Cultivate 2025

9.30 Arrive and registration

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10.00 Welcome: Neil Stephens (Cultivate, University of Birmingham)

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10.15 Industry panel: Jake Bell (Multus Media), Riley Jackson (Ivy Farm Technologies), Jonathan Rand (CPI) Chair: Alexandra Sexton (Cultivate, Durham University) 
 
11.15 Coffee 

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11.45 Cultured meat in public: 

• Jason Thomas (University of Aston): A recipe for success: predictors of cultivated meat provision by parents of children in primary and secondary school

• Naomi Hart (independent artist): Culturing Meat: Engaging with Art in the Flesh in Butcher's Row, Barnstaple

• Lensa Jotte (University of Birmingham): Food for Utopia, Contested in Ethiopia: Negotiating In Vitro Meat in the Cultural Geographies of the Oromo People in Borana and Yabello 

• Chair: Marianne Ellis (Cultivate, University of Bath)

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12.40 Blitz poster presentations, 

• Alice Johnson (Aston University): Mycelia, Myself and Meatballs

• Ekin Kosegil (University of Leeds): What Factors Affect Consumer Acceptance of Cultured Meat in the UK? 

• Charlotte Knight (University of Nottingham): Myogenic differentiation conditions of pig embryonic stem cells 

• Estere Seinkmane (Cell Ag UK, UCL): Cell Ag UK: a review of the year 

• Alex Hartley (University of Nottingham & University of Bath): Edible hydrogel microcarrier with excellent biocompatibility and tuneability

• Chair: Marianne Ellis

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13.00 Lunch
 
14.00  Regulation in discussion: Joshua Ravenhill - Head of Cell-Cultivated Product Sandbox · Food Standards Agency, in discussion with Illtud Dunsford (Cultivate, Cellular Agriculture Ltd)

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14.50 Coffee 

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15.20 Cultivated meat and risk, a dialogue: Petra Hanga (UCL), Mariela de Amstalden (University of Cambridge), Neil Stephens (Cultivate, University of Birmingham)

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16.20 Wrap up and close 

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16.30 End