Bioen Workshop on Sugarcane Improvement Program (March 18, 19)

Opening
Glaucia Souza (IQ - USP, Coordenadora da Divisão de Pesquisa em Biomassa do Programa FAPESP em Bioenergia BIOEN)
Biotechnological Roadmap for Sugarcane Improvement

Opening Conference
Paul Moore (USDA, USA)
Sugarcane Biology and Yield

Coffee

Section 1: Gene Discovery and Sugarcane Genomics

Rosanne Casu (CSIRO, Australia)
Gene discovery as an aid to the understanding of agronomically important metabolic processes of sugarcane

Derek Watt (SASRI, South Africa)
Gene Discovery: Approaches, Developments and Applications to Sugarcane Improvement at the South African Sugarcane Research Institute

Glaucia Souza (IQ-USP)
The SUCEST-FUN Project: identifying genes associated to agronomic traits of interest in sugarcane

Debate
Debate leaders: Marie-Anne Van-Sluys (IB-USP), Manuel Sainz (Syngenta), Paulo Arruda (Allelyx)

Lunch

Section 2: Transgenics and Controlled Transgene Expression

Helaine Carrer (ESALQ)
Biotechnology Applications of Sugar Cane Genetic Transformation

Robert Birch (University of Queensland, Australia)
Can we deliver controlled transgene expression in sugarcane?

João Carlos Bespalhok (UFPR, Brazil)
When we will have a transgenic sugarcane?

Debate
Debate leaders: Marcelo Menossi (IB-UNICAMP), Eduardo Romano (EMBRAPA), Eugenio Ulian (Monsanto)

Coffee

Section 3: Photosynthesis, sucrose metabolism, drought and sugar physiology

Rowan Sage (University of Toronto)
Mechanisms controlling the response of C4 photosynthesis to temperature

Marcos Buckeridge (IB-USP)
The role of gibberelins in the control of carbohydrate metabolism in seedlings
of sugarcane: a possible relationship between cell wall expansion and
sucrose accumulation

Graham Bonnett (CSIRO, Australia)
Environmental and genetic manipulation of carbon partitioning between growth and storage in sugarcane

Laurício Endres (UFAL)
Ecophysiology applied to sugarcane

Debate
Debate leaders: Rejane Mansur (UFRPE), Paul Moore (USDA), Katia Scortecci (UFRN)

Lunch

Section 4: Breeding and Statistical Genetics

Marcos Sanches (UFSCAR)
Development of sugarcane cultivars by the RIDESA Breeding Program

Augusto Garcia (ESALQ)
Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Traits in Sugarcane

Robert Henry (Southern Cross University)
Genomics based approaches to genetic improvement in sugarcane

Debate
Debate leaders: Anete de Souza (CBMEG-UNICAMP), Jorge da Silva (TAMU), Walter Maccheroni (Canavialis), Marcos Landell (IAC), William Burniquist (CTC)g