9 de setembro
9h00 Welcome Coffee
10h00 Opening Section
- Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
- Scientific Director, FAPESP
- Marcos S. Buckeridge
- Symposium organizer
10h30 Opening Conference
- The role of biomass in the world’s energy matrix
José Goldemberg
USP
11h30 Disassembling the plant cell wall to obtain energy
- Marcos S. Buckeridge
IB/USP
12h30 Lunch
14h00 The role of hydrolases on degradation of plant material
- Edivaldo Ximenes
Universidade de Brasília
14h40 Prospecting hydrolases of microorganisms and findind their potencial for bioenergy production
- Maria de Lourdes T.M. Polizeli
FFCLRP-USP
15h50 The potencial of fungal genetics and transformation for production of tools for cellulosic ethanol production
- Gustavo H. Goldman
FCFRP-USP
16h30 Hydrolysis of glycosides: key factors in biomass transformation to bioethanol production
- Igor Polikarpov
IFSC-USP
17h10 Plenary discussion
10 de setembro
9h00 Welcome Coffee
9h30 The SUCEST-FUN Project: Using genomic tools for the improvement of biomass in sugarcane
- Gláucia M. Souza
IQ/USP
10h10 Maize as a genetic model for the improvement of bioenergy grasses
- Nicholas C. Carpita
Purdue University - US
10h50 CoffeeBreak
11h20 Making a more fermentable plant via genetic engineering: a progress report
- Eric Lam
Rutgers University, US
12h00 Sugarcane biological diversity, breeding and molecular characterization of elite genotypes for ethanol biomass production
- Marcelo Erls Loureiro
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
12h40 Lunch
14h00 The eucalypt as a source of cellulosic ethanol
- Carlos A. Labate
ESALQ/USP
14h40 Using Physcomitrella genome as a model to learn about cell wall disassembly in plants
- Michael Lawton
Rutgers University, US
15h20 Plenary Discussion
- Closing