Marcos Buckeridge is Associate Professor at the Department of Botany of the University of São Paulo and Director of the National Institute of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (INCT do Bioetanol), that gathers 32 laboratories in 6 states of Brazil with several collaborations in the US and Europe. Buckeridge published more than 150 papers and chapters and 3 books. From 2009 to 2012 he was Scientific Director of the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE), in Campinas. He is Reviews Editor for the International Journal Trees: Structure and Function (Springer) and Communicating Editor for Bioenergy Research (Springer). In 2010, Buckeridge was appointed a Lead Authors for the next Intergovernmental Panel of Climatic Changes (IPCC) report (AR5) to be released in 2014. He is the actual President of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.Amanda P. De Souza is PhD in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. De Souza has 12 years of experience working with physiological responses of crops to Global Climate Changes in Brazil and USA. In her young career, she published about 30 papers and chapters. From 2008 to 2015, she was the Scientific Manager of the National Institute of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (INCT do Bioetanol), assisting the research coordination in more than 30 laboratories across Brazil. During this period she was also involved in projects between Brazil and Europe related to cell wall composition in bioenergy crops.

• From sugarcane genomics research to modern biotech industrial innovation in Brazil.- Advances in polyploid genetics.- The sugarcane genome.- Sugarcane cell walls.- Biophysics of sugarcane biomass.- Sugarcane under stress.- Source-sink relationship of sugarcane.- Systems biology of sugarcane.- Proteomics for sugarcane bioenergy.- Epigenetics and sugarcane.- Advances in pretreatment methods.- Advances in fermentation.- Discovery and characterization of new enzymes and new enzymatic mechanisms of hydrolysis.- Engineering enzymes for cell wall hydrolysis.- Assembly of enzyme cocktails for 2nd generation.- Sugarcane engineering for bioenergy.- Evaluating the life cycle of greenhouse gases and the impact on sustainability of sugarcane in Brazil.- Adapting sugarcane to the Global Climate Changes.- International interactions and technological development in bioethanol technology: the case of Brazil-EU relations.- Brazil-US relations and the development of science and technologies for bioethanol.- The Science-Policy paradox.