Conference Day One
Wednesday - 27 March, 2024
7:45 am Registration & Morning Coffee
8:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Accelerating the Development of Robust Cell Lines for Effective Upscaling
9:00 am Building an End-to-End Cultivated Meat Process From Cell Line Development to Perfusion & Hollow Fibre Reactors
Synopsis
- Using pluripotent cells for production
- The opti-ox technology for high quality muscle and fat
- How perfusion stir tank reactors produce high density cultures
- The difference between in suspension differentiation and hollow fibre differentiation
9:30 am Accelerating Scalable Mammalian Cell Line Development to Maximise Proliferation
Synopsis
- Ensuring cell lines differentiate into the correct cell types for the end-product application
- Determining relevant biomarkers to check early on in a differentiation cycle to determine commercial viability under different bioprocess conditions
- Overcoming slow iteration cycles when testing different parameters to aid decision making
10:00 am Overcoming the Lack of Research & Protocol Availability for Effective Fish Cell Line Development
Synopsis
- Sharing updates on novel strategies for effective development of novel fish cell lines
- Understanding relevant lessons from mammalian cell line development and key indicative biomarkers
- Exploring inter-specific variables in development protocols
10:30 am Morning Break & Speed Networking
Building Effective, Scalable Analytical Frameworks to Determine Cell Line Viability in R&D
11:30 am Establishing Scalable Analytical Frameworks to Characterise Cell Line Stability & Differentiation Efficiency
Synopsis
- Implementing continuous monitoring to measure cell line robustness and responses to bioprocess parameter changes
- Transferring traditional biopharma analytical tools into the cultivated food industry
- Debating online versus offline monitoring techniques in the context of efficacy and efficiency
12:00 pm Providing Scale & Supply Chain Security for Low-Cost Growth Factors Required for Commercial Cultivation
Synopsis
- Utilising the protein machinery in plants to manufacture high-quality growth factors for cell cultivation.
- Transforming the barley seed into an excellent host for low-cost growth factors production that bypasses expensive downstream processing.
- How the seed production platform can provide the necessary scale for commercial production of animal growth factors with unique supply chain security.
12:30 pm Ensuring the Adaptability of Cell Lines to Industrial Production in R&D for Rapid Upscaling
Synopsis
- Determining cellular characteristics that increase cell line robustness in high density cell culture by overcoming nutrition limitations, by product accumulation, and bioreactor heterogeneity
- Promoting the plasticity of cell adaptability to variable industrial conditions
- Uncovering biopharma cell lines that are suitable for cultivated food upscaling
1:00 pm Networking Lunch
2:00 pm Keeping the End in Mind: Ensuring Cell Line Development Guarantees Taste & Quality of the Final Product
Synopsis
- Defining taste and the wild-type characteristics that need replicating
- Sharing techniques to assess and quantify taste of cultivated fish
- Leveraging this insight as a guide for effective cell line development
2:30 pm Panel Discussion: Cultivated Meat & Seafood – Moving from R&D to Commercial Viability
Synopsis
- Discussing main cost drivers in scale-up, lessons learned from traditional food, and the viability of strategic partnerships.
- Ensuring sustainability through bioprocess efficiency, capex, upcycling, and co-manufacturing capacity.
- Sharing novel strategies to facilitate scaling.
3:15 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks
3:30 pm End of Conference Day One
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