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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Marcos Buckeridge was a Scientific Researcher at the Botany Institute of the São Paulo State Environmental Secretariat for 20 years. In 2006, he moved to the University of São Paulo (USP), where he is now a Full Professor at the Institute of Biosciences. He served as President of the Association of Students and Researchers in Great Britain (1993 and 1994) and as President of the Botanical Society of São Paulo for two terms (2001 to 2005). Between 2015 and 2019, Buckeridge was President of the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences. In October 2018, he was elected Director of the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo. He is a member of USP's Institute for Advanced Studies, where he created and coordinated the USP-Global Cities Program.His research focuses primarily on climate change, bioenergy, and public policy. He was a founding member of the FAPESP BIOEN Program and served as Scientific Director of the National Laboratory of Renewable Energy in Campinas (CNPEM) from 2009 to 2012. Since 2008, Buckeridge has been the Director of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Bioethanol (INCT for Bioethanol). His group uncovered the chemical structure of the cell wall in sugarcane and miscanthus, two of the most important grasses used for bioenergy. His work on plant cell walls led him to propose the Glycomic Code Theory. His research has emphasized the investigation of native plants from various Brazilian biomes (Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Caatinga), cultivated plants (sugarcane, corn, soybeans, beans, oranges, and others), and urban environments.He revealed physiological mechanisms and metabolic pathways related to carbohydrate signaling in plant development. His current research focuses on systems biology, particularly applying network theory to understand the overall functioning of plants. He conducted pioneering studies on how Brazilian plants respond to increasing atmospheric CO#8322; and, more recently, to combinations of CO#8322;, water stress, and temperature, elucidating fundamental mechanisms of plant responses to climate change.Buckeridge also conducts research related to Applied Urban Sciences, focusing on developing public policies grounded in scientific knowledge for urban environments. In 2010, he was selected as a lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), published in 2014 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2017, he became the only Brazil-based scientist to contribute as an author to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C, published in December 2018. For four consecutive years, he has been listed among the worlds 20,000 most productive researchers and the 1,000 most productive researchers in Brazil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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During the second phase of the INCT-bioethanol we intend to integrate the knowledge obtained during the last 6 years to assemble enzyme consortia that will hydrolyze the cell walls of sugarcane quickly and efficiently. The main focus will be to design enzyme consortiums that can be used to hydrolyze diverse sugarcane biomasses as well as genetically and chemically transformed varieties. T…
Project SummaryThe project aims to investigate the degradation of sugarcane bagasse and arabinoxylan polymer during the digestive process of the cockroach species Periplaneta americana, as well as by the bacterial consortium originating from the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea (NaLC). The first part of the project will explore the effect of different diets on enzymatic activity, gene/protein …
The allocation of funds for repairing and maintenance of equipment and the renovation of laboratories is a constant need of the Institute of Biosciences, as it enables researchers to improve the research infrastructure. The acquisition of permanent materials will meet the specific needs of some of the unit's multi-user laboratories. (AU)
The allocation of funds for repairing and maintenance of equipment and the renovation of laboratories is a constant need of the Institute of Biosciences, as it enables researchers to improve the research infrastructure. The acquisition of permanent materials will meet the specific needs of some of the unit's multi-user laboratories. (AU)
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Global climate change, primarily driven by increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, has caused serious impacts on terrestrial ecosystems and agriculture. Among the mitigation strategies, bioenergy, particularly bioethanol production from sugarcane, emerges as a viable alternative. Brazil leads the world in sugarcane ethanol production, a crop adapted to adverse conditions and with high …
Climate change (CC), resulting from the high emission of CO2 in the atmosphere, already increases extreme events with high temperatures and prolonged periods of drought and rain, affecting agricultural species; development, and productivity. Soybean is vital in the Brazilian agricultural economy, with Brazil being its largest producer. In 2021, 135 million tons were produced. However, mos…
Plant cell walls are an important renewable raw material for the sustainable generation of fuels, materials and chemicals. The recalcitrance of the complex network of polysaccharides and lignin that make up the lignocellulosic component of plant cell walls makes it difficult to deconstruct the biomass by hydrolytic enzymes. Detailed knowledge of cell wall architecture can provide a ration…
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Sugarcane bagasse is a promising raw material for the production of second-generation ethanol, but its use presents challenges, from the high costs of pre-treatment and hydrolysis, associated with cell wall recalcitrance, which limits the saccharification yield. Although pectins have been largely neglected as important components of the cell wall, due to their low content (~8%) in sugarca…
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Lignocellulose derived from Sugarcane plant cell walls is an important renewable resource for the Brazilian bioeconomy, especially for second generation ethanol production. Biomass degrading enzymes have attracted attention as biocatalysts for the conversion of lignocellulosic material to fermentable sugars, however, the chemical recalcitrance of the plant cell wall imposes a barrier to e…
A significant knowledge gap in bioenergy science is how products of polysaccharide biosynthesis are integrated into composites and how their structural complexities contribute to macro and micro-scale architectures. Solving such problems can be helpful to a) improve hydrolysis procedures that could be more precise and effective in producing free sugars and b) design polymers tailored for …
Mechanisms incurring in degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides are quite frequent, given that it is an important barrier to the entry of pathogens and is it also an obstacle to the physical expansion, cell division and differentiation of a tissue. In many physiological events the cell wall has to be modified to enable structural changes typical of each event. The study of these pr…
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