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The inaugural Food@Stanford symposium, Re-Thinking Food – From Plate to Planet brought together students, postdocs, staff, and faculty across all seven schools. The campus-wide initiative has a shared mission to create sustainable, equitable, and health-promoting food futures by integrating research, education, and innovation. Talks from the one-day symposium Re-Thinking Food - From Plate to Planet on April 24, 2025 can be viewed below. The event featured nine exciting keynote speakers, speed science talks from Stanford students, panel discussions, and, of course, delicious and nutritious foods.
Re-Thinking Food - From Plate to Planet
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Clark Center Auditorium
Opening Remarks
| Ellen Kuhl, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Lily Sarafan, incoming Chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees watch here |
Food & Planetary Health
| chaired by Elizabeth Sattely, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Jonathan Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown watch here |
| Vipula Shukla, Senior Program Officer, Crops R&D, Gates Foundation watch here |
| Pamela Ronald, Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology, UC Davis watch here (SUNet ID required) |
Remarks
| Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability watch here |
Fast Food
| Gianna Dugan, undergraduate, Earth Systems; Peyton Daley, undergraduate, Earth Systems watch here |
| Juliette Lermusiaux, undergraduate, School of Engineering; Jordan Stock, undergraduate, Earth Systems watch here |
| Skyler St. Pierre, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering watch here |
| Anna-Katharina Preidl, graduate student, Chemical Engineering watch here |
| Beverly Fu, postdoc, Bioengineering watch here (SUNet ID required) |
| Kate Kozaeva, visiting scholar, Bioengineering watch here |
| Sean Spencer, postdoc/instructor, Gastroenterology & Hepatology watch here |
Food & Human Health
| chaired by Justin Sonnenburg, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University |
| Frank Hu, Chair of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard University watch here |
| Selina Wang, Professor of Chemistry, UC Davis watch here |
| Harold Schmitz, Food Scientist, Founding Partner, The March Group watch here |
| Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University watch here |
Food & Tech
| Karim Pichara, CTO and Co-Founder of NotCo watch here (SUNet ID required) |
Panel Discussion
| moderated by Alfred Spormann, Professor Emeritus of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Stanford University watch here | |
| Patrick Brown, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Stanford University | Harold Schmitz, Food Scientist and Founding Partner, The March Group |
| David Lobell, Professor of Earth Systems Science, Stanford University | Vipula Shukla, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation |
| Pamela Ronald, Professor of Plant Pathology, UC Davis | |
Rethinking Food - Plenary Lecture
| introduced by Andrew Mayne, Senior Associate Director of Culinary Event Strategy, Stanford University |
| Harold McGee, Food Scientist and Science Writer video not available |
Closing Remarks
| Closing Remarks, David Studdert, Vice Provost and Dean of Research watch here |