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FAPESP BIOENERGY PROGRAM - BIOEN

The BIOEN Program aims to integrate comprehensive research on sugarcane and other plants that can be used as biofuel sources, thus assuring Brazil’s position among the leaders in the area of Bioenergy. Research includes from biomass production and processing to biofuel production and its impacts.
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BIOEN WORKSHOP ON METABOLOMICS OF SUGARCANE

Dec 7th, 2009

 

PROGRAM

8:30 h Welcome Coffee

9:00 h Opening Session

9:15 h Metabolomics of sucrose accumulation in sugarcane (abstract)

Carlos A. Labate
Departamento de Genética-ESALQ/USP - Av. Pádua Dias 11, CP 83 - Piracicaba-SP - Brasil

9:35 h Research on Biomass at the Max-Planck-Institut for Molecular Plant Physiology (abstract)

Lothar Willmitzer
Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie - Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm - Germany

10:15 h A systems approach to cellulose synthesis (abstract)

Staffan Persson
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology - Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm - Germany

10:55 h Metabolomics: adding a powerful tool for sugar cane chemical profile studies (abstract)

Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani
Instituto de Química, NuBBE, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Araraquara, SP-Brasil

11:25 h Coffee Break

11:45h Monolignol profiling of lignin as selection tool for higher lignocellulose’s ethanol production efficiency (abstract)

Marcelo Ehlers Loureiro
Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde – CCB
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa - Viçosa, MG - Brasil

12:25 h Metabolomics-oriented Bioinformatics at the MPI for Molecular Plant Research

Dirk Walther
Institute of Biochemistry and biology - University of Potsdam

13:05 h Lunch Break

14:05 h Identification and characterization of metabolic QTL in Arabidopsis thaliana (abstract)

Jan Lisec
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology - Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm - Germany

14:45 h Adaptation of the metabolism of Serbania virgata to the storage compounds of the seeds (abstract)

Marco Aurélio Silva Tiné
Seção de Fisiologia e Bioquímica de Plantas – DJB - Ecofisiologia e Bioprospecção de Espécies Nativas
Instituto de Botânica, Secretaria do Meio Ambiente – SP - Brasil

15:25 h Metabolite and transcript interactions in response to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana (abstract)

Camila Caldana
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology - Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm - Germany

16:05 h Biochemical networks related to carbon accumulation in sugarcane (abstract)

Marcos Buckeridge
Department of Botany, University of São Paulo - Center of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (CTBE)
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (INCT-Bioentanol)

16:45 h Final Discussion

17:15 h Closing