Louise Pelle

Louise Pelle

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Dr Louise Pelle is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine. She is currently part of a project focused on low and no-alcohol wine where she is utilising her expertise in microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Dr Pelle is working to improve multiple aspects of no and low alcohol wines, from microbial stability, to flavour retention and enhancement. The results will lead to recommendations for winemakers to aid the production of world-class no and low alcohol wine products.

Dr Pelle has ten years of scientific research experience and has worked on several molecular and microbiology-based projects. She completed a PhD in Wine Microbiology at the University of Adelaide in 2020, working on yeast-bacteria interactions in red wine fermentation. Dr Pelle continued in yeast research, working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Université de Sherbrooke in Canada (2020-2023), investigating the life-cycle of telomerase and telomerase RNA.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2024 - 2024 Lab Manager Flinders University
    2023 - 2023 Research Assistant University of Adelaide
    2020 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow Université de Sherbrooke
    2019 - 2019 Demonstrator The University Of Adelaide
    2018 - 2019 Casual Research Assistant Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    2016 - 2016 Research Assistant Flinders University
    2015 - 2016 Project Officer Flinders University
  • Awards and Achievements

    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2017 Scholarship Research Abroad Scholarship 2017 (Round 1) The University of Adelaide Australia -
    2016 Fellowship D R Stranks Postgraduate Travelling Fellowship 2016 The University of Adelaide Australia -
    2016 Invitation Letter of Invitation for Visiting Research The University of Cambridge United Kingdom -
    2016 Scholarship 2016 Winter School Student Travel Bursary The University of Queensland Australia -
    2016 Achievement Chancellors Letter of Commendation Flinders University Australia -
    2016 Scholarship Faculty of Sciences Divisional Scholarship University of Adelaide Australia -
    2016 Scholarship Wine Australia PhD Top-Up Scholarship Wine Australia Australia -
    2015 Achievement University Medal Flinders University Australia -
  • Language Competencies

    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    2020 University of Adelaide Australia Doctor of Philosophy
    2015 - 2015 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    2012 - 2014 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Medical Science
  • Postgraduate Training

    Date Title Institution Country
    2016 - 2016 AMSI BioInfoSummer 2016 The University of Adelaide Australia
    2016 - 2016 Adelaide Metagenomics Workshop Flinders University Australia
    2016 - 2016 2016 Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology The University of Queensland Australia
  • Research Interests


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