Multi-omic profiling for cultivated seafood
2024 – 2026
This project will leverage multi-omic data to analyze several fish species in depth.
Production platform: Cultivated
Technology sector: Cell line development, Computational modeling
Project aims
The aim of this project is to create novel cell lines and to develop ways to enhance existing ones, with the goal of improving proliferation rates and understanding differentiation. This will be done by developing a better understanding of the underlying biological processes relevant to cultivated seafood, including characterizing diverse cell types, developing a better understanding of proliferation/differentiation dynamics, and computational modeling.
Principal Investigator
Christian Euler
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo, Canada
Dr. Christian Euler is a metabolic engineer and systems biologist whose work is centered around sustainable, bio-based solutions to global problems, from reducing plastic pollution to increasing food production. His extensive experience in metabolic modelling and data-driven bioprocess optimization is applicable to the wide array of technologies necessary to address these grand challenges, including alternative protein production processes. He also has experience in the start-up world, having co-founded Phycus Biotechnologies; he brings this industrial perspective to his research by addressing scalability at all stages of the research process.
Additional researchers
- Dr. Nguyen (Nathan) T. K. Vo, Coordinating Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Dr. Brian Ingalls, Collaborating Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Rikard Saqe, Research Co-Lead, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Kevin Shen, Research Co-Lead, University of Waterloo, Canada
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