Bioeconomy will be addressed at the new strategic workshop of the USP's Dean of Research
Aspects of biotechnology in health, energy and environmental sustainability, and the need for innovation, entrepreneurship and regulation in this field will be discussed at the meeting Bioeconomy, from the series Strategic Workshops of the USP's Dean of Research (PRP). The event will take place on October 19, from 9 am, in the István Jancsó Auditorium of the Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin Library.
There will be four sessions with presentations by experts and a debate with the audience. Researchers from USP, UNICAMP and from the private sector will attend. The organizers are two professors from USP: Marie-Anne Van Suys, from the USP's Institute of Biosciences (IB) and Hamilton Varela, a professor at the USP's Institute of Chemistry of the São Carlos campus, advisor to the PRP and president of the IEA's research committee.
The event will be broadcast live over the web.
Programme
09.15 am | Opening Session |
09.30 am | Session 1 – Red Biotechnology (Health and Precision Medicine) Exhibitors: Luis Carlos Ferreira (USP's Institute of Biological Sciences - ICB), Paulo Arruda (GSK-FAPESP-UNICAMP), Glaucius Oliva (USP's Institute of Physics of the São Carlos campus - IFSC) and José Eduardo Krieger (USP's School of Medicine - FM) |
11.00 am | Session 2 – Tools for Biotechnology (Nanomaterials and SynBio) Exhibitors: Luiz Henrique Catalani (USP's Institute of Chemistry - IQ), Igor Polikarpov (IFSC), Edgar Andres Ochoa-Cruz (Arcturus BioCloud) and Paula Lins (iGEM) |
12.15 pm | Break |
02.00 pm | Session 3 – Green Biotechnology (Energy and Environment) Exhibitors: Marcos Buckeridge (USP's Institute of Biosciences), Luciano Verdade (Scope), Gonçalo Pereira (Granbio) and Carlos Clemente Cerri (USP's Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture) |
03.30 pm | Break |
03.40 pm | Session 4 – Innovation and Regulation Exhibitors: Eduardo Giacomazzi (Industry Federation of the State of São Paulo - FIESP), Renata Marchetti (Fearp-USP) and Décio Zylberstajn (USP's Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting - FEA) |