Beyond Agriculture: How Microorganisms Can Revolutionize Global Food Production
Bring your lunch and listen to a lecture on microbial food with guest speaker Tomas Linder, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Molecular Sciences at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Time: Tue 2024-05-21 12.00 - 13.00
Location: Teknikringen 43
Language: English
Participating: Tomas Linder
The global food production system has, until now, been absolutely dependent on photosynthesis. Using microbial biomass as a source of food rather than plant- or animal-derived biomass circumvents many of the biophysical constraints and vulnerabilities of the global food system. Microbial foods in the form of either bulk cellular biomass or recombinant food proteins (typically of animal origin) can be produced in the absence of sunlight, soil, favorable climate conditions, and in some cases without freshwater. This talk will look at some of the most recent developments in the field of microbial foods and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for this technology.
This lecture will be held by Tomas Linder , a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Molecular Sciences at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Read the paper Beyond Agriculture - How Microorganisms Can Revolutionize Global Food Production via the following link: pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.3c00099