Event Details
Mon 8th Apr 2024 @ 4:30pm - 5:30pm
FREE
Growing Seafood in the Lab: A Way To Feed Humanity and Protect Our Oceans
Join us on Monday, 8th April 2024. to hear from Professor Yaniv Elkouby about how the start-up Forsea Foods will help save our aquatic ecosystems and bring us the food of the future.
With Professor Yaniv Elkouby, Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Biomedical Research – Israel-Canada (IMRIC)
PROFESSOR YANIV ELKOUBY is a professor at the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof Elkouby established the zebrafish ovary as a new model system to study the cellular mechanisms of ovary development and early egg production. His research employs a multidisciplinary approach to the developing ovary, and he pioneered the view of egg production by advanced quantitative and live microscopy of whole ovaries. His research resulted in several breakthroughs that contributed to our understanding of the earliest stages of egg production, generating knowledge that is directly relevant to human reproduction. He has won numerous grants and awards, including the ZCAI Prize for Discovery in Medical Research, HUJI President and Rector Awards for Outstanding Publications, an ERC Consolidator grant, and the EMBO Young Investigator Award. Prof Elkouby is an elected board member of the Israeli Society of Developmental Biology, and a co-founder of Forsea Foods, a start-up company for the production of cultivated fish meat.