Official Program
Time |
Session |
Confirmed Speakers |
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration | – |
| 9:00-9:20 | Opening | Opening session |
| 9:20-11:00 | Biomass | Managing crop residues for productivity, ecosystem services, and the bioeconomy | SLIDES Douglas Karlen United States Department of Agriculture – USDA, USA Sucre Project – lessons learned so far to recovery sugarcane straw for energy purposes | SLIDES
Biomass Processing and 2G Ethanol Production – CTC Technology Demonstration Facilities Energy cane as main biomass for second generation biofuels | SLIDES |
| Coffee break | ||
| 11:20-13:00 | Pretreatment | Novel DMR processing of corn stover achieves high monomeric sugar concentrations from enzymatic hydrolysis (230 g/L) and high ethanol concentration (10% v/v) during fermentation Xiaowen Chen National Renewable Energy Laboratory – NREL, USA Factors involving the development of glucan accessibility in pretreated cellulosic materials
Pretreatment interactions with the multiscale architecture of sugarcane bagasse | SLIDES Biomass pre-hydrolysis: a key step to sustainable biofuels |
| Lunch | ||
| 14:00-15:40 | Hydrolysis | Biomass Deconstruction by Thermophiles: What Have We Learned and Can We Improve Their Cellulolytic Activity? Yannick Bomble NREL, USA Engineering Trichoderma reesei for on-site cellulase production
What can we learn from Xanthomonas phytopathogens for plant cell wall depolymerization?
Novoymes Cellic enzymes — Tailored solutions for first-of-a kind commercial biorefineries |
| Coffee break | ||
| 16:00-17:20 | Alcoholic Fermentation | Cloning new sugar transporters and enzymes for second-generation bioethanol production by recombinant S. cerevisiae Boris Ugarte Stambuk Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil Development of a genomic atlas for second-generation ethanol production
Advanced Yeast Biocatalysts for Brazilian Ethanol Production |
| 17:20-19:00 |
Posters |
Presentation of the accepted posters. |
| Time | Session | Confirmed Speakers |
| 9:00-10:20 |
Biomaterials |
Development of advanced lignocellulosic bioproducts Enzymatic processing of plant-based cellulose for production of cellulose nanocrystals Cellulose nanofibers extracted from sugarcane bagasse as a platform for nanostructured materials |
| Coffee break | ||
| 10:40-12:40 |
Green Chemistry |
Innovative approaches to make the n-butanol fermentation economically viable Industrial Biotech: Amyris’ Case | SLIDES Challenges of the industrial biotechnology for the innovative chemical companies Innovation in renewable technologies Advancing Functional Materials: is ‘Green’ an Advanced Function? |
| Lunch | ||
| 14:00-16:00 |
2G Biorefineries |
Technological Opportunities in the Sugarcane Mill Axens’ innovative solutions for processing multiple biomass-derived feedstocks: an overview of Futurol Technologies™ | SLIDES Bringing Cellulosic Ethanol to Scale | SLIDES Progress and lessons learnt in commercializing cellulosic biofuels Production of 2G ethanol at Raizen |
| Coffee break | ||
| 16:20-18:00 |
Round Table: |
Igor Ferreira Bueno Artur Yabe Milanez | SLIDES Bernardo Silva Rubens Maciel Filho Raquel Coutinho | SLIDES |