College of Agricultural Sciences

C. D. Curtin, Borneman, A. R., Chambers, P. J., and Pretorius, I. S., “De-novo assembly and analysis of the heterozygous triploid genome of the wine spoilage yeast Dekkera bruxellensis AWRI1499.”, PLoS One, vol. 7, no. 3, p. e33840, 2012.

W. Albertin, Panfili, A., Miot-Sertier, C., Goulielmakis, A., Delcamp, A., Salin, F., Lonvaud-Funel, A., Curtin, C. D., and Masneuf-Pomarede, I., “Development of microsatellite markers for the rapid and reliable genotyping of Brettanomyces bruxellensis at strain level.”, Food Microbiol, vol. 42, pp. 188-95, 2014.

E. S. King, Kievit, R. L., Curtin, C. D., Swiegers, J. H., Pretorius, I. S., Bastian, S. E. P., and I. Francis, L., “The effect of multiple yeasts co-inoculations on Sauvignon Blanc wine aroma composition, sensory properties and consumer preference”, Food Chemistry, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 618 - 626, 2010.

S. Holt, Cordente, A. G., Williams, S. J., Capone, D. L., Jitjaroen, W., Menz, I. R., Curtin, C. D., and Anderson, P. A., “Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae to release 3-Mercaptohexan-1-ol during fermentation through overexpression of an S. cerevisiae Gene, STR3, for improvement of wine aroma.”, Appl Environ Microbiol, vol. 77, no. 11, pp. 3626-32, 2011.

A. G. Cordente, Curtin, C. D., Varela, C., and Pretorius, I. S., “Flavour-active wine yeasts.”, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 601-18, 2012.

G. Winter, Cordente, A. G., and Curtin, C. D., “Formation of hydrogen sulfide from cysteine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4742: genome wide screen reveals a central role of the vacuole.”, PLoS One, vol. 9, no. 12, p. e113869, 2014.

C. D. Curtin, Bellon, J. R., Henschke, P. A., Godden, P. W., and Lopes, M. A. de Barro, “Genetic diversity of Dekkera bruxellensis yeasts isolated from Australian wineries.”, FEMS Yeast Res, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 471-81, 2007.

C. D. Curtin and Pretorius, I. S., “Genomic insights into the evolution of industrial yeast species Brettanomyces bruxellensis.”, FEMS Yeast Res, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 997-1005, 2014.

C. D. Curtin, Varela, C., and Borneman, A. R., “Harnessing improved understanding of B rettanomyces bruxellensis biology to mitigate the risk of wine spoilage”, Australian journal of grape and wine research, vol. 21, pp. 680–692, 2015.

C. D. Curtin, Langhans, G., Henschke, P. A., and Grbin, P. R., “Impact of Australian Dekkera bruxellensis strains grown under oxygen-limited conditions on model wine composition and aroma.”, Food Microbiol, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 241-7, 2013.

G. Winter and Curtin, C. D., “In situ high throughput method for H(2)S detection during micro-scale wine fermentation.”, J Microbiol Methods, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 165-70, 2012.

A. R. Borneman, Zeppel, R., Chambers, P. J., and Curtin, C. D., “Insights into the Dekkera bruxellensis genomic landscape: comparative genomics reveals variations in ploidy and nutrient utilisation potential amongst wine isolates.”, PLoS Genet, vol. 10, no. 2, p. e1004161, 2014.

A. G. Cordente, Cordero-Bueso, G., Pretorius, I. S., and Curtin, C. D., “Novel wine yeast with mutations in YAP1 that produce less acetic acid during fermentation.”, FEMS Yeast Res, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 62-73, 2013.

P. J. Chambers, Borneman, A. R., Varela, C., Cordente, A. G., ,, Tran, T. M. T., Henschke, P. A., and Curtin, C. D., “Ongoing domestication of wine yeast: past, present and future”, Australian journal of grape and wine research, vol. 21, pp. 642–650, 2015.

S. Conn, Curtin, C. D., Bézier, A., Franco, C., and Zhang, W., “Purification, molecular cloning, and characterization of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) from pigmented Vitis vinifera L. cell suspension cultures as putative anthocyanin transport proteins.”, J Exp Bot, vol. 59, no. 13, pp. 3621-34, 2008.

A. G. Cordente, Capone, D. L., and Curtin, C. D., “Unravelling glutathione conjugate catabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: the role of glutathione/dipeptide transporters and vacuolar function in the release of volatile sulfur compounds 3-mercaptohexan-1-ol and 4-mercapto-4-methylpentan-2-one.”, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, vol. 99, no. 22, pp. 9709-22, 2015.

A. Contreras, Curtin, C. D., and Varela, C., “Yeast population dynamics reveal a potential 'collaboration' between Metschnikowia pulcherrima and Saccharomyces uvarum for the production of reduced alcohol wines during Shiraz fermentation.”, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 1885-95, 2015.