Tommaso Watson

Biography

I specialise in Wine and Beer fermentation science. Microbial activities have contributed in shaping these alcoholic beverages thought the history of modern civilisation, to the current commercial product. Scientific progress allowed a better understanding of the role of yeast and bacteria in these process, providing knowledge and tools to create a desirable product. The focus of my research is to generate and identify microbial strains suitable for the purpose of modern winemaking and brewing, with improved technological and sensorial characteristics. To achieve so, techniques that do not involved direct manipulation of the genome are used. The novel phenotypes obtained will show improvement of specific traits whilst aiming to preserve the positive original characteristics of the original strains. To help in this difficult task of screening through thousands of candidates mutants, I have been developing new robotic equipment, which empower this research with added capabilities.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc