Meet the Team: Matt Longshaw
Get to know Matt Longshaw, Senior Scientist (Aquaculture) at Calysta What was your first job? What did you study at university? My first “proper” job after my MSc was at the Marine Lab in Aberdeen where I worked on the taxonomy of parasites of deep-water fish from the south Atlantic and on wild sea trout […]
Meet the Team: Lori Giver, Ph.D.
Get to know Lori Giver, Ph.D., Chief Science and Sustainability Officer at Calysta What was your first job? What did you study at university? As an undergraduate, I was lucky enough to work during the summers at NASA (my dad spent his whole career there!). I studied extremophiles (microbes that live under extreme conditions) as a […]
FeedKind® Protein Wins FDA GRAS Status for Use in Aquaculture
SAN MATEO, California. February 20, 2023. Calysta, the world leader in fermented protein, has announced that its leading product, FeedKind®, has achieved generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine have granted Calysta’s FeedKind protein GRAS status for use in the US […]
Meet the Team: Ricardo Rossi
Get to know Ricardo Rossi, Fermentation Scientist at Calysta What was your first job and what did you study at University? Life was always the most interesting puzzle to me, both scientifically and philosophically. So, when I was very young, I decided to study Biology as my BSc, followed by MSc in Biotechnology and genetics. […]
Meet the Team: Kamilla Bogát
Get to know Kamilla Bogát, Fermentation Scientist at Calysta Can you describe the role of a fermentation scientist, including your responsibilities? My main role as a Fermentation Scientist is leading the UK fermentation lab, designing, carrying out and analysing fermentations for experiments. Additionally, I am involved with the development of the fermentation process and material […]
Calysta and Adisseo developing plan to bring major alternative protein facility to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
— Advanced discussions underway to build site five times the size of maiden FeedKind fermenter in China — Calysseo, a joint venture between world-leading alternative protein company Calysta and worldwide animal nutrition leader Adisseo, has announced it intends to build an alternative protein facility in Al Jubail in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership […]
A Decade of Calysta
By Alan Shaw Ph.D, CEO and Co-founder of Calysta We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of Calysta, both a proud and motivating milestone in our journey. In these 10 years, we’ve made strides towards transforming the future of food by producing alternative protein for potential use across all markets. As I reflect on the last decade […]
New era of food security beckons as world’s first industrial-scale alternative protein facility switches on
SAN MATEO, Calif. The world’s first industrial-scale facility to produce FeedKind®, a protein ingredient that needs no animal or plant matter to produce, has switched on. Calysseo, a joint venture between worldwide animal nutrition leader Adisseo and protein innovator Calysta, will initially produce 20,000 tonnes of protein per year from the facility in Chongqing, China. […]
Why we need protein without limits
Why we need protein without limits By Herman Sloot In the future, one of our biggest challenges will be how we feed the world. We are in a unique situation where global food insecurity has been accelerated by a number of factors, including conflict, disease, droughts and supply chain issues. How do we create protein […]
Meet the Team: Quynh Nguyen
Get to know Quynh Nguyen, Process Engineer at Calysta Can you describe a typical day-in-the life of a Process Engineer at Calysta? My typical day varies depending on the phase of the project I am currently working on. During the detail design phase over the past year, I spent time collaborating internally with our international […]