Program
| March 28, 2016 | March 29, 2016 | March 31, 2016 | April 1, 2016 |
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08:00 |
01:00 |
Welcome Breakfast |
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09:00 |
01:00 |
1. Opening Session |
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| Chair: Michele Heisler (UM – Medical School) | ||||
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09:00 |
00:15 |
Welcome from UM
James Holloway (Vice-Provost, UM Global and Engaged Education)
Alexandra Minna Stern (Director, UM Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Brazil Initiative)
Joseph Kolars (Director, Global REACH / UM – Medical School)
Pauline Jones Luong (Director, UM International Institute)
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09:15 |
00:45 |
Opening Speech
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP Scientific Director)
Science and Technology in São Paulo, Brazil
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10:00 |
00:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30 |
01:40 |
2. Environment, Governance and Sustainability |
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| Chair: Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini (CEMADEN) | ||||
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10:30 |
00:20 |
Maria Carmen Lemos (UM – School of Natural Resources & Environment)
Gabriela Marques di Giulio (University of São Paulo – Public Health)
Climate Change, Risks, and Adaptation: Handling the Challenges |
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10:50 |
00:20 |
Victor Li (UM – Materials Science and Engineering)
Holmer Savastano Junior (University of São Paulo – Animal Science and Food Engineering)
Infrastructure Sustainability |
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11:10 |
00:20 |
Noah Webster (UM – Institute for Social Research)
Robert W. Marans (UM – Architecture and Urban Planning)
U-M’s Sustainable Cultural Indicators Program: An Overview |
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11:30 |
00:20 |
Tadeu Malheiros (University of São Paulo – Engineering) Sustainability Assessment – Pushing Universities to Play Their Role |
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11:50 |
00:20 |
Q+A | ||
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12:10 |
01:00 |
Lunch on site – Catered by Michigan Union (for lunch pre-registrants only) |
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13:10 |
02:00 |
3. Genetics and Genomics: Identifying Disease Causing Genes |
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| Chair: Sally Camper (UM – Medical School) | ||||
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13:10 |
00:20 |
Antonio Marcondes Lerario (UM – Medical School)
Collaborative studies on the Genomics of Adrenocortical Cancer
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13:30 |
00:20 |
Brian Byrd (UM – Medical School)
Treatment-Resistant Hypertension: Challenges, and Opportunities for Personalized Medicine
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13:50 |
00:20 |
Alexandre da Costa Pereira (University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Genetic Mapping of Complex Phenotypes in the Brazilian Population
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14:10 |
00:20 |
Gisele Wally Braga Colleoni (Federal University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Cellular and Molecular Markers in the Development and Prognosis of Lymphoproliferative Disorders |
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14:30 |
00:20 |
Nils Walter (UM – Chemistry)
Single Molecule Microscopy Dissects and Detects Non-Coding RNA
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14:50 |
00:20 |
Q+A | ||
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15:10 |
00:20 |
Coffee Break |
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15:30 |
02:10 |
4. Human Health |
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| Chair: Marcos Montagnini (UM – Medical School) | ||||
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15:30 |
00:20 |
Michele Heisler (UM – Medical School)
Alexandra Brentani (University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Child Development in Poor Urban Settings |
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15:50 |
00:20 |
Henry Paulson (UM – Medical School)
Partnering to Find Cures for Ataxia
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16:10 |
00:20 |
Iscia Teresinha Lopes-Cendes (University of Campinas – Medical Sciences)
The Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed)
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16:30 |
00:20 |
Denise Tate (UM – Medical School)
Common Data in Spinal Cord Injury: Finding Ways to Collaborate Across Borders
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16:50 |
00:20 |
Linamara Battistella (University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Advances in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Research
Julia M. D. Greve (University of São Paulo – Medicine) Driver evaluation model of people with special needs: elder and SCI
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17:10 |
00:20 |
Q+A | ||
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17:30 – 20:00 |
Dinner at the Michigan Union (Pendleton Room) – Hosted by the BI/LACS (for dinner pre-registrants only) |
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08:00 |
01:00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 |
01:40 |
5. Engineering and Technology |
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| Chair: Paulo Sergio Franco Barbosa (University of Campina – Civil Engineering) | |||||
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09:00 |
00:20 |
Jon Lee (UM – Industrial and Operations Engineering)
Nonconvex Optimization
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09:20 |
00:20 |
Daniel Inman (UM – Aerospace Engineering)
Avian Inspired Morphing Aircraft
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09:40 |
00:20 |
João Luiz Filgueiras de Azevedo (Institute of Aeronautics and Space – Aerospace Engineering)
Computational Aerodynamics Applications in Aerospace Engineering)
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10:00 |
00:20 |
Edson Cocchieri Botelho (São Paulo State University – Aerospace Engineering)
Advances in Thermoplastic Composite Materials Used in Aerospace Applications
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10:20 |
00:20 |
Carlos E. S. Cesnik (UM – Aerospace Engineering)
Aeroelastic Challenges in Very Flexible Aircraft
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10:40 |
00:30 |
Q+A | |||
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11:10 |
00:20 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 |
01:00 |
6. U.S.-Brazil Relations and Policies (round table) |
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| Chair: Lenny A. Ureña Valerio (Academic Program Manager, UM Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies) | |||||
| Paulo Sotero (Brazil Institute at Wilson Center) | |||||
| Melvyn Levitsky (UM – Ford School of Public Policy) | |||||
| Q+A | |||||
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12:30 |
01:00 |
Lunch on site – Catered by Michigan Union (for lunch pre-registrants only) |
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13:30 |
02:00 |
7. Issues in Law and Social Justice – Slavery and Human Trafficking, Genetics and Human Rights (round table) |
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| Chair: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (UM – History) | |||||
| Paulina Alberto (UM – History) | |||||
| Sueann Caulfield (UM – History) | |||||
| Sidney Chalhoub (University of Campinas – History) | |||||
| Rebecca Scott (UM – History) | |||||
| Jean Hébrard (UM – History) | |||||
| Eduarda La Rocque (UM guest speaker) | |||||
| Q+A | |||||
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15:30 |
00:15 |
Coffee Break |
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| 15:45 |
01:15 |
8. Closing Session: Funding Collaboration and Next Steps (round table) |
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| Chair: Alexandra Minna Stern (Director, UM Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Brazil Initiative) | |||||
| Maria Carmen Lemos (UM – School of Natural Resources & Environment) | |||||
| Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck (University of São Paulo – Chemistry) | |||||
| Timothy Robert B. Johnson (UM – Medical School) | |||||
| Marcelo Knobel (Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory and University of Campinas – Physics) | |||||
| Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP Scientific Director) | |||||
| Q&A | |||||
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08:00 |
01:00 |
Opening Breakfast |
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09:00 |
01:30 |
1. Opening Session |
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| Chair: Caroline Whitacre (Vice President for Research – OSU) | |||||
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09:00 |
00:45 |
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP Scientific Director)
Science and Technology in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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09:45 |
00:45 |
Caroline Whitacre (Vice President for Research – OSU)
OSU-FAPESP Grant Program: How it came about
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10:30 |
00:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 |
01:45 |
2. Decision Making and Decision Sciences |
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| Chair: Amanda Robinson (OSU) | |||||
| 11:00 | 00:20 | Amanda Robinson (OSU)
Who’s Targeted for Corruption? The Effects of Political Connections, Socioeconomic Status, and Coethnicity on Exposure to Corruption
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| 11:20 | 00:20 | Katie Coffman (OSU)
Gender, Assertiveness, and Economic Decisions
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| 11:40 | 00:20 | Jose Antonio Marengo Orsini (CEMADEN)
The METROPOLE Project: An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaption to Sea-Level Rise in Santos, São Paulo-Brazil
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| 12:00 | 00:20 | Gabriela Marques di Giulio (University of São Paulo – Public Health)
Making Science more Useful to Decision-making in Risk Situations
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| 12:20 | 00:20 | Lucas Coffman (OSU)
Decision Making in Schooling for Brazilian Children
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| 12:40 | 00:10 | Q+A | |||
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02:00 |
01:20 |
3. Agriculture and Water |
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| Chair: (OSU) | |||||
| 02:00 | 00:20 | Linda Weavers (OSU)
Developing Ultrasound as a Technology for Pollution Control
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| 02:20 | 00:20 | Scott Shearer (OSU)
Precision Agriculture
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| 02:40 | 00:20 | Tadeu F. Malheiros (University of São Paulo – Engineering)
Sustainability Assessment – Pushing Universities to Play their Role
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| 03:00 | 00:20 | Paulo Sergio Franco Barbosa (University of Campinas – Civil Engineering)
Water and Energy Supply: Research Challenges to Address Natural Variability, Growing Demand and Sustainability
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| 03:20 | 00:20 | Q+A | |||
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03:40 |
00:20 |
Break |
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04:00 |
01:20 |
4. Bioinformatics and Data Analytics |
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| Chair: Raghu Machiraju (OSU) | |||||
| 04:00 | 00:20 | Srinivasan Parthasarathy (OSU)
Data Visualization
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| 04:20 | 00:20 | Alvaro Montenegro (OSU)
Systems Modeling of Geospatial Information
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| 04:40 | 00:20 | David Correa Martins Jr. (Federal University of ABC – Computer Science)
Gene Interaction Networks Inference and Search for Complex Disease Biomarkers by Complex Networks Analysis and Data Integration
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| 05:00 | 00:20 | João Luiz Filgueiras de Azevedo (Institute of Aeronautics and Space – Aerospace Engineering)
Extracting Relevant Flowfield Information from Large Unsteady Datasets
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| 05:20 | 00:20 | Q+A | |||
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08:00 |
01:00 |
Breakfast |
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09:00 |
02:00 |
5. Materials and Manufacturing |
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| Chair: Edson Cocchieri Botelho (São Paulo State University – Aerospace Engineering) | |||||
| 09:00 | 00:20 | Chris Hammel (Center for Emergent Materials – OSU)
Pure Spin Transport in Diverse Materials Systems
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| 09:20 | 00:20 | Carlos Castro (OSU)
Encoding mechanical function in DNA sequences
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| 09:40 | 00:20 | Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck (University of São Paulo – Chemistry)
Discovery and Development of Bioactive Natural Products
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| 10:00 | 00:20 | Marcelo Knobel (Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory and University of Campinas – Physics)
Advances in Nanomagnetism
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| 10:20 | 00:20 | Holmer Savastano Junior (University of São Paulo)
Non-conventional and Sustainable Inorganic-bonded Fiber Composites
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| 10:40 | 00:20 | Q+A | |||
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11:00 |
00:15 |
Break |
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11:15 |
01:30 |
6. Brazil, Latin America, and the U.S. (round table) |
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| Chair: Sarah Brooks (OSU) | |||||
| Sarah Brooks (OSU) | |||||
| Marcus Kurtz (OSU) | |||||
| Paulo Sotero (Brazil Institute at Wilson Center) | |||||
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01:30 |
02:00 |
7. Medicine and Health |
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| Chair: Alexandra Brentani (University of São Paulo – Medicine) | |||||
| 01:30 | 00:20 | David Symer (OSU) Molecular Genetics and Cancer | |||
| 01:50 | 00:20 | Sudha Agarwal (OSU) Collaborations with Brazil | |||
| 02:10 | 00:20 | Marta Imamura (University of São Paulo – Medicine)
New trends in Rehabilitation – Patient profiling as pain biomakers
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| 02:30 | 00:20 | Linamara Battistella (University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Advances in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Research
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| 02:50 | 00:20 | Gisele Wally Braga Colleoni (Federal University of São Paulo – Medicine)
Cellular and Molecular Markers in the Development and Prognosis of Lymphoproliferative Disorders
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| 03:10 | 00:20 | Q+A | |||
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03:30 |
00:15 |
Break |
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03:45 |
01:00 |
8. Panel Discussion: Funding Research and Innovation (round table) |
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| Chair: Caroline Whitacre (Vice President for Research – OSU) | |||||
| Mike Boehm (Vice Provost for Academic and Strategic Planning – OSU) | |||||
| Dan Kramer (Industry Liaison Office – OSU) | |||||
| Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP Scientific Director) | |||||
| Discussion | |||||
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04:45 |
00:10 |
9. Closing Session | |||
| Caroline Whitacre (Vice President for Research – OSU) | |||||
| Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP Scientific Director) | |||||