TCES Net workshop: Cultured Meat
Vanessa Benjamin and her team would like to welcome you to their TCES workshop to be held in February. Please see below for details, and register here:
Applying cell and tissue engineering to the scalable production of cultured meats
Description: A Tissue and Cell Engineering Society (TCES) sponsored meeting providing networking opportunities for early career researchers and others to liaise with industry stakeholders working in the growing cultured meat space. This action-oriented meeting is designed to bring together an interdisciplinary group of academics and industry to develop collaborative initiatives around BBSRC’s call around novel food production systems.
15th February 2023
The Workshop in The Catalyst
3 Helix Science Square
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG
Registration is FREE. Kindly register here
| Session I – General Introduction to cell-cultured meats | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome: tea/refreshments |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome, Introduction to the day Che Connon, Professor of Tissue Engineering, Newcastle University |
| 10:10 – 10:25 | Tissue and cell engineering and its potential for food production Dr. Ricardo Gouveia, co-Founder & CSO, 3D Bio-Tissues Ltd. |
| 10:25 – 10:40 | A regional overview of potential cell-cultured meat stakeholders Che Connon, Professor of Tissue Engineering, Newcastle University |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee/Tea break, Networking |
| Session II – Working session | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | First meeting synopsis and details on BBSRC’s call Vanessa Benjamin, PhD student, Newcastle University |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Guided small group activity – Part I Defining industry challenges & skills present |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch/Networking |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Guided small group activity – Part II Aligning work packages identified from previous session with detailed discussions of project ideas, identification of project objectives, assignment of tasks and timelines to submission. |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Feedback from small groups and next steps |
| 14:00 | Close |