This is the second annual Global Food+ symposium, bringing leading researchers from Boston University, Harvard, MIT and Tufts together to share their most important new work towards healthier and more sustainable food systems. Our speed talk format allows participants to make new connections across Boston-area schools and types of research, in person and online with streaming and archived video. Faculty represented span key disciplines from archaeology to theology. Light refreshments will be available during the event and there will be a reception after the main event.
Event Program
Start | End | Speaker | Topic | Affilliation |
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12:30 | 12:40 | Ed Saltzman, Bill Clark | Opening remarks | Saltzman: Dean for Academic Affairs, Tufts Friedman School |
Clark: Harvey Brooks Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | ||||
12:41 | 12:48 | Y. Karen Zheng | A data-driven approach to managing food safety in global supply chains | Assoc. Professor of Operations Management, MIT |
12:49 | 12:56 | Sai K. Das | Energy metabolism, calorie restriction and health | Asst. Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University |
12:57 | 1:04 | Forest Reinhardt | Changing institutions for water management | John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School |
1:05 | 1:12 | Jenny Aker | How technology is (not?) transforming rural Africa | Assoc. Professor of Development Economics, Tufts University |
1:13 | 1:20 | Ken Strzepek | People, water and food in the Nile basin and the Zambezi valley | Research Scientist, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change |
1:21 | 1:28 | Angela Rigden | Climate and crop production | Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University |
BREAK | ||||
1:45 | 1:52 | Benjamin E. Wolfe | Fermented food microbiomes | Asst. Professor of Biology, Tufts University |
1:53 | 2:00 | Erin Hennessy | Digital Imaging for nutritional analysis of restaurant meals | Research Asst. Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University |
2:01 | 2:08 | Mahesh Karra | Long-term consequences of early life nutrition | Asst. Professor of Global Development Policy, Boston University |
2:09 | 2:16 | Karthish Manthiram | Using solar electricity to make nitrogen fertilizer | Asst. Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT |
2:17 | 2:24 | Mark Brennan | Innovations in food aid packaging | PhD Candidate, Humanitarian Response Lab, MIT |
2:25 | 2:32 | John P. Connors | Diversity across scales and the sustainability of food systems | Adj Rsch Asst Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University |
2:33 | 2:40 | Missy Holbrook | Plants that use less water | Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Harvard University |
2:41 | 2:48 | Alicia Harley | Social capital and sustainable development | Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow and PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School |
2:49 | 2:56 | Rachael Garrett | Scaling up sustainable intensification in South America | Asst. Professor, Dept of Earth and Environment, Boston University |
BREAK | ||||
3:15 | 3:22 | Colette Heald | Air pollution and global crop yields | Assoc. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT |
3:23 | 3:30 | Rama Bansil | Physics of gels in cooking & digestion | Professor of Physics, Boston University |
3:31 | 3:38 | Sarah Fletcher | Flexible water supply planning under uncertainty | PhD Candidate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT |
3:39 | 3:46 | Radost Stanimirova | Modeling and monitoring global rangeland dynamics | NASA Fellow and PhD candidate in geography, Boston University |
3:47 | 3:54 | Alison Brown | Diet and disease among U.S.-born and foreign-born non-Hispanic Blacks | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts Medical Center |
3:55 | 4:02 | Dan McKanan | The spiritual roots of modern environmentalism | Senior Lecturer in Divinity, Harvard University |
4:03 | 4:10 | Deborah Frank | Why a pediatrician cares about food security | Prof of Child Health and Well-Being, Boston University |
4:11 | 4:18 | William A. Masters | The weird global market for baby foods | Professor, School of Nutrition & Dept of Economics, Tufts University |
4:19 | 4:30 | Kelsey Jack | Closing remarks | J.L. Paddock Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University |
RECEPTION |