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Day 1: Monday 27 February 2017
Morning Session
Opening Ceremony, Keynote and Plenary Lectures
09.00 – 09.20 Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn arrives to the event and graciously preside over the opening ceremony and listen to the Keynote speaker 1
09.20 – 10.00 Keynote speaker 1
Linkage between sustainable agricultural technologies and the bioeconomy
By       Dr. John Manners 
           Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
10.00 – 12.00 Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn visits the exhibition of AGBIO2017
(in parallel with the lectures from plenary speaker)
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00 Plenary speaker 1
Integrated agricultural production systems for a sustainable bioeconomy
By       Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr
           Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
11.00 – 11.30    Plenary speaker 2
Proximal and remote sensing for precision agriculture
By       Dr. Victor Alchanatis 
           Institute of Agricultural Engineering - the Volcani Center, Israel
11.30 – 12.30 Lunch
12.30 – 13.30 Poster presentation and exhibition
Afternoon Session (Parallel Sessions)
Session AG7: Starch Update2017 conference & target-oriented research on Thai cassava by TRON
13.30 – 14.00 Invited speaker Starch & Cassava 1: Starch in breadmaking: from wheat to wheat flour over dough to fresh and stored bread 
By       Prof. Jan Delcour
           University of Leuven, Belgium
14.00 – 14.30

Invited speaker Starch & Cassava 2: Imortance of locational digestion of starch and new strategies to obtain SDS
By       Prof. Bruce R. Hamaker
           Purdue University, USA

14.30 – 14.50

Oral Presentation 1
Understanding starch swelling behavior and its impact on food texture
By       Dr. Rachel Wicklund 
           
Tate & Lyle, Singapore

14.50 – 15.10

Oral Presentation 2
Starch pastes and gels stabilization
By       Prof. Marek Sikora 
           University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland

15.10 – 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 – 16.00

Oral presentation 3
Pasting and gel-textural properties of cassava-rice starch blends
By       Mr. Huy Thanh To
           
Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

16.00 – 16.20 Oral presentation 4
Retrogardation process of waxy-starches gels without and with gum Arabic investigated by using 1H NMR method
By       Assist. Prof. Dr. Hanna Maria Baranowska
          
Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
16.20 – 16.40 Oral presentation 5
Texture studies of konjac jelly in Japan
By       Assist. Prof. Piyada Achayuthakan
          
Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand
16.40– 17.00 Oral presentation 6
Physico-chemical properties of riceberry grain during germination and its different localization pattern of amino acids
By       Mr. Boonyote Kamjijam
           
Kasetsart University, Thailand
17.00 – 17.20 Oral presentation 7
Starch digestibility index of wheat cookies with an addition of the selected intensively sweetening compounds
By       Dr. Babara Borczak
          
University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
17.20 – 17.40 Oral presentation 8
Synbiotic property of the slow digestible colored rice flour as encapsulation wall material: a study on in-vitro gut microbiota using fluorescence in situ hybridization
By       Ms. Isara Wattananapakasem
          
Kasetsart University, Thailand
17.40 – 18.00 Oral presentation 9
Current plasma development and technology for starch and rice in Thailand
By       Assist. Prof. Somsak Dangtip
 
          Mahidol University, Thailand
18.00 onwards Welcome reception
Day 2: Tuesday 28 February 2017
Morning Session
Keynote and Plenary Lectures
09.00 – 09.40 Keynote speaker 2
Insights into breeding climate resilient crops
By       Prof. Dr. Richard Visser 
           Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
09.40 – 10.10 Plenary speaker 7
Using the tolls of population genetics to assess pollinator densities at landscape scales
By       Prof. Dr. Benjamin P. Oldroyd
           University of Sydney, Australia
10.10 – 10.40 Plenary speaker 8
The update of bioeconomy roadmap Public - Private Partnership
By       Mr. Anon Sirisaengtaksin
           PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited, Thailand
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 Plenary speaker 9
Unlocking the full potentials of the biomass -new technologies for cascading use of both biomass (terrestic and marine) and industrial side streams
By       Prof. Lene Lange
           Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
11.30 – 12.00 Plenary speaker 10
BioBanks: Coupling material and data
By       Dr. Philippe Desmeth 
           World Federation for Culture Collections, Belgium
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 13.30 Poster presentation and exhibition
Afternoon Session (Parallel Sessions)
Session AG11: Starch Update2017 conference & target-oriented research on
Thai cassava by TRON: Day 2
13.30 – 14.00 Invited speaker Starch & Cassava 3:
Starch bioengineering for high-value, nutrition, food and bioplastics
By        Assoc. Prof. Andreas Blennow 
            University of Copenhagen, Denmark
14.00 – 14.30 Invited speaker Starch & Cassava 4:
Functional starches for technical uses
 By       Dr. Waltraud Vorwerg
            Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Germany
14.30 – 14.50 Oral presentation 10
Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of cassava-ethanol: Case study in Thailand
By        Dr. Chantima Rewlay-ngoen
           
Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, Thailand
14.50 – 15.10 Oral presentation 11
Effect of dry heat treatment with xanthan gum on pasting properties of different amylose rice starches
By        Mr. Jian Su
           
Kasetsart University, Thailand
15.10 – 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 – 16.00 Oral presentation 12
Comparative properties of stabilized, crosslinkes waxy cassava and waxy corn starches
By        Dr. Sunee Chotineeranat
           
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand
16.00 – 16.20

Oral presentation 13
Cassava starch hydrogel sheet for potential application as wound dressing
By        Dr. Kunruedee Sangseethong
           
National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand

16.20 – 16.40

Oral presentation 14
Thermoplastic starch-based materials for disposable food service ware and packaging applications
By        Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rangrong Yoksan

            Kasetsart University, Thailand

16.40 – 17.00 Oral presentation 15
Nanocrystalline starch particles: preparation and innovative application
By        Dr. Kittiwut Kasemwong
           
National Nanotechnology Center, Thailand
17.00 – 17.20 Oral presentation 16
Increase starch separation using Hydrocyclone technology
By        Dr. Kanchana Saengchan
           
King's Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi
17.20 – 17.40 Oral presentation 17
Cassava fibrous waste enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation: A systematic monitoring and control by LabVIEW based interface
By        Mr. Kiran Kumar Gali
           
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

Important Date

Public Relation
15 Nov 2016

31 Jan 2017
Early Bird Registration Rate
1 – 15 Feb 2017 Regular Registration Rate
Paper Submission
15  Nov 2016 First call for abstract submission
10 Jan 2017 Deadline for abstract submission
15 Jan 2017
20 Jan 2017
Notification of acceptance
25 Jan 2017 Deadline for well-proofed abstract (If any)
31 Jan 2017 Deadline for payment (to confirm the presentation)