BIOEN WORKSHOP ON SUGARCANE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
March 18th Wednesday
9:00 h
Abertura
Glaucia Souza (IQ - USP, Coordenadora da Divisão de Pesquisa em Biomassa do Programa FAPESP em Bioenergia BIOEN)
Biotechnological Roadmap for Sugarcane Improvement
9:15 h
Opening Conference
Paul Moore (USDA, USA)
Sugarcane Biology and Yield
Coffee 10:00 – 10:30 am
Section 1: Gene Discovery and Sugarcane Genomics
10:30 h Rosanne Casu (CSIRO, Australia)
Gene discovery as an aid to the understanding of agronomically important metabolic processes of sugarcane
11:00 h Derek Watt (SASRI, South Africa)
Gene Discovery: Approaches, Developments and Applications to Sugarcane Improvement at the South African Sugarcane Research Institute
11:30 h Glaucia Souza (IQ-USP)
The SUCEST-FUN Project: identifying genes associated to agronomic traits of interest in sugarcane
12:00 h Debate
Debate leaders: Marie-Anne Van-Sluys (IB-USP), Manuel Sainz (Syngenta), Paulo Arruda (Allelyx)
12:30 h
Lunch
Section 2: Transgenics and Controlled Transgene Expression
14:00 h Helaine Carrer (ESALQ)
Biotechnology Applications of Sugar Cane Genetic Transformation
14:30 h Robert Birch (University of Queensland, Australia)
Can we deliver controlled transgene expression in sugarcane?
15:00 h João Carlos Bespalhok (UFPR, Brazil)
When we will have a transgenic sugarcane?
15:30 h Debate
Debate leaders: Marcelo Menossi (IB-UNICAMP), Maria Fátima Grossi de Sá (EMBRAPA), Eugenio Ulian (Monsanto)
March 19th Thursday
9:00 h coffee
Section 3: Photosynthesis, sucrose metabolism, drought and sugar physiology
9:30 h Rowan Sage (University of Toronto)
C4 photosynthesis and Climate Change
10:00 h Marcos Buckeridge (IB-USP)
The role of giberellins in the control of carbohydrate metabolism in seedlings of sugarcane: a possible relationship between cell wall expansion and sucrose accumulation
10:30 h Graham Bonnett (CSIRO, Australia)
Environmental and genetic manipulation of carbon partitioning between growth and storage in sugarcane
11:00 h Laurício Endres (UFAL)
Ecophysiology applied to sugarcane
11:30 h Debate
Debate leaders: Tercílio Calsa (UFPE) , Paul Moore (USDA), Katia Scortecci (UFRN)
12:30 h Lunch
Section 4: Breeding and Statistical Genetics
14:30 h Marcos Sanches (UFSCAR)
Development of sugarcane cultivars by the RIDESA Breeding Program
15:00 h Augusto Garcia (ESALQ)
Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Traits in Sugarcane
15:30 h Robert Henry (Southern Cross University)
Genomics based approaches to genetic improvement in sugarcane
16:00 h Debate
Debate leaders: Anete de Souza (CBMEG-UNICAMP), Jorge da Silva (TAMU), Walter Maccheroni (Canavialis), Marcos Landell (IAC), William Burniquist (CTC), Roland Vencovsky (ESALQ)