2023 Draft Schedule

8.00

Building opens

9.15

Registration (second floor)

9.45

Welcome and Introduction: Illtud Dunsford

10.00

Panel 1: Securing Feedstocks & Hardware

• Adam Glen (DragonBio + Unicorn)
• Eirini Theodosiou (Aston)
• tbc

Chair: Prof Marianne Ellis

11.00

Poster presentations: Quickfire From Submitted Abstracts (2mins each)

• Jonathan Rand, CPI, Cultivated meat process innovation at CPI
• Charlotte Knight, Nottingham University, 3D differentiation conditions for the production of cultivated meat from livestock stem cells.
• Callum Wilkinson, Reading University, One issue for cultured meat is the production of cells in an organised fashion, similar to how skeletal muscle cells grow in nature
• Ben Dages, Aston University, Scaling cultivated meat production with edible non-woven supports.
• William Gordon-Petrovskii, UCL, Developing a scalable, food-grade, animal-free growth media for cell-cultivated meat using food-grade ingredient inputs.
• Julia Benfield, Roslin, Less is more: using thermostable FGF to optimize workload and media usage in iPSC culture.

Chair: Neil Stephens

11.15

Break

11.45

Presentations 1: From Submitted Abstracts (10mins talk, 5mins Q&A)

• Ferdinando Radice, Naturbeads, Cellulose beads as microcarriers for cultured meat production.
• Catherine Elton, Qkine, Growth factors for cellular agriculture: why we need to worry about species-specificity during media optimisation.
• Alice Esperanza, UBath, Accessible and Efficient Myoblast Isolation from Commercial Meat Products.
• Ana Silva-Almedia, Roslin, Making fat: Adipocyte differentiation of large animal stem cells for cultivated meat.
• Sarah Ho, Roslin, Ovine stem cells for cultivated lamb production: characterization and potential of induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells.

Chair: tbc.

13.00

Lunch buffet in the kitchen room *

14.00

Panel 2: Standards, Safety and Regulation

• Hannah Lester (Atova Consulting)
• Craig (Campden BRI)
• Mariela de Amstalden (UBirmingham)

Chair: Neil Stephens

15.00

Break

15.30

Presentations 2: Quickfire Ecosystem Update

• Estere Seinkmane, CAUK, Mapping the potential for UK universities to become research and teaching hubs for cellular agriculture
• Prof Tom Macmillan, RAU: CM&F
• Will Blacker, Kayser Space: On the road to cultured meat for astronauts.
• Prof Marianne Ellis, University of Bath, CARMA.

Chair: Illtud Dunsford

16.30

Close and thank you, dinosaur room open for networking until 5pm.

*Locally sourced lunch will be provided. Please email ap332@bath.ac.uk with any specific dietary requirements.