Alt Protein Pipelines: Lab kits for accessible cellular agriculture training

Event description

This installment of the Alt Protein Pipelines webinar series will showcase how fit-for-purpose laboratory kits can be embedded into standard education pathways, giving students the opportunity to directly explore and apply the science behind alternative protein technologies.

The series is designed to share case studies and practical insights that educators, students, administrators, and industry partners can use to shape their own training programs. Each session emphasizes the practical steps, challenges, and solutions of a training pathway so attendees leave with actionable ideas to bring back to their institutions and ecosystems.

Currently, most students gain hands-on exposure to cellular agriculture only through industry internships or on-the-job training. Academic programs that attempt to bridge the gap often adapt principles from medical tissue engineering or microbial fermentation, rather than offering direct, dedicated instruction in cultivated meat. Limited infrastructure and expertise remain major barriers.

Self-contained laboratory kits make cellular agriculture accessible to professors and students across a much broader spectrum of academic disciplines and resourcing. Integriculture, a cellular agriculture platform company working to democratize the technology, has partnered with a number of universities to put this vision into practice. In this webinar, representatives from Integriculture and Temasek Polytechnic will discuss how they built their partnership, how such kits can be integrated into a classroom setting, and how any university program can provide their students direct exposure to cellular agriculture technologies.