Patrick Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Impossible Foods, will deliver a talk at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on Feb. 20.

The talk, “Doing the Impossible: Making the Global Food System Sustainable, One Burger at a Time,” is 3:30 p.m., Room 277 at the Food Innovation Center at Nebraska Innovation Campus, 2021 Transformation Drive. Brown’s presentation is free and open to the public.

Brown is passionate about sustainability and nutrition. He founded Impossible Foods in 2011 with the goal of making the global food system more sustainable by producing meat and dairy products from plants, which have a much lower environmental footprint.

Brown assembled a team of scientists, chefs, farmers and flavor experts to analyze meat at the molecular level to determine precisely why mean smells, handles, cooks and tastes the way it does. After developing an archive of proprietary research and technology, the company’s first product, the Impossible Burger, debuted in restaurants in 2016.

Prior to founding Impossible Foods, Brown had a distinguished career as a research scientist. A member of the National Academy of Science, he was a professor of biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Brown’s research group pioneered the use of gene expression patterns to improve classification, diagnosis and individualized treatment of human cancers.

For more information about the seminar, contact Devin Rose at drose3@unl.edu or 402-472-2802.