Meet the CBI Team
Leadership


Lafontaine Lab
Staff

Rahul Sen
Analytical chemistry and instrumentation (GC-MS/MS, HPLC-MS)

Heena Rani
Cereal chemistry, malt quality, and metabolomics

Christian Schubert
Beer flavor stability, brewing quality, and starch chemistry
PhD Candidates

Bernardo Pontes Guimaraes
Rice malt optimization and quality

Andrew Maust
Non-alcoholic beer quality and safety optimization
Master’s Students

Matthew Aitkens
Rice extract optimization

Maddie Shults
Rice format stability and beverage flavor

Chijindu (Peace) Onwuchekwa
Rice-based beverage innovation and sake research
Threlfall Lab
Staff

Jordan Slayden
Project Manager Vitis x Muscadinia

Cindi Brownmiller
Laboratory Technician
Master’s Students

Amanda Fleming
Department of Food Science
Thesis: Strategies to Improve Grape and Wine Production in Non-Traditional Grape Growing Regions

Zachary Bean
Department of Food Science
Thesis: Using Biological Fermentations to Produce Low Alcohol Wine from Native and Hybrid Vitis Grapes
Contact Us
Center for Beverage Innovation, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dr. Renee Threlfall – rthrelf@uark.edu, 479-575-4677
Dr. Scott Lafontaine – scottla@uark.edu, 479-789-3292