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Tuesday, May 12
 

08:30 GMT-03

Welcome Coffee
Tuesday May 12, 2015 08:30 - 09:00 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
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09:00 GMT-03

OPENING SESSION – WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
Celso Lafer – FAPESP President
Harris Lewin – Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Davis: "Research at UC Davis"
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz – FAPESP Scientific Director


Speakers
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Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Scientific Director, FAPESP
An electronic engineer and a physicist, he is a professor at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he was the rector from 2002 to 2005. He graduated in electronic engineering at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA in... Read More →
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Celso Lafer

President, FAPESP
Celso Lafer (São Paulo, 1941) has been president of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) since August 2007. A Professor Emeritus of the International Relations Institute at the University of São Paulo (USP) he was, before retiring in 2011, full professor in the Department... Read More →
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Harris Lewin

Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Davis - Office of Research
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILHarris Lewin is Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor of Evolution and Ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis. Prior to his appointment at UC Davis, Lewin spent 27 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 09:00 - 10:30 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
  Opening/Closing

09:30 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: NEUROSCIENCES
09:30 Cam Carter: "Integrated Neuroscience as a Foundation for Translational Research: A Novel Approach for Understanding Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders"
09:50 Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan: "Prevention in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder – from Neuroscience to Community"   
10:10 Q+A session

Session chair: Eduardo Moacyr Krieger (FAPESP and University of São Paulo)
Speakers
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Rodrigo Affonseca Bressan

Professor, Head of Laboratory, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Interdisciplinary Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILPsychiatrist with a masters in epidemiology of schizophrenia at UNIFESP. PhD in psychopharmacology and molecular imaging at King's College London. Back in Brazil, leads a clinical-research group focused on the prevention of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (PRISMA), and a cutti... Read More →
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Cam Carter

Director, UC Davis - Imaging Research Center
Cameron CarterDirector, Imaging Research CenterDirector, Center for NeuroscienceProfessor of Psychiatry and PsychologyThe work in our laboratory focuses on neural mechanisms of attention and memory, and on the pathophysiological processes underlying clinical disorders that involve... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 09:30 - 10:30 GMT-03
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10:30 GMT-03

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Tuesday May 12, 2015 10:30 - 10:50 GMT-03
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10:50 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: CANCER RESEARCH
10:50 Julie Sutcliffe: "Molecular Imaging at UCD, bench to bedside"
11:10 Dirce Maria Carraro: "Genomics as a tool for discovering genes causally implicated in cancer development and progression"
11:30 Laura Marcu: "Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Intraoperative Guidance of Surgery"
11:50 Roger Chammas: "The tumor microenvironment as a target for experimental combination therapy in tumors"
12:10 Q+A session
 
Session Chair: Anamaria A. Camargo (Hospital Sirio Libanês) 
Speakers
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Dirce Maria Carraro

Scientist, Principal Investigator, A C Camargo Cancer Center - International Research Center - CIPE
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDirce Maria Carraro, PhD, is currently Principal Investigator of Genomics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, at CIPE/AC Camargo Cancer Center (ACCCC). Carraro got her PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of São Paulo, Brazil, working two years at the Univer... Read More →
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Roger Chammas

Professor, University of São Paulo (USP), School of Medicine and Cancer Institute of São Paulo (ICESP)
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILRoger Chammas, MD-PhD, is currently Professor of Oncology at Universidade de São Paulo. Chammas completed his studies in Medicine at Universidade de São Paulo in 1988, and got his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the same university, working at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Researc... Read More →
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Laura Marcu

Professor, UC Davis -Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurological Surgery
Personal Education Diploma of Engineer in Mechanical Engineering, 1984, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, RomaniaPost-graduate specialization in Spectroscopy, Lasers, and Plasma Physics, 1989, University of Bucharest, RomaniaM.S. in Biomedical Engineering, 1995, University of Southern... Read More →
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Julie Sutcliffe

Professor, UC Davis - Biomedical Engineering
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and OncologyDepartment of Biomedical EngineeringDr. Sutcliffe’s research involves the design, synthesis and in vivo evaluation of targeted molecular imaging agents with a focus on positron emission tomography (PET). Her group has devel... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 10:50 - 12:40 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
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12:40 GMT-03

Lunchtime
Tuesday May 12, 2015 12:40 - 13:50 GMT-03
Around Espaço APAS
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13:50 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: PARTICLES & MATTER
1:50 Robert Svoboda: "The Neutrino Physics and Dark Matter Research Program"
2:10 Ernesto Kemp: “Experimental Neutrino Physics in Brazil”
2:30 Qing-zhu Yin: "Advancing Frontiers in Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis"
2:50 Ricardo Trindade "The Precambrian Earth: continents, oceans, atmosphere and life evolution"
3:10 Q+A session
 
Session Chair: Mani Tripathi (UC Davis, Department of Physics)
Speakers
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Ernesto Kemp

Associate Professor, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Cosmic Rays and Chronolgy
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILErnesto Kemp began his research in 1992 on supernovae neutrinos, on the LVD experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory - Italy. In 2000 he joined the Pierre Auger Observatory collaboration, extending his research to Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays. Currently is working with n... Read More →
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Robert Svoboda

Professor, UC Davis - Department of Physics
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILRobert Svoboda joined the Department of Physics in 2006, bringing to the department an active research program in experimental neutrino physics and dark matter. Currently, the group is building two experiments - the Double Chooz neutrino oscillation experiment and the Large Undergro... Read More →
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Ricardo Trindade

Professor, University of São Paulo (USP), Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILTalk abstract: The Precambrian Earth: continents, oceans, atmosphere and life evolutionThe Precambrian encompasses the first four billion years of Earth's history and witnessed dramatic modifications in almost all of its envelopes, from the stratification of the core and the origin of... Read More →
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Qing-zhu Yin

Professor, UC Davis - Earth and Planetary Sciences
Using extinct radioactivity and general isotopic anomalies in the early solar system recorded in primitive meteorites as a tool to study the time scales and site of nucleosynthesis, the time of formation of the solar system and planetary differentiation. Isotope and trace element... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 13:50 - 15:40 GMT-03
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15:40 GMT-03

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Tuesday May 12, 2015 15:40 - 16:00 GMT-03
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16:00 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: MATERIALS SCIENCE & CHEMISTRY
4:00 Munir Salomao Skaf: "Molecular modeling of cellulases and plant cell walls"
4:20 Alexandra Navrotsky: "Collaborations with Brazil in Materials Science"
4:40 Edgar Dutra Zanotto: "Open challenges in structure, dynamics, crystallization, and properties of glasses"
5:00 Q+A session 

Session chair: José Arana Varela (State University of São Paulo)
Speakers
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Alexandra Navrotsky

Interim Dean, UC Davis - Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILAlexandra Navrotsky was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and the University of Chicago (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physical chemistry). After postdoctoral work in Germany and at Penn State University, she joined the facul... Read More →
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Munir Salomao Skaf

Professor, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Intitute of Chemistry
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILMunir Skaf’s research focuses in the study of molecular mechanisms underlying structural and dynamical features of biomolecules using classical and quantum Molecular Dynamics simulations. In the last ten years, the Skaf group has studied nuclear hormone receptors and other proteins... Read More →
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Edgar Dutra Zanotto

Professor, Director, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) and Center for Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILEdgar Dutra Zanotto (EDZ) has been a professor of materials science and engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil for 39 years. Currently he is the director of the Center for Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV), and Editor of the... Read More →

Tuesday May 12, 2015 16:00 - 17:30 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
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17:30 GMT-03

Closing Session Day 1- Research Opportunities FAPESP & USA
Tuesday May 12, 2015 17:30 - 17:45 GMT-03
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  Opening/Closing
 
Wednesday, May 13
 

08:30 GMT-03

Welcome Coffee
Wednesday May 13, 2015 08:30 - 09:00 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
  Break

09:00 GMT-03

OPENING SESSION
Speakers
avatar for Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Scientific Director, FAPESP
An electronic engineer and a physicist, he is a professor at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he was the rector from 2002 to 2005. He graduated in electronic engineering at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA in... Read More →

Wednesday May 13, 2015 09:00 - 09:10 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
  Opening/Closing

09:25 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: FOOD & AGRICULTURE I
9:10 Josette Lewis: "Innovating to address grand challenges across our food system"
9:30 Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco: "Food safety issues in international trade" 
9:50 Bennie Osburn: "One Health for Food Safety"
10:10 Luiz Antonio Martinelli: “Is it possible to conciliate agriculture and environmental preservation in Brazil?“
10:30 Q+A session

Session Chair: Rosane Oliveira (UC Davis, Director Integrative Medicine) 
Speakers
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Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco

Professor, Director, University of São Paulo (USP) and Food Research Center (FoRC)
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILProf. Bernadette Franco is Full Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil, and director of the Food Research Center, one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers, supported by FAPESP. Her research interests... Read More →
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Josette Lewis

Associate Director, UC Davis - World Food Center
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILA Davis native and alum of UC Davis, Josette Lewis came to the World Food Center after a distinguished career advancing agricultural innovation in both the private and public sectors. Josette spent 16 years at the U.S. Agency for International Development working in international... Read More →
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Luiz Antonio Martinelli

Professor, University of São Paulo (USP), Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA)
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDr. Luiz Martinelli research into the ecology and geochemistry of the Amazon Basin has earned him recognition as one of Brazil's leading scientists in his field. In addition to publishing numerous papers in scientific journals, Dr. Martinelli has worked with both the International Geosph... Read More →
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Bennie Osburn

Director, Outreach and Training, UC Davis - Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDr. Osburn’s research has focused on infectious diseases of livestock, zoonotic diseases, including foodborne pathogens, and the ecology of infectious agents.  In order to facilitate a better understanding of the complex interactions of humans, animals and the environment, mult... Read More →

Wednesday May 13, 2015 09:25 - 11:25 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
  Session

11:00 GMT-03

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Wednesday May 13, 2015 11:00 - 11:20 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
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11:20 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE II
11:20 Jan Hopmans: "The soil-water-food-climate nexus in California"
11:40 Patricia Fernanda do Pinho: "Complex Socio- Ecological Dynamics driven by extreme events in the Amazon"
12:00 Adriana Zerlotti Mercadante: "Bioactive compounds and antioxidant capacity from Brazilian fruits: challenges and trends"
12:20 Daniela Barile: "Integrating Biology and New 'Omics to guide Diet, Health and Agriculture"
12:40 Q+A session 

Session chair: Bernadette Franco (University of São Paulo and Food Research Center) 
 
Speakers
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Daniela Barile

Associate Professor and Principal Investigator, UC Davis - Food Science & Technology and Foods For Health Institute
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDaniela Barile is Associate Professor and Principal Investigator. Her first priority since starting this research group in 2011, was to set up an advanced analytical lab to develop a detailed understanding of glycan bioactivities through analytics, food processing and functional stud... Read More →
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Jan Hopmans

Associate Vice Provost, Global Affairs, UC Davis
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILAssociate Vice Provost, Global AffairsProfessor of Vadose Zone Hydrology, Land, Air, & Water Resources, UC Davis Degrees:B.S. Land and Water Use - Wageningen Agricultural University M.S. Hydrology/Hydraulics - Wageningen Agricultural University Ph.D. Soil Physics - Auburn Unive... Read More →
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Adriana Zerlotti Mercadante

Full Professor, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Faculty of Food Engineering
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILAdriana Z. Mercadante is Full Professor at the Faculty of Food Engineering at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil. She is Principal Investigator of the Food Research Center, supported by FAPESP and her main research interests are related to bioactive compounds from frui... Read More →
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Patricia Fernanda do Pinho

Professor, University of São Paulo (USP), Interdisciplinary Center for Climate Change Research
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILPatricia Pinho is a Visiting Professor at INCLINE (Interdisciplinary Center for Climate Change Research) at IAG, University of São Paulo. She has served as scientific coordinator of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Regional Office in Brazil, and has been leading... Read More →

Wednesday May 13, 2015 11:20 - 13:10 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
  Session

13:10 GMT-03

Lunchtime
Wednesday May 13, 2015 13:10 - 14:20 GMT-03
Around Espaço APAS
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14:20 GMT-03

SCIENTIFIC SESSION: WATER & ENERGY
2:20 Ruihong Zhang: "Bioenergy Research and Innovation from Laboratory to Commercial Scale"
2:40 Andreas Karoly Gombert: "Yeast physiology and metabolic engineering for the improvement of biorefineries"
3:00 Graham Fogg: "Climate Change, Drought and Groundwater Sustainability: A New Era of Water Resources Management"
3:20 Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi: "Flexibilizing the Brazilian Power system: Moving beyond large hydro plants with new technologies and energy efficiency and the role of the consumer"
3:40 Q+A session 

Session chair: Jan Hopmans (Associate Vice Provost, Global Affairs, UC Davis)
Speakers
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Graham Fogg

Director, U C Davis - IGERT Center for Climate Change, Water, & Society
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILGraham Fogg is Professor of Hydrogeology in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources.His research interests include groundwater contaminant transport; groundwater basin characterization and management; geologic/geostatistical characterization of subsurface heterogeneity for... Read More →
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Andreas Karoly Gombert

Associate Professor, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Bioprocess & Metabolic Engineering Laboratory
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILAndreas K. Gombert's main research interest is on yeast physiology and metabolic engineering. He is involved with academic research and teaching (at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He currently holds a position as Associate... Read More →
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Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi

Full Professor, University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILGilberto M Jannuzzi is Full Professor in Energy Systems at the University of Campinas. His current research and teaching are focused energy technology / policy interface and he has particular interests in long-term, low-carbon energy technology transitions and the innovation and other policies... Read More →
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Ruihong Zhang

Professor, UC Davis - Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILDr. Ruihong Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at University of California, Davis (UC Davis). Dr. Zhang has more than 25 years of research and teaching experiences with bioenergy and biofuel production, waste treatment and environmental qua... Read More →

Wednesday May 13, 2015 14:20 - 16:10 GMT-03
Espaço APAS
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16:10 GMT-03

CLOSING SESSION – COLLABORATIONS & OPPORTUNITIES
Speakers
avatar for Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Scientific Director, FAPESP
An electronic engineer and a physicist, he is a professor at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he was the rector from 2002 to 2005. He graduated in electronic engineering at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA in... Read More →
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Harris Lewin

Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Davis - Office of Research
Presentation at FAPESP WEEK UC DAVIS IN BRAZILHarris Lewin is Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor of Evolution and Ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis. Prior to his appointment at UC Davis, Lewin spent 27 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, where... Read More →

Wednesday May 13, 2015 16:10 - 16:40 GMT-03
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