◆◇學術研討會◆◇

  IUBS(	The 26th General Assembly and Symposium	on Frontiers in
    Biology:  The Challenges of	Biodiversity, Biotechnology and
    Sustainable	Agriculture)( 16-22 Novermer 1997 Academic
    Acitivity Center, Academia	Sinica,Taipei)

      Sponsorship Organizations

      International  Union of Biological Sciences (國際生物科學
      聯合會)

      Academia Sinica, Taipei (中央研究院)

      Council of Agriculture, Executive	Yuan (行政院農業委員會)

      Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Executive Yuan (行政院外交部)

      National Museum of Natural Science (國立自然科學博物館)

      National Palace Museum (國立故宮博物院)

      National	Science	Council, Executive Yuan	(行政院國家科學
      委員會)

      National Taiwan University (國立台灣大學)

      Taipei City Government (台北市政府)

      Taiwan Provincial	Government (台灣省政府)

      Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (台灣農業試驗所)

      Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute	(台灣特有生物研
      究保育中心)

      Taiwan Fishery Research Institute	(台灣水產試驗所)

      Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (台灣林業試驗所)

      Taiwan Livestock Research	Institute (台灣畜產試驗所)

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      Sunday, 16 November 1997
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      09:30∼12:00  Registration

      13:00∼17:00  Registration

      15:00∼19:00  IUBS Executive Committee Meeting

      Monday, 17 November 1997
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      08:30∼09:00 Registration

      09:00∼10:00 Opening Ceremony

      Moderator: Lucia Liu Severinghaus

      Welcome	address：Yuan-Tseh   Lee  (President,  Academia
			 Sinica, Taipei)

			 Werner	Arber (President, ICSU)

			 Chao-Shiuan Liu (Chairman, National
			 Science Council, Taipei)

			 Tso-Kwei Peng (Chairman, Council of
			 Agriculture, Taipei)

      Welcome Remarks: David L.	Hawksworth (President, IUBS)

      Vote  of	Thanks:	 C. H. Chou (Chairman, Local Organizing
			 Committee)

      10:20∼11:10 Plenary Lecture I

      Moderator: Marvalee H. Wake

      Peter Raven: Biodiversity	and the	human prospect

      11:10∼12:10 IUBS	GA:

      Presentation   of	  Secretary  General's  and  Treasure's
      Reports Establishment of Ad Hoc Committees

      13:25∼18:00 IUBS	GA: Major   Scientific	Programme
		   Presentation

      13:25∼15:30 Reports: Diversitas,	RBA, Bionomenclature

      15:45∼17:45 Reports:   Species  2000,  Biosystematics,
		   Bioethics

      19:00∼21:00 Welcome Reception－Hosted by	Academia Sinica

      Tuesday, 18 November 1997
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      09:00∼09:50 Plenary Lecture II

      Moderators: David	L. Hawksworth

      Giorgio	Bernardi: Structure   and  evolution  of  the
			  vertebrate genome

      Symposium	I --- Biodiversity

      10:10∼10:15 Moderators (V. Sokolov; Jen-Leih Wu吳金洌)

      10:15∼10:45 Marvalee  H.	 Wake: Integrative biology: An
		   approach to questions, answers, and training

      10:45∼11:15 Jean-Claude	Mounolou:  Molecular genetics:
		   Inputs and expectations

      11:15∼11:45 Braulio Dias: Challenges and	opportunity for
		   research  in	tropical biodiversity associated
		   with	the work program of the	convention on
		   biological diversity

      11:45∼12:15 General Discussion

      13:25∼13:30 Moderators (Gertrud Hauser; Ching-San Chen陳
		   慶三)

      13:30∼14:00 David  Hawksworth:  Getting	to  grips with
		   fungal diversity in the tropics

      14:00∼14:30 Peter Biro: Biodiversity of freshwater food
		   webs: What can they teach us

      14:30∼15:00 A.  Hamid  Zakri:  Scientific challenges to
		   implementing	the convention on biological
		   diversity

      15:00∼15:30 General Discussion

      15:45∼15:50 Moderators  (Gonzalo	 Halffter;  Chang-Hung
		   Chou周昌弘)

      15:50∼16:20 Juan	 C.  Castilla:	Marine	biodiversity:
		   Problems and	challenges for the next	century

      16:20∼16:50 Brian   Huntley:   Capacity	building  for
		   botanical diversity in southern Africa

      16:50∼17:20 Masahiko Higashi:  Trophic  interactions
		   linking biodiversity	to ecosystem
		   processes

      17:20∼17:50 Ernst-Detlef	  Schulze:  Biodiversity  and
		   ecosystem functioning

      17:50∼18:20 General Discussion

      Wednesday, 19 November 1997
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      09:00∼09:50 Plenary Lecture III

      Moderators: Jong-Ching Su

      Shang-Fa	Yang:  The  plant  senescence hormone ethylene:
      From biosynthesis	to biotechnology

      Symposium	II --- Biotechnology

      10:10∼10:15 Moderators (T. Okada; I. C. Liao廖一久 )

      10:15∼10:45 Ray	Wu:  Development  of transgenic	cereal
		   crop	plants that are	tolerant to high salt,
		   drought and low temperature

      10:45∼11:15 Ko Shimamoto: Molecular   biology  and
		   biotechnology of rice

      11:15∼11:45 Asis	 Datta:	 A  step  towards  developing
		   transgenic plants with high nutritional
		   quality

      11:45∼12:15 General discussion

      13:25∼13:30 Moderators  (Pieter	G.  W.	J.  van	Oordt;
		   Chien-Yih Lin林俊義)

      13:30∼14:00 Hiroshi Onozato: Spontaneous	androgenesis in
		   the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mikiss)

      14:00∼14:30 Xiu-Geng    Fei:   Seaweed	cultivation:
		   Opportunities for marine biotechnology

      14:30∼15:00 Hei-Ti  Hsu:	 Molecular  plant breeding for
		   virus resistance in ornamental crops

      15:00∼15:30 General discussion

      15:45∼15:50 Moderators (Terence J. Done;	Jei-Fu Shaw蕭介
		   夫)

      15:50∼16:20 Marc	 van  Montagu:	New  products  through
		   biotechnology

      16:20∼16:50 Teh-Yung   Liu:   Development   of  a  new
		   generation of biological products in	Taiwan

      16:50∼17:20 Gilbert Jay:	Functional genomics: Challenges
		   of the twenty-first century

      17:20∼17:50 General Discussion

      18:30∼20:30 Reception-Hosted by Taipei City Government

      Thursday,	20 November 1997
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      09:00∼09:50 Plenary Lecture IV

      Moderators: Shang-Fa Yang

      Werner Arber: Molecular	mechanisms   of	 biological
		    evolution


      Symposium	III ---	Sustainable Agriculture

      10:10∼10:15 Moderators (J. Uchmanski; The-Yeh Ku古德業)

      10:15∼10:45 T.  T. Chang: What constitutes "Sustainable
		   Agriculture"?

      10:45∼11:15 Stephen    R.   Gliessman:	Agroecology:
		   Researching	 the   ecological  processes
		   in  sustainable agriculture

      11:15∼11:45 Max	Whitten:  The  role of the small-scale
		   farmer  in  preserving  the	link  between
		   biodiversity	and sustainable	agriculture

      11:45∼12:15 General Discussion

      13:25∼13:30 Moderators(J. H. Kavanagh; S. Y. Yan	嚴紹頤)

      13:30∼14:00 Tae-Seok  Ahn: Application of ecotechnology
		   for nutrient	removal

      14:00∼14:30 S. T. Chang:	Development   of  novel
		   agroscience industries based	on
		   bioconversion technology

      14:30∼15:00 Shengii  Pei:  Biodiversity conservation in
		   the mountain	development of Hindu
		   Kush-Himalayas

      15:00∼15:30 General Discussion

      15:45∼15:50 Moderators (Osmo O. P. Hanninen; Cheng-Taung
		   Wang王政騰)

      15:50∼16:20 Chang-Hung	 Chou:	  Allochemicals	  in
		   sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first
		   century

      16:20∼16:50 Barbara    N.   Timmermann:	 Integrating
		   biodiversity	 prospecting, drug discovery,
		   conservation	and sustainable	development

      16:50∼17:20 Dieter   Mueller-Dombois:   Diversity   of
		   vegetation across the Asia-Pacific region

      17:20∼17:50 Khushnood A.	Siddiqui: Efficient sustainable
		   agriculture for the twenty-first century

      17:50∼18:30 General Discussion

      Friday, 21 November 1997
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      09:00∼10:30 IUBS	 GA:  Presentation of Ad Hoc Committee
		   Reports

      10:45∼12:00 Presentation	of the Ad Hoc Committee	Reports

      13:30∼16:30 GA and Election

      16:45∼17:30 Closing Ceremony

      17:30∼18:30 IUBS	New Executive Committee	Meeting

      19:00∼21:00 Farewell Banquet