Program

Start FAPESP Week - Preliminary Program
  October 24th
08:40 Opening session
Flom Auditorium - 6th floor

Welcome
Michael van Dusen, Vice-president, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 
Mauro Vieira, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
 
Opening Remarks:
Celso Lafer, President, FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation
Cora B. Marrett, NSF – National Science Foundation
Paulo Sotero, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Daniel Janies, OSUMC - Ohio State University Medical Center
09:40 Science and Technology in São Paulo, Brazil
  Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP:  “An overview of S&T in São Paulo, Brazil
10:10 Coffee break
10:25 Session 1 - Optics and Photonics (Session Chair: Marie-Anne van Sluys, USP) (20 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Hugo Fragnito, UNICAMP – University of Campinas:"The Optics and Photonics Research Center at Unicamp"

Paulo Nussenzveig, USP – University of São Paulo: "Multicolor quantum entanglement"

Carlos Lenz Cesar, UNICAMP – University of Campinas: "Totally Integrated Linear and Non-Linear Optics Multimodal Microscopy Platform to Understand Single Cell Processes"

Vanderlei Bagnato, USP – University of São Paulo: "Investigations of Quantum Turbulence in an Atomic Superfluid: generation and characterization"

Michal Lipson, Cornell University: "The revolution of silicon photonics"
12:30 Lunch
Wilson Center Dining Hall – 6th floor
Welcome: Anthony Harrington, President, Brazil Institute Advisory Board and Ricardo Renzo Brentani, Chief Executive, FAPESP
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Lovejoy, George Mason University
  Climate Change, Biodiversity, and the Amazon
Flom Auditorium - 6th floor 
14:00 Session 2 - Climate Change (Session Chair: John Wenzel, Carnegie MNH) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Reynaldo L. Victoria, USP – University of São Paulo:"The FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change"

Gilberto Câmara, INPE – National Institute For Space Research: "Land change and human-environment interactions in Amazonia: integrative modelling approaches"

Robert O. Green, JPL – Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "Measurement of the Earth's Terrestrial Ecosystems from Space: Concept for a 21st Century Global Biochemistry and Biodiversity Mission."
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Session 3 - Biodiversity, and the Amazon (Session Chair: Reynaldo Victoria, USP and FAPESP) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Carlos Joly, Unicamp: "BIOTA+10: a Successful Experience in Combining Biodiversity Research, Personnel Training, Bioprospection and Public-policy Impact, in Sao Paulo, Brazil"

Humberto R. Rocha, USP – University of São Paulo: "Strategic assessment of environmental services with technological tools to help decision making"

Paulo Artaxo, USP – University of São Paulo: "The changing atmospheric composition in Amazonia"

Ana Carnaval, CUNY – The City College of New York: "Evolutionary biogeography and biodiversity prediction in the Atlantic forest hotspot: an example of a successful Brazil-US partnership"

John Wenzel, MNH – Carnegie Museum of Natural History: "Growth of phylogenetic systematics in Brazil, and it significance to studies of biodiversity"
18:15 Opening Reception of the Exhibit “Brazilian Nature”
Remarks: Carlos Joly, UNICAMP – University of Campinas
Flom Auditorium - 6th floor
   
  October 25th
08:40 Session 4 - Plant Genomics  (Session Chair: Glaucia Souza, USP) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Marie Anne van Sluys, USP – University of São Paulo: "Noise or Symphony: how to make sense of transposable elements"

Paulo Arruda, UNICAMP – University of Campinas: "From Genomic Science to a Biotechnology Startup: the Alellyx Experience"

Erich Grotewold, OSU – Ohio State University: "From Plant Systems Biology to Renewable Fuels"
10:10 Coffee break
10:25 Session 5 - Bioenergy (Session Chair: Erich Grotewold, OSU) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Glaucia Souza, USP – University of São Paulo: "FAPESP Program for Bioenergy Research (BIOEN)"

Carlos Calmanovici, ETH Bioenergia: "Building an R&D program for bioenergy production from sugarcane in Brazil"

Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth: "Launching a Second Generation Ethanol Industry in Brazil"

Fernanda Gandara, The Synthetic Genomics: Revolution - Harnessing the power of biology to solve global problems
12:25 Lunch break
14:00 Session 6 - American and Brazilian Studies (Session Chair: Fernanda Gandara, Synthetic Genomics) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Tullo Vigevani, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho: "A center for U.S. Studies in Brazil"

Tulia G. Falleti, University of Pennsylvania: "Universal Health Care and Local Community Participation in Brazil"

Elizabeth Stein, UNO - The University of New Orleans: "Investigative Journalism & Collective Action In Brazilian Democracy: A Positive Legacy Of Authoritarian Repression"
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Session 7 - Urban Studies and Political Science (Session Chair: Tullo Vigevani, Unesp) (25 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Marta Arretche, USP – University of São Paulo: "Subnational governance and public policies in Brazil"

Fernando Limongi, USP – University of São Paulo: "Democracy and Legislative Studies" (tbc)

Scott Desposato, UCSD - University of California, San Diego
18:30 Reception offered by the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, Mauro Vieira
Residence of the Brazilian Ambassador
   
  October 26th
08:40 Session 8 - Vaccines, Drugs (Session Chair: Valder Arruda, U. Penn.) (20 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Donald Francis, GSID - Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases: "Butantan: Developing a dengue vaccine for Brazil"

Jorge Kalil, Instituto Butantan: "Butantan Institute: Research and Production in Immunobiologicals"

Hugo Armelin, USP – University of São Paulo: "Cell signaling and Toxins"

Sara Lustigman, New York Blood Center: "Plasmodium falciparum in Brazil: red blood cell variants & parasite invasion"

Licio Veloso, UNICAMP – University of Campinas: "New targets for drug therapy in obesity and related disorders" 
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Session 9 - Cancer Research, Stem Cells Research and Genetic Diseases Research (Session Chair: Sara Lustigman, NY Blood Center) (20 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Mayana Zatz, USP – University of São Paulo: "Stem cells investigation aiming cell therapy and as a tool to understand gene function in genetic disorders"

Ricardo Brentani, A.C. Camargo Cancer Hospital & FAPESP: "Molecular genomics and genetics in the management of cancer"

Fernando F Costa, UNICAMP – University of Campinas: "Potential drug targets for vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease: Endothelial cell interactions and inflammation"

Valder Arruda, UPenn: "Cancer Research, Stem Cells Research and Genetic Diseases Research" 
12:40 Lunch break
14:00

Session 10 - Global Infectious Diseases (Session Chair: Don Francis, GSID) (20 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Walter Colli, USP – University of São Paulo: "Trypanosoma cruzi: parasite interaction with mammalian host cells"

Wondwossen Gebreyes, OSUVM – Ohio State University Veterinary Preventive Medicine: "VPH-Biotech Global Consortium"

Daniel Janies, OSUMC - Ohio State University Medical Center: "Supramap – Weather Maps for Infectious Diseases Based on Analysis of Genomic and Geographic Data"

Jane Buikstra, ASU – Arizona State University: "Tuberculosis: a deep time perspective"

Vera Calich, USP – University of São Paulo: "Regulatory T cells, Th17 cells and TLRs: crucial roles in the immunity to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis infection"

16:05 Coffee Break
16:20

Session 11 - Tropical Diseases (Session Chair: Jane Buikstra, ASU) (20 min plus 5 min for Q&A for each presentation)

Sergio Shenkman, UNIFESP: "Post-genomic studies of Trypanosomes: Towards parasitic disease control"

Elodie Ghedin, PITT: "Host-pathogen interaction networks in parasitic infections viewed by deep sequencing"

Marcelo Urbano Ferreira, USP: "Origins and Evolution of Antigenic Diversity in Malaria Parasites"

Nikolaos Vasilakis, UTMB - The University of Texas Medical Branch: "Dengue - a virus without borders"

18:10 Conference Closing Reception
Woodrow Wilson Monumental Hall
   

Program Committee
Carlos H de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director, FAPESP
Daniel Janies, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University