Fresno, Calif.—Matt Brain is the new winemaker and winemaking lecturer at California State University, Fresno. Brain, who is the co-owner of his own brand Baker & Brain Wines, previously held the winemaking lecturer position at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Brain has served as an enologist technical representative from Laffort USA, winemaker at Edna Valley Vineyard and Juniper Canyon and cellar master at Tolosa Winery and Courtside Cellars. He received his bachelor’s degree in plant physiology from San Houston State in 2000, and a master’s in biological control and fungal pathology in 2002. Brain also completed the University of California, Davis wine and viticulture distance learning program in 2010.