Cellular Agriculture for AI Researchers
A starting point for AI / ML researchers approaching cellular agriculture from the computer-science side. Watch the field foundations, pick up the reference reading, then follow the cross-links into the AI × cell-ag work catalogued throughout the rest of the library. (Approaching from the biology side instead — learning the AI? See the companion AI for cell-ag researchers primer.)
Watch first — field foundations
Short primers and the field's annual State of the Industry talks: the science, the commercial landscape, and the people doing the work. Start here, then the rest of the library becomes much more navigable.
Watch “Introduction to Cellular Agriculture” on YouTube Introduction to Cellular Agriculture
(TUCCA — Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture) — primer covering the science, motivation, and current state of the field.
Watch “Fireside Chat: Bruce Friedrich and David Kaplan” on YouTube Fireside Chat: Bruce Friedrich and David Kaplan
(Tufts Future Food Innovation Day, 2026) — the GFI founder and the TUCCA / Tufts cell-ag program lead on the field's direction.
Watch “2026 State of the Industry: Cultivated meat, seafood, and ingredients” on YouTube 2026 State of the Industry: Cultivated meat, seafood, and ingredients
(GFI, 2026).
Watch “2026 State of the Industry: Fermentation for meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients” on YouTube 2026 State of the Industry: Fermentation for meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients
(GFI, 2026).
Watch “2026 State of the Industry: Plant-based meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients” on YouTube 2026 State of the Industry: Plant-based meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and ingredients
(GFI, 2026).
- LinkGFI State of the Industry — full report downloadsthe Good Food Institute's de-facto annual reports across the cultivated, fermentation, and plant-based tracks, with supplementary data (PDF).
Read and take a course
Reference reading and structured courses for the science and the bioprocess-engineering side of scale-up.
- LinkMEAT by Bruce Friedrichbook by GFI's founder making the case for cellular agriculture and alternative proteins.
- LinkFoundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering I(Verret, Qiao & Barghout, UBC) — an open LibreTexts textbook covering process diagrams, reaction chemistry, mass and energy balances, and process control; foundational background for the bioprocess-engineering side of cultivated-meat scale-up.
- In CAAIL Cellular agriculture coursesuniversity courses on cellular agriculture, including the TUCCA BME 173/174 lecture-and-lab sequence.
- In CAAIL Books and reference worksthe foundational cell-ag textbook and the Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences reference shelf.
See AI applied to cell-ag
Once you have the field context, these are the entry points into the AI × cell-ag work itself.
- In CAAIL Papers Explorerthe matrix of AI method × research area over the curated reference set, with code and data links.
- In CAAIL Applied AI/ML for Cellular Agriculture talksconference and webinar talks on AI applied to concrete cell-ag problems.
- In CAAIL Research Areasdeep-dive pages on media optimization, cellular engineering, bioprocess control, scaffolding, and sensory prediction.