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 Marcos Buckeridge is plant biologist who has spent 20 years working at the Botanical Institute of São Paulo with native Neotropical species.  During his masters and PhD he worked with seed storage cell wall polysaccharides in plants and in 1995 established a line of research focused on the comprehension of the physiological and cellular mechanisms involved in seedling establishment in tropical biomes as well as the development of biotechnological tools to help the sustainable use of biodiversity. More than 80 publications were produced following these lines of research. With the increasing importance of the impact of  Global Climatic Changes in the world, Dr. Buckeridge pioneered studies that try to understand how the rain forest, including Atlantic and Amazonian species are responding to the increasing carbon dioxide concentration and elevation of temperature in the atmosphere. His research group added another focus that is to understand how the sugar cane plant will respond to the climatic changes. This is important because sugarcane is now one of the most important crops in Brazil, being responsible for the production of ethanol as a fuel. In 2006, Dr. Buckeridge moved to the University of São Paulo, where he continues to work on the same lines of research.  He shares his position at the University with the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, in Campinas, where he acts as the Scientific Director.  He also coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology of Bioethanol (INCT do Bioetanol), a virtual institute that gathers 30 laboratories in 6 states of Brazil and keeps several collaborations abroad. Buckeridge has been president of the Botanical Society of São Paulo from 2001 to 2005 and worked as consultant for the Intergovernmental Panel of Global Change (IPCC) indicated by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil. In 2010, he was appointed as one of the Lead Authors of WGII for the next IPCC report (AR5) to be released in 2014. He helped to create the BIOEN Program at FAPESP and is one of its coordinators. Presently, Dr. Buckeridge is a communicating editor for Trees:structure and function (Springer), Australian Journal of Botany (SCIRO), Bioenergy Research (Springer), Global Change Biology Bioenergy (Wiley).

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