Leadership
Justin Siegel
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, UC Davis
Executive Committee Member, Lead of Knowledge Transfer
Siegel is an Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine and Faculty Director of the Innovation Institute for Food and Health at the University of California, Davis. He is also the Lead of Knowledge Transfer for AIFS, the USDA-NIFA/NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems. His research involves combining computational and experimental tools to develop a fundamental knowledge of enzyme catalysis, and applying those principles to design novel proteins.
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Project Involvement
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AIFS Publications
Journal Article ⏐ Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2026Journal Article ⏐ Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 2026Birds of a Feather: Environmental Insights From a Review of Global Broiler Chicken Production
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2026.1641029
Workshop Article ⏐ AI + Food Systems Data to Enhance Human and Planetary Health Workshop 2024Workshop Article ⏐ AI for Food and Health Workshop 2024White Paper: Artificial Intelligence for Food and Health
Journal Article ⏐ Foods 2020Journal Article ⏐ Foods 2020Preliminary Techno-Economic Assessment of Animal Cell-Based Meat
Risner, Derrick,Fangzhou Li,Jason S Fell,Sara A Pace,Justin Siegel,Ilias Tagkopoulos,and Edward S SpangDOI: 10.3390/foods10010003- Journal Article ⏐ ACS Food Science & Technology 2024Journal Article ⏐ ACS Food Sci. Technol. 2024
Environmental Impacts of Cultured Meat: A Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Assessment
DOI: 10.1021/acsfoodscitech.4c00281 
Journal Article ⏐ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2024Journal Article ⏐ J. Agric. Food Chem. 2024Discovery of Potent Glycosidases Enables Quantification of Smoke-Derived Phenolic Glycosides Through Enzymatic Hydrolysis
Cui, Youtian,Mary Riley,Marcus V Moreno,Mateo M Cepeda,Ignacio A Perez,Yan Wen,Lik X Lim,Eric Andre,An Nguyen,Cody Liu,Larry Lerno,Patrick K Nichols,Harold H Schmitz,Ilias Tagkopoulos,James A Kennedy,Anita Oberholster,and Justin SiegelDOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c01247
Preprint ⏐ bioRxiv 2023Preprint ⏐ bioRxiv 2023Cradle to Production Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Cultured Meat Growth Media: A Comparison of Essential 8™ and Beefy-9
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.21.537772