Grown-to-order plant materials: tissue engineering meets plant cell culture for tunable production

MTL Seminar Series
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Speaker
Ashley Beckwith, MIT
Location
Allen Room (36-462)
Open to
MIT Community

Join us for our Fall 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Seminar.

Abstract: New sourcing strategies for plant materials are needed to keep pace with outsized demand. This talk describes a new method of cell culture-based production that addresses persistent inefficiencies in traditional practice while offering unparalleled tunability. Cultivation of lab-grown plant materials unites concepts in tissue engineering, bioprinting, and plant cell culture to output net-shape, in vitro plant materials with controllable properties.

 

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Bio: Ashley Beckwith holds degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT (S.M. ‘18, Ph.D. ‘22) and biomedical engineering from CSU (B.S. ’15). Ashley’s multidisciplinary research career spans cell culture, microfluidics, additive manufacturing, and engineered plant materials. Ashley is now the founder and CEO of FORAY bioscience and an Activate Fellow.