Ben Hankamer (Solar Biofuel Consortium, University of Brisbane, Australia)
The economics, technical challenges and advances of microalgal biofuel production
10:00
Nitin Baliga (Institute for Systems Biology, USA)
Multiscale models for redirecting evolution
10:30
Rubens Maciel (Escola de Engenharia, UNICAMP)
A Computer Tool Based on Synthetic Biology Approach to Design Microorganisms and Bio-based Processes
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Andreas Gombert (Escola Politécnica, USP)
Improvement of yeast strains for bioethanol production using a combination of metabolic and evolutionary engineering
12:00
Lunch
13:30
Harald Ruijssenaars (BIRD Engineering)
Synthetic pathways for aromatics production from biobased feedstock
13:55
Todd Peterson (Life Technologies, USA)
Genetic Synthesis and Assembly Tools for Synthetic Biology
14:20
Nathan Hillson (JBEI, Joint Bioenergy Institute, USA)
johnny5: scar-less multi-part DNA assembly design automation
14:45
Ton van Maris (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for efficient alcoholic fermentation of plant biomass hydrolysates.
15:10
Emile Van Zyl (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Cellulosic ethanol: From revolutionary consolidated bioprocessing idea to proof of concept
15:35
Coffee break
16:00
Stevens Brumbley (University of Queensland, Australia)
PHA accumulation in sugarcane plastids and peroxisome
16:25
Lars Nielsen (University of Queensland, Australia)
Genome-Scale Reconstruction of the Primary Metabolic Network in Plants
16:50
José Gregório Gomez (Escola de Engenharia, UNICAMP)
Metabolic fluxes analysis and development of bacterial processes for bio-based products
17:15
Patricia Osseweijer (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Ethical and social issues in Synthetic Biology
