2015-07-27
The next ASBC LABS Meeting will be held July 27, 2015.
Where?
New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins, CO
When?
5:30–8:30, Monday, July 27, 2015
How Much?
$20 for members; $25 for nonmembers
Topics
A Taste of Crowdsourcing Science: Developments in Taste Research Using Citizen Science
Nicole Garneau
Nicole Garneau is a geneticist that studies sensory perception at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and takes an active role in public engagement. As a result, she promotes an interactive dialogue between the public, citizen-scientists, and career scientists and was recently selected as a finalist for the 2012 AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science. At the Museum, she directs the highly successful Genetics of Taste Lab, a community-based research model that incorporates both crowdsourcing and citizen science. The data from Dr. Garneau’s research will improve the understanding of how evolution has helped humans adapt as a species in order to survive, and also explain the effects of taste evolution on modern day humans. When she's not in the lab, or collaborating on sensory science in the beer industry, she's dropping science gems online as @yopearlscigirl. You can learn more about Dr. Garneau at www.dmns.org/nicole and her research at www.dmns.org/genetics.
Understanding the Tetrad Method
Ali Schultz
Ali Schultz graduated from the University of California, Davis with an M.S. degree in food science. Coming directly to New Belgium Brewing after graduation, she has expanded her knowledge of sensory science and the brewing process by maintaining a full-fledged sensory panel of 85 people, including running daily panels, giving weekly trainings, and tracking panelist attendance and performance. Since then, she has helped develop a descriptive analysis panel and now trains and validates that panel for many projects, from raw materials, to new product development, to in-depth analysis of core brands in preparation for the opening of New Belgium’s second brewery in Asheville, North Carolina.
Strong Out of the Gates: Building a Sensory Program from the Ground up
Melissa Antone
Bio coming soon