Director Shaw Chen Liu, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Research Center for Environmental Changes, is going to China and France to attend academic conferences from September 9 to October 21, 2010. During his absence, Deputy Director George Tin-Fuk Wong is the acting director.

　　Director Chung-Hsuan Chen, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Genomics Research Center, is going to the United States to attend an academic conference from September 15-19, 2010. During his absence, Deputy Director An-Suei Yang is the acting director.