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Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference – BBEST 2017 "Designing a Sustainable Bioeconomy"
Campos do Jordão, SP – Brazil, 16-19 October 2017

Monday	Oct 16th, 2017

14:00 – 17:00	Tutorials
	Room Aspen	Room Vail	Room Bariloche	Room Courchevel
	T1: Entrepreneurship – creation, sustainable innovation and business plan	T2: Sustainability in the water-bioenergy-land use nexus: challenges and opportunities for sustainability	T3: Sugarcane and/or Energy Cane	T4: Industrial production of biofuels: learning through experience
	Andreas Braun (BSP Business School Berlin, Germany) Gonçalo A. G. Pereira (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)	Graham Jewitt (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) Fabio Scarpare (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	Jorge da Silva (Texas AM, USA) Geraldo Veríssimo (RIDESA, Brazil) Hermann Paulo Hoffmann (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)	Paulo Seleghim Jr. (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) David Chiaramonti (University of Florence, Italy) Marcos Watanabe (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)

Tuesday	Oct 17th, 2017 –POLICY DAY
	Room Aspen + Vail
9:00 – 9:30	BBEST OPENING CEREMONY
	Glaucia M. Souza (BIOEN-FAPESP and USP, Brazil) and Luuk van der Wielen (BE-Basic, The Netherlands) - Conference Chairs Heitor Cantarella (IAC, Brazil), Marcio de Castro Silva Filho (USP, Brazil), Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP and UNICAMP, Brazil), José Goldemberg (FAPESP, Brazil)
9:30 – 10:00	Plenary 1: Renewable Energy – Challenges and Perspectives
	chair: José Goldemberg (FAPESP, Brazil)
	Challenges and perspectives for bioenergy as a renewable energy source Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
10:00 – 11:30	Roundtable 1: Designing a Sustainable Bioeconomy
	chair: Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP and UNICAMP, Brazil)
10:00 – 10:40	Delivering sustainable bioenergy Adam Brown (International Energy Agency, UK)
10:40 – 10:55	A new model for sustainable expansion of biofuel production in Brazil: sugarcane biomass to biofuels and animal feed Bruce Dale (Michigan State University, USA)
10:55 – 11:10	The Brazilian agribusiness in the emerging bioeconomy Maurício A. Lopes (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brazil)
11:10 – 11:30	Questions & Answers
11:30	Lunch
13:00 – 14:30	Roundtable 2: Bioenergy & Bioeconomy for Climate Mitigation Efforts
	chair: Paulo Artaxo (USP, Brazil)
13:00 – 13:40	RenovaBio Plinio Nastari (DATAGRO, Brazil)
13:40 – 13:55	The challenge of not exceeding the 1.5 ºC guardrail and the role of bioenergy in Brazil Carlos Nobre (Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Mudanças Climáticas, Brazil)
13:55 – 14:10	The Paris agreement and the transition to the low-carbon transport sector: the role of the Biofuture Platform Renato D. Godinho (Biofuture Platform - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil)
14:10 – 14:30	Questions & Answers
14:30	Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30	Roundtable 3: Bioenergy & Bioeconomy – Leadership in Bioeconomy
	chair: Wilson Nobre Filho (FGV, Brazil)
15:00 – 15:30	Achieving the advanced bioeconomy through industrial biotechnology Bernardo Silva (Associação Brasileira de Biotecnologia Industrial, Brazil)
15:30 – 16:00	CLIB: the German model in bioeconomy partnering Manfred Kircher (CLIB2021, Germany)
16:00 – 16:15	Natural products from sugarcane industry – would be a player in the future Brazilian bioeconomy? Paulo Cézar Vieira (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
16:15 – 16:30	Questions & Answers
16:30 – 18:00	Roundtable 4: Bioenergy & Bioeconomy – Market Development
	chair: Celso Antonio Barbosa (FIESP, Brazil)
16:30 – 17:10	BioEnergy and BioEconomy: markets, strategy, and GHG emissions reduction Paul Stuart (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
17:10 – 17:25	Bioenergy and Bioeconomy – carbon value Jeffrey Skeer (International Renewable Energy Agency, Germany)
17:25 – 17:40	Developing markets for biofuels and bioproducts: challenges and opportunities for the EU industry David Chiaramonti (University of Florence, Italy)
17:40 – 18:00	Questions & Answers
18:00 – 19:30	Poster Session
20:00	SPEAKERS DINNER

Wednesday	Oct 18th, 2017

	Room Aspen	Room Vail	Room Bariloche	Room Courchevel
	PS 1 - Second-generation biofuels & Biomaterials: modified biomass	PS 2 - Feedstock production: perspectives on increasing yield	PS 3 - BIOEN Highlights I: Sustainability Division	PS 4 - Second-generation biofuels & Biomaterials: modified microorganisms
	chair: Glaucia M. Souza (USP, Brazil)	chair: Heitor Cantarella (IAC, Brazil)	chair: Antonio Bonomi (CTBE, Brazil)	chair: Marie-Anne Van Sluys (USP, Brazil)
9:00 – 9:20	Engineering sugarcane cell wall hydrolysis Marcos Buckeridge (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	Increasing sugarcane gains through historical partnerships and private investments Walter Maccheroni Junior (Grupo São Martinho, Brazil)	(8204) Linking soil microbiome with sustainability Eiko Kuramae (Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Microbial Ecology, The Netherlands)	Development of renewable ionic liquids for biomass conversion Blake Simmons (Joint BioEnergy Institute, USA)
9:20 – 9:40	Beginning to ‘design’ biomass lignins for the biorefinery John Ralph (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)	Miscanthus genetic resources for improving biomass yield and their potential to also improve sugarcane Erik Sacks (University of Illinois, USA)	(8227) The balance of greenhouse gases for a sugarcane plantation in Brazil Osvaldo Machado Rodrigues Cabral (Embrapa Meio Ambiente - Solo-Planta-Atmosfera, Brazil)	Improving sugars utilization and inhibitors tolerance in yeast via adaptive laboratory evolution Solange Mussatto (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
9:40 – 10:00	(8066) Silencing of a single cell wall-related gene decreases cell wall feruloylation and increases digestibility of biomass in grasses Wagner Rodrigo de Souza (Embrapa Agroenergy - Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Brazil)	A complex region of the sugarcane genome syntenic to a soghum QTL linked to sugar accumulation Anete Pereira de Souza (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)	(8082) Sustainability of intensified pastureland: land cover monitoring Rubens Augusto Camargo Lamparelli (University of Campinas - Interdisciplinary Center on Energy Planning, Brazil)	Thermophilic consolidated bioprocessing with cotreatment: a potentially disruptive paradigm for low-cost second generation ethanol production Lee Lynd (Dartmouth College, USA)
10:00 – 10:20	(8100) Genomic and transcriptomic overview of SHINE (SHN) regulatory grid and its role as a master regulator of plant secondary cell wall biosynthesis Michael dos Santos Brito (Instituto Agronômico de Campinas - Centro de Cana - Biotecnologia, Brazil)	(8139) Genome-wide association study of oil and fatty acids in diverse soybean genotypes Regina Helena Geribello Priolli (Universidade Santa Cecília - PPG ECOMAR and Universidade Estadual de Campinas - NEPA/Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Alimentação, Brazil)	(8244) On the impact of the agro-environment: the new profile of the sugar alcohol occupation José Giacomo Baccarin (Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil)	*(8116) Physiological responses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae* strains in the presence of furans and organic acids from lignocellulosic residues** Thiago Olitta Basso (Escola Politécnica - University of São Paulo, Brazil)
10:30	Coffee break
	Room Aspen	Room Vail	Room Bariloche	Room Courchevel
	PS 5 - Energy densification and logistics; Process optimization	PS 6 - BIOEN Highlights II: Biomass Division	PS 7 - BIOEN Highlights III: Biorefineries and Engines Divisions	PS 8 - Biobased chemicals
	chair: Lucas Gonçalves Pereira (CTBE, Brazil)	chair: Rafael V. Ribeiro (UNICAMP, Brazil)	chair: Marcos D. B. Watanabe (CTBE, Brazil)	chair: Rubens Maciel Filho (UNICAMP, Brazil)
11:00 – 11:20	Advances in mechanical preprocessing of high moisture biomass: impact on quality, cost, and performance Jaya S. Tumuluru (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)	A systems biology approach to study lignification in C4 grasses Igor Cesarino (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	Ethanol use in transportation: research needs Waldyr L. R. Gallo (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)	Fibria initiatives towards biobased materials production Danilo Ribeiro de Lima (Fibria, Brazil)
11:20 – 11:40	Biomass preprocessing to produce conversion ready feedstocks Jaya S. Tumuluru (Idaho National Laboratory, USA), replacing Richard Hess (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)	Microalgae biomass accumulation and lipid production under the lens of omics approaches Flavia V. Winck (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	(8239) Flexible production of butanol and ethanol integrated to a kraft pulp mill Adriano Pinto Mariano (University of Campinas - School of Chemical Engineering, Brazil)	Production of bio-derived chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass: challenges, mitigation strategies and select success stories Thaddeus Ezeji (Ohio State University, USA)
11:40 – 12:00	(8263) Development of a controller based on metabolic fluxes for micro-aerated conditions: maximization of ethanol production Teresa Cristina Zangirolami (Universidade Federal de São Carlos - Departamento de Engenharia Química, Brazil)	(8281) Organ specific rhythms of transcription in field-grown sugarcane Carlos Takeshi Hotta (Instituto de Química - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	(8336) Distillation with parallel streams applied to biorefinery mixtures Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles (University of Campinas - School of Food Engineering, Brazil)	(8321) Challenges and dilemmas in product innovations in the biobased industry Jose Vitor Bomtempo (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Escola de Química, Brazil)
12:00 – 12:20	(8313) Heat integration in a combined 1st and 2nd generation bioethanol production process: targeting the cost reduction, environmental impact, and energy consumption Pablo Andrés Silva Ortiz (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Faculdade de Engenharia Química, Brazil)	(8196) Total recoverable sugar prediction through agronomic variables and canopy sensing Lucas Rios do Amaral (University of Campinas - School of Agricultural Engineering, Brazil)	(8228) Bio-oil and phenolic resin production from forest products wastes: a biomass cascade approach Alcides Lopes Leao (Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas - UNESP, Brazil)	(8132) Retro-techno-economic analysis applied to a 1G-2G ethanol biorefinery Felipe Fernando Furlan (Federal University of São Carlos - Chemical Engineering Department, Brazil)
12:20 – 12:40	(8080) Multiscale architecture of sugarcane bagasse and its importance for cellulosic ethanol Carlos Eduardo Driemeier (Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais - CTBE, Brazil)	(8176) Genetic modification of sugarcane and rice to improve biomass for biofuels Silvana Creste Dias de Souza (Instituto Agronômico - Centro de Cana, Brazil)	(8235) Experimental characterization of combustion processes in a SI engine fuelled with syngas and methane Santiago Daniel Martinez Boggio (Instituto Tecnológico Aeronáutico - Laboratório de Combustão, Propulsão e Energia, Brazil)	(8137) Sugarcane syrup and molasses as nutrients for xylitol production from hemicellulosic hydrolysate of mixture of bagasse and straw Andrés Felipe Hernández Pérez (Escola de Engenharia de Lorena - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
12:40	Lunch
	Room Aspen + Vail
14:00 – 15:30	Plenary 2: Bioeconomy Challenges & Perspectives
	Towards regional RE(DE)FINERY models for materials, fuels and energy Luuk van der Wielen (BE-Basic, The Netherlands)
	Technology roadmap in bioeconomy: a preliminary approach Luis A. B. Cortez (AGROPOLO, Brazil)
	Arnaldo Jardim (State of São Paulo Secretary of Agriculture, Brazil)
	Jonas Donizette (Mayor of Campinas, Brazil) (tbc)
	Questions & Answers
15:30	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Plenary 3: International Biobased Business Development
	chair: Luuk van der Wielen (BE-Basic, The Netherlands)
16:00 – 16:30	Sustainable biobased value chains: business challenges Patricia Osseweijer (BE-Basic, The Netherlands)
16:30 – 16:40	RenovaBio: the missing economical drive for new low-carbon technology Gonçalo A. G. Pereira (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)
16:40 – 16:50	Commercial and technical partnerships: pivotal to realize a sustainable bioeconomy Jan Wery (Corbion, The Netherlands) (tbc)
16:50 – 17:00	Leadership in a new era of abundant exponential innovation Wilson Nobre Filho (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil)
17:00 – 17:10	Sustainable biobased value chains: business challenges Manfred Kircher (CLIB2021, Germany)
17:10 – 17:30	Questions & Answers
17:30 – 18:30	Finals - Global Biobased Business (G-BiB) Challenge
17:30 – 17:40	Introduction - Patricia Osseweijer (BE-Basic, The Netherlands)
17:40 – 18:10	3 Pitches (8 minutes each)
18:10 – 18:30	Questions from the jury
18:30 – 20:00	Poster Session Drinks sponsored by BE-Basic Announcement G-BiB winner at 19:15 (after jury deliberation)

Thursday	Oct 19th, 2017
	Room Aspen + Vail
9:00 – 10:00	Plenary 4: Thermochemical versus Biochemical Routes
	chair: Antonio Bonomi (CTBE, Brazil)
9:00 – 9:45	Termochemical and biochemical routes Rubens Maciel Filho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil) and Helena Chum (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
9:45 – 10:00	Questions & Answers
10:00	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30	Plenary 5: Metabolic Networks
	chair: Andreas K. Gombert (UNICAMP, Brazil)
10:30 – 11:15	The Centre for Solar Biotechnology: developing next-generation solar powered microalgae systems for the production of high value products, foods and renewable solar fuels Ben Hankamer (University of Queensland, Australia)
11:15 – 11:30	Questions & Answers
11:30 – 12:30	Plenary Symposium 6: The Sugarcane Genome
	chair: Marie-Anne Van Sluys (USP, Brazil)
11:30 – 11:45	Sugarcane genome sequencing and characterization using a systems biology approach Glaucia M. Souza (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
11:45 – 12:00	Genomic analysis of transgressive segregation in autopolyploid sugarcane Ray Ming (University of Illinois, USA)
12:00 – 12:15	Progress in understanding smut disease affecting sugarcane Claudia B. M. Vitorello (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
12:15 – 12:30	Using genomic sequencing to understand the sugarcane genome structure Karen Aitken (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
12:30 – 12:40	Questions & Answers
12:40	Lunch
	Room Aspen	Room Vail	Room Bariloche	Room Courchevel
	PS 9 - Aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty biofuels	PS 10 - Full biomass utilization	PS 11 - Bioen Highlights IV: Biofuel Technologies Division	PS 12 - Land use and pasture intensification
	chair: Heitor Cantarella (IAC, Brazil)	chair: Solange Mussatto (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)	chair: Rubens Maciel Filho (UNICAMP, Brazil)	chair: Bruce Dale (Michigan State University, USA)
14:00 – 14:20	Co-processing of pyrolysis oil in conventional refinery operations to produce biomass-derived gasoline and diesel fuel blendstocks Andrea Pinho (Petrobras, Brazil)	(8081) New proposal for the use of sugarcane filter cake by supercritical technology integrated to a first and second generation biorefinery: thermo-economic evaluation Juliana Q. Albarelli (University of Campinas - School of Food Engineering, Brazil)	Development of techniques to study the phenomenological separation process and pneumatic transport of multiparticulate solids for the improvement of bioenergy production Cristiano Bigonha Tibiriçá (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)	Environmental consequences of pasture-to-sugarcane conversion Luiz A. Martinelli (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
14:20 – 14:40	(8185) Mitigating the cold flow problems of biodiesel by ethyl esters blends Guilherme José Maximo (University of Campinas - Food Engineering Department, Brazil)	(8197) Evolution of customized yeasts for ethanol production Marcel Salmeron Lorenzi (Fermentec - Tecnologias em Açúcar e Álcool Ltda, Brazil)	(8040) Systems biology applied to the secretion of enzymes by filamentous fungi André Ricardo de Lima Damasio (Instituto de Biologia - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)	Assessing attainable intensification of global livestock pasture systems John Sheehan (Colorado State University, USA)
14:40 – 15:00	(8291) Ethanol conversion to gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel blend stocks and higher value chemicals (BTX) John Hannon (Vertimass LLC, USA)	(8286) Hydraulic and organic rates applied to pilot scale UASB reactors for sugar cane vinasse degradation and biogas generation Valéria Del Nery (Universidade de São Paulo - Departamento de Hidráulica e Saneamento, Brazil)	*(8173) Can the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus* grow under fully anaerobic conditions?** Andreas K. Gombert (University of Campinas - School of Food Engineering, Brazil)	(8062) Effects of straw removal rates on sugarcane yields, soil carbon stock and its quality in south-central Brazil Ricardo de Oliveira Bordonal (Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory - Agricultural Division, Brazil)
15:00 – 15:20	(8012) Scale-up of microbial oil production by oleaginous filamentous fungi for advanced biofuels Zhanying Zhang (Queensland University of Technology - Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Australia)	(8161) Making the ABE fermentation economically viable: adaptive evolution and optimized fermentation process using cellulosic pulp Maria Carolina de Barros Grassi (Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil)	(8234) Comparative analysis of two endoglucanases from GH45 family with potential biotechnological application Fernando Segato (Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Brazil)	(8125) Do land use and agricultural development drive food security? National-level data suggest not. Andrew Michael Allee (Dartmouth College - Thayer School of Engineering, USA)
15:20 – 15:40	(8353) Aeronautical Brazilian prodiesel: synergistic analysis of energy, environmental and socio-economic aspects and the perspective of use in the current days André Felipe Simões (Universidade de São Paulo - EACH, Brazil)	(8093) Fuel and green cement from sugarcane straw Estela Assureira (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru)	(8106) Correlations between the concentrations of biomass inhibitors and effects on cells mass, ethanol and their productivities Cecilia Laluce (São Paulo State University - Department of Biochemistry and Technological Chemistry, Brazil)	(8256) Development pathways for biofuels initiatives: lessons from developing countries Manoel Regis L. V. Leal (Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Planejamento Energético - LACAf, Brazil)
16:00 – 17:00	Closing session & BBEST Awards
17:00	Wine & Cheese