Below is a list of the various competences that have been identified to be critical for a successful undertaking of the In Vitro Meat R&D programme. If you want to contribute and possess expertise in one or more of these fields (or other types of expertise you think the mission will need), please register so that we can come in touch with you.

Process economy and legal issues:

• Production economist and process engineer to estimate costs under various regimes
• Environmental economist with experience in life-cycle analysis to estimate environmental impacts relative to conventional meat
• Regulatory lawyer to review anticipated regulatory treatment of in vitro meat in various countries
• Food market analyst to assess consumer acceptance of in vitro meat
  

Production systems:

• Chemical/biotechnological process plant construction and optimization
• Process control
• Production of single cell protein from methanothropes
• Production of single cell protein from yeast
• Production of single cell protein from plant sources
• Large scale fractionation of single cell suspensions
• Large scale production of vitamins
• Large scale production of serum mimics (growth factors, cytokines, etc.)
• The chemical, physical and process aspects of cell culture composition and production
• Enzymology of relevance to food processing
• Biosensor technology
• Large scale genotyping technologies
• Instrument manufacturing
  

Stem cell culturing and differentiation:

• Stem cell creation from domesticated animals
• Large scale stem cell culturing
• Cell co-culture methodologies and issues
• Methodologies for directed stem cell differentiation into skeletal muscle
• Bioprinting technology (myoblast sheets)
• The developmental biology of muscle tissue
• (Large scale) 3-d cell (co-)culturing technology
• Muscle tissue phenotyping technologies (in the wide sense)
• Neutral lipid / flavour /muscle cell fatty acid biology
• Cell culture diseases and associated diagnostic methodology
  

Modelling and multivariate analysis:

• Advanced multivariate analysis methodology
• Mathematical modelling of biological tissues and organs from gene to phenotype
• Experimental and theoretical biophysics of muscle tissue including the extracellular matrix