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Women in Cellular Ag: A Panel Discussion

May 14, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Free

Please join the University of California, Merced for a discussion with awesome women in the field of cellular agriculture!

What is cellular ag?

According to NC State University, “cellular agriculture is an innovative, interdisciplinary field of science focused on producing agricultural products like food (e.g. meat, milk, eggs) or materials (e.g. leather, silk, bone) from the cellular level through biotechnology – via cell culture, fermentation or other means. Cellular agriculture is a new application of biotechnology aimed at producing additional animal protein cultivated from cell cultures to feed the growing world population.”

Panelists:

Dr. Akemi Kunibe, Protein Scientist, Shiru

Dr. Vidya Chamundeswari Narasimhan, Scientist, New Age Meats

Muriel Vernon, Founder, FollowTheFuture.org

Yadira Tejeda Saldana, Research Collaborations Director, New Harvest

More to be announced!

Join the panel discussion Friday, May 14th at 3 PM PST via Zoom.

Register for the panel at: http://bit.ly/CellularAg (link is case sensitive)

Free and open to the public.

Details

Date:
May 14, 2021
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Website:
https://bit.ly/CellularAg