DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 23.

Melissa Musiker DNS’03 from UPSIDE Foods will speak at Cornell Feb. 5 at noon in Stocking Hall 148. Bring your own lunch; snacks and drinks will be provided. Networking will follow the talk and Q&A.

About the speaker

https://www.human.cornell.edu/dns/spotlights/musiker Musiker currently serves as a business advisor to Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures and as an eLab business mentor for student startups.

UPSIDE Foods started as Memphis Meats in 2015 and has grown to become the largest cultivated meat company, with a valuation over $1B, and the first cultivated meat company in the U.S. to receive FDA greenlight.

About the organizer

The Cornell Institute for Food Systems (CIFS) comprises a multidisciplinary group of Faculty Fellows who tackle diverse issues in the food industry to meet this challenge. Bringing together nearly one hundred Cornell faculty members, the CIFS Faculty Fellows are drawn from a variety of Cornell departments. The challenge is feeding seven billion people – nine billion by 2050.

CIFS Faculty Fellows engage with the Institute and its industry partners in a variety of mechanisms including collaborative research, scientific advisory roles, and developing talent pipelines.

A central vehicle for industry engagement with the CIFS Faculty Fellows is the Cornell Institute for Food Systems Industry Partnership Program (CIFS-IPP), CIFS’s flagship corporate affiliates program. For more information on CIFS-IPP, the benefits it offers industry partners and its current industry members, please visit CIFS-IPP.