UC Berkeley – Tel Aviv University Workshop on Bioeconomy
Moving from petrol based materiel
Dates: April 27 and 28, 2015
Location: Beit Hatfuzot, Tel Aviv University
Registration: Free, please click here.
A downloadable program can be found here.
Monday, April 27
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Time |
Activity/Speaker |
Title |
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8:45 – 9:15 |
Get together |
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9:15 – 9:30 |
Greetings |
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9:30 – 10:15 |
Plenary lecture Chris Somerville - UCB |
Development of Advanced Biofuels |
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10:20 – 10:50 |
Nadav Sorek - UCB |
Understanding cell wall biosynthesis for better biomass utilization |
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10:55 – 11:25 |
Coffee break |
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11:25 – 11:55 |
Henrik Scheller - UCB |
Engineering plants for improved biofuels production |
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12:00 – 12:20 |
Avraham Kribus - TAU |
Cogeneration of hydrogen and power from wet biomass by super-critical water gasification (SCWG) |
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12:25 – 12:45 |
Shaul Yalovsky - TAU |
Regulation of secondary wall formation and biomass production |
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12:50 – 14:15 |
Lunch break |
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14:15 – 14:25 |
Efrat Oron – PM Office |
Funding opportunities by the government |
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14:30 – 15:15 |
Plenary lecture David Zilberman - UCB |
The political economy of biofuel and GMOs |
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15:20 – 15:40 |
Ram Fishman - TAU |
Can smallholder agriculture in developing countries be made resource (water and fertilizer) efficient? |
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15:45 – 16:15 |
Coffee break |
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16:15 – 16:35 |
Amram Eshel - TAU |
Towards harnessing Tamarix (salt cedar) biodiversity for generating desert forests as sources for renewable energy |
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16:40 – 17:00 |
Alex Golberg - TAU |
Energy efficient seaweed based biorefineries for all inclusive bioeconomy |
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17:05 – 17:35 |
William Stewart - UCB |
Complements or competitors?: Harvesting bioenergy feedstocks and green building materials from North American forests |
Tuesday, April 28
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Time |
Activity/Speaker |
Title |
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9:00 – 9:30 |
Get together |
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9:30 – 10:15 |
Plenary lecture Nathan Nelson - TAU |
Temperature-sensitive PSII and promiscuous PSI as a possible solution for sustainable photosynthetic hydrogen production |
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10:20 – 10:40 |
Brian Rosen - TAU |
Intelligent Design of Catalyst Materials for Methane Reforming into Liquid Fuel |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Coffee break |
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11:15 – 11:35 |
Iftach Yacoby - TAU |
Algal hydrogen production |
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11:40 – 12:10 |
Sheng Luan - UCB |
Regulation of mineral nutrition: a critical factor for biomass production in plants |
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12:15 – 12:35 |
Assaf Distelfeld - TAU |
Towards wild emmer wheat (T. turgidum ssp dicoccoides) genome sequence |
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12:40 – 13:10 |
Daniel Zilberman - UCB |
The evolution of genomic imprinting in rice |
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13:15 – 14:30 |
Lunch break |
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14:30 – 17:00 |
Round table and individual discussions |
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