as pathogens in farmed salmonids. Part of this work was the development of infection models and the identification of putative vaccination candidates to assist in control of infection disease.

Research Interest

Wine Chemistry, Wine Microbiology, Advanced Oenology