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August 2021

Vítor Espírito Santo

Vítor Espírito Santo is the Director of Cellular Agriculture for Eat Just, a San Francisco-based company on a mission to build a food system where everyone eats well. In this capacity, Santo is focused on leading Eat Just's biotechnology and cell culture program towards the development of cultured meat.

Santo holds an MSc in advanced Biomedical Engineering and a PhD from the University of Minho in Portugal and the Kyoto University in Japan. He has over 15 years of research experience specializing in the development of cell-based models and therapies for biotechnology and food...Read more

Ori Bar-Nur

Dr. Ori Bar-Nur serves as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, where he heads the Regenerative and Movement Biology lab. He received his PhD degree with distinction in 2012 from the Hebrew University and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in 2018, both in Stem Cell Biology. The primary goal of his laboratory is directed towards finding novel means to expand myogenic progenitors in vitro for regenerative medicine and cellular agriculture purposes. To this end, his lab utilizes direct lineage reprogramming...Read more

Samvith Rao

Samvith Rao is the global chemical and petroleum manager at MathWorks. He leads the engagement and drives the technical awareness of MathWorks products in these industries. Prior to his current role, he worked as a process engineer at Reliance Industries Limited. He handled technical services, long term projects and modeling & simulation for the reforming units. Samvith earned B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, and an MBA from UNC - Chapel Hill. He is a senior member of the AIChE.Read more

Beyond unconscious bias training: What works? Presented by WuQing Hipsh

Wednesday, September 22, 2021,
9:00pm to 10:00pm
EDT
By now we’ve all heard that unconscious bias is part of being human. Although we may believe we’re being objective, we all have unconscious biases. At this meeting, we'll be breaking down the behavioural science behind unconscious bias - and exploring its effect on recruitment. We’ll find out if...Read more

Utkarsh Chaudhari

Utkarsh Chaudhari is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in the Chemical Engineering department at Michigan Technological University (MTU). He received his Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Chemical Engineering along with a Graduate Certificate in Sustainability at MTU in May 2019. His research interests include plastics recycling, plastic waste supply chain, circular economy, process simulations, life cycle assessment (LCA), techno-economic analysis (TEA), system optimization, and sustainable biofuel production.Read more

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