Program - Workshop on Interdisciplinary Plant Science
December 16th - 2013
9:00
Welcome coffee and registration
9:30
Opening ceremony
10:00
Biological Control in Brazil: an overview
José Roberto P. Parra – Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiróz –ESALQ/Universidade de São Paulo – USP
10:20
Field physiology and agronomy to optimize crop yields
Felix B. Fritschi - Interdisciplinary Plant Group of University of Missouri (IPG/UM), USA
10:40
A systems-approach to understand the regulation of plant growth and biomass production in bioenergy crops
Camila Caldana – CTBE Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol
11:00
Defending plants against Insects
Deborah L. Finke – IPG/UM, USA
11:20
How the analytical chemistry can help the plant science: from “omics” to imaging
Marco Aurélio Zezzi Arruda – Instituto de Química – IQ/Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP – São Paulo
11:40
Soybean Symbioses With Microbes - Metals, Signaling Molecules, and Important Proteins
Joseph C. Polacco – IPG/UM, USA
Questions and commentaries
12:00
Lunch (restaurants around FAPESP)
14:00
A systems biology approach to understanding the energetic balance in sugarcane
Renato Vicentini – Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética – CBMEG/Unicamp –
São Paulo
14:20
Plant genetics and genomics
David M. Braun
14:40
Genetics and molecular studies of sugarcane and Sporisorium scitamineum interaction
Cláudia Vitorello – ESALQ/USP
15:00
Plants interacting with pathogens
Walter Gassmann
15:20
Functional genomics approaches in Xanthomonas citri/citrus pathosystem
Jesus Aparecido Ferro – Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP – Jaboticabal – São Paulo
15:40
Roots under drought - model systems to the field
Robert E. Sharp –IPG/UM, USA