Cell culture media from yeast
Years active: 2024This project creates a cost-effective nutrient source for cultivated meat production from sustainably growing lipid-rich yeast on lupin waste.
Cell culture media
Microalgae for sustainable cultivated meat
Years active: 2024This project uses microalgae to recycle mammalian cell culture media and create amino acids for growth supplements for cultivated meat production.
Agricultural sidestreams for culture media
Years active: 2024This project will assess the functionality of various agricultural sidestream derived cell culture media components.
Low-cost cell culture media
Years active: 2024This project aims to develop efficient and cost-effective cell culture media from optimized bioprocesses for industrial-scale cultivated meat production.
High-performance oxygen carriers for cultivated meat
Mammalian cell culture performance can be limited by oxygen and carbon dioxide levels or by shear stress associated with sparging and mixing. The use of protein-based oxygen carriers could help to address these issues in the context of a cultivated meat bioprocess.
Model-guided optimization of alt protein
Years active: 2023This project will develop and optimize low-cost serum-free culture media for cultivated chicken meat, using metabolic modeling and spent media analysis.
Multi-omic profiling for cultivated seafood
Years active: 2023This project will leverage multi-omic data to analyze several fish species in depth.
Optimizing growth media for bovine cells
Years active: 2023Dr. Betenbaugh is developing a model-based approach to optimize media to reduce the cost of cultivated meat and improve product yield and quality.
TRANSFORM ‘Waste-to-Microbial Protein’
Years active: 2023This project will develop new tools and knowledge on optimized, scalable, and sustainable fermentation-derived protein based on low-cost, food-grade carbon sourced from waste.
Genome-scale metabolic model of porcine cells
Years active: 2023A genome-scale metabolic model of porcine cells will be constructed and validated to identify the most efficient way to feed porcine cells.
