metadata: {"type": "project", "title": "Plant Cell Institute", "logoImg": "bafkreidc25h2xznx5h6m4nhzymgnzmh6xxvgdaenytdo44g5aec42fwfna", "website": "https://www.pci.life/", "bannerImg": "bafkreidhap623ntt6rt63fcsfcf6iqmfe7lroevzwrhgjulitxrzrt4xem", "createdAt": 1674852338937, "credentials": {}, "description": "We produce wheat without agriculture to solve global access to food. We use cells \u2013 not plants \u2013 to mass-produce high-quality wheat flour in bioreactors. It\u2019s fast, sustainable, and guarantees food supply & sovereignty. Our technology removes the dependency on land and climate to produce food.\n\nTeam:\nWe are a coalition of 70+ scientists from 20 countries that strive to improve access to sustainable food (https://www.pci.life/network/). The core team is: \n\nPhilippe Jutras (ex-postdoc University of Oxford), R\u00e9mi Maglione (Harvest Genomics), Marcel Bach (PhD University of Oxford), Piergiorgio Adamo (MBA at LUISS)\n\nValues: \nThe Plant Cell Institute's visionary structure relies on its four strong foundations: \n\n1. Distributed collaboration\n2. Open science\n3. Support to early career scientists\n4. Community-driven projects\n\nBudget: \n\nWe need 50,000$ to finance the four first research objectives: \n\n1. Prepare wheat material (7000$)\n2. Establish tissue culture lines (28000$)\n3. Identify wheat candidates (3000$)\n4. Grow cell lines in flasks (12000$)\n\nThe funding will be used to reach our first scientific milestone: cook a pancake with our cell-based wheat flour.\n\nWhy wheat? \nWheat is a critical component of food security. Political situations and climate disasters threaten the wheat supply chain, affecting the caloric intake of 60-100M people. It's time to re-imagine agriculture.\n\nInformation: \n\nWebsite: https://www.pci.life/\nDocumentation: https://www.docs.pci.life/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/pcilife", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "https://twitter.com/pcilife"}
name: Plant Cell Institute