I IBSB – Valorization of Renewable Resources – Recent Advances and Prospects: A Brazilian-German Technology Alliance
March 9th, 2018 | LNBR/CNPEM
This one-day workshop will promote interactions between members of academia, research centers, and industries from Germany and Brazil. The goal is to promote ideas that may lead to future collaborative R&D projects. There will be three sessions encompassing different technology platforms for biomass valorization. Each session will discuss techniques for biomass transformation considering:
- Biocatalytic processes;
- Chemo-catalysis and green chemistry;
- Electrocatalysis: energy as a renewable resource;
The first session will address novel strategies for application of biocatalysts, including combined catalytic processes, enzyme cascade reactions, novel enzymes and tolerant enzymatic processes.
The second session will bring forward ideas and novel concepts in electro and chemo-catalysis, in particular, the development of catalyst materials and chemical routes for biomass processing and production of chemicals. The use of energy as a renewable resource for the synthesis of value-added molecules will also be explored.
A third session, chaired by the TUM regional liaison office, will be dedicated to funding opportunities (involving the German Funding Agencies DAAD and DFG as well as the Funding Agency of the State of São Paulo – FAPESP) and EMBRAPII.
Program
| Time | Talk | Speaker | Institution |
| 08:30 | Registration and Welcome Coffee | ||
| Opening Session | |||
| 08:40 | Welcoming Lecture: CTBE – Research Institutional Programs and Facilities | Mario Murakami | CTBE/CNPEM |
| 09:20 | Welcoming Lecture: TUM – Making the best of biomass – enzymatic and chemoenzymatic reaction routes for sustainable production of chemicals | Volker Sieber | TUM |
| Session 1: Biocatalytic and fermentative processes | |||
| 10:00 | Unraveling the genetic basis of xylose consumption in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains | Leandro Santos | CTBE/CNPEM |
| 10:30 | Emerging enzymatic approaches to sustainable synthesis | Michael Richter | Fraunhofer IGB |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:20 | Adaptive evolution, genomics and synthetic biology for improving yeast tolerance to fermentation stresses | Jeferson Gross | UNESP |
| 11:40 | General Discussion | ||
| Session 2: Chemo and electrocatalytic processes | |||
| 12:00 | Chemoenzymatic synthesis of carbohydrate derivatives under continuous flow | Josef Sperl | TUM |
| 12:20 | Deconstructing the multiscale architecture of sugarcane biomass | Carlos Driemeier | CTBE/CNPEM |
| 12:40 | General Discussion | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Electrocatalysis: energy as a renewable resource for synthesis | Luciana Vieira | Fraunhofer IGB |
| 14:30 | Electrochemical valorization of glycerol | Pablo Fernandez | UNICAMP |
| 14:50 | Production of biochemicals and fuels from forest biomass fractionation and thermal depolymerization | Danilo Ribeiro de Lima | Fibria |
| 15:10 | Nitrocellulose: from renewable polymer to sustainable coatings | Ilton Castro | Nitro Química |
| Session 3: Cooperation between Brazil and Germany | |||
| 15:30 | Bioeconomy networks | Alexandre Martins | Fraunhofer IVV |
| 15:50 | Coffee break and discussion | ||
| 16:10 | TUM: Funding and Research Opportunities | Sören Metz | TUM |
| 16:30 | DFG Funding opportunities Brazil – Germany | Kathrin Winkler | DFG |
| 16:45 | DAAD Funding Opportunities | Anna Barkhausen | DAAD |
| 17:00 | EMBRAPII: R&D funding opportunities | Patrícia Toledo | CNPEM/Embrapii |
| 17:15 | FAPESP Funding Opportunities São Paulo – Germany | Alexandre Roccatto | FAPESP |
| 17:30 | Closing Remarks | Volker Sieber and Mario Murakami | TUM and CTBE/CNPEM |