第31届国际生物科学暨生物产业大会
第二轮通知
第31届国际生物科学暨生物产业大会（英文：31st IUBS GA and Conference of Biological Sciences and Bioindustry）将于2012年7月5-9日在中国苏州召开。会议由国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）、中国科学院生命科学与生物技术局和国际合作局、中国科学技术协会国际联络部主办。国际生物科学联合会中国国家委员会（CCIUBS）、中国科学院动物研究所、植物所、遗传与发育所、国际动物学会和苏州市吴中区人民政府承办。
一、背景
国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）成立于1919年，是目前唯一覆盖生物科学所有学科的国际组织。IUBS是致力于生命科学研究、教育、社会与可持续发展的国际科学家组织，是国际科学理事会（ICSU）26个科学联合会成员之一。国际生物科学联合会主席和现任副主席均为国际科学理事会执行局成员，有权参与其科学委员会及科学项目工作。国际生物科学联合会与联合国教科文组织联系密切，与世界卫生组织、联合国粮农组织以及环境规划署、欧洲议会以及与生物科学研究和发展相关的其他国际组织、机构及基金组织，均有合作关系。
国际生物科学联合会大会每三年举行一次，会议期间将有来自世界各地的顶级生物科学家和国际组织单位负责人出席。同时，他们将带来自己的最新学术、科研、应用技术与管理经验等方面成果，在会议期间展开交流。会议还将讨论决定未来三年国际生物科学联合会科学发展与实施计划，决定相应计划的执行人与合作者；对领导官员和执行委员会委员进行换届选举。因此，被认为是世界性的生物科学盛会。
2012年在我国苏州举行的第31届大会，也是过去90年来在中国大陆举行的首次会议。其重点将集中在讨论研究世界范围内生物科学已取得的最新研究成果、目前发展状况和未来发展趋势等方面。会议包括大会报告、分会论坛、分组讨论、海报等多种形式。目前，已有数百位国内外著名专家学者确认出席会议或作学术报告。
二、时间
三、地点
中国江苏苏州太湖文化论坛国际会议中心
四、主题
本次会议的主题为：“生物科学与绿色生物技术”。会议将围绕会议主题，重点讨论研究在世界范围内生物科学已经取得的最新研究成果、目前发展状况以及未来发展趋势，特别是随着各种全球变化不断加剧和经济一体化不断强化，生物科学未来发展趋势与环境保护、利用、经济可持续性发展，以及生物科学与绿色生物技术之间的相互促进及互动关系，究竟如何进行科学研究，同时在科学研究、实际应用和政策管理等操作过程中，如何正确把握与广泛交流等方面，将成为本次会议的主要研究、讨论议题与展示内容。
五、内容：
1）国际生物科学联合会大会。
2）国际学术研讨会及论坛。备选领域：
l 气候变化生物学
l 生物多样性
l 基因组与进化
l 野生动物疫病
l 生物入侵
l 生物能源
l 生物产业
l 遗传资源获取与共享
l 世界遗产与保护地管理
l 合成生物学
l 纳米生物学
l 干细胞与再生医学
l 气体传导生物学
l 生物计算
l 生物伦理与生物学教育
3）展会备选领域：
l 生物医药
l 生物能源
l 生物材料
l 医疗器械设备、科研仪器、耗材与试剂
六、规模
本次会议规模计划为800-1000人左右。其中，国际代表300-400人左右，主要来自澳大利亚、奥地利、比利时、保加利亚、智利、克罗地亚、捷克、丹麦、厄瓜多尔、芬兰、法国、德国、匈牙利、印度、冰岛、以色列、日本、黎巴嫩、墨西哥、摩纳哥、荷兰、新西兰、挪威、波兰、罗马尼亚、俄罗斯、沙特阿拉伯、南非、西班牙、瑞典、瑞士、英国、美国等国际生物科学联合会会员国家，以及70多个分布在世界各地的科学会员组织代表。目前，国际生物科学联合会主席、意大利科学家Giorgio Bernardi教授、挪威科学院院士Nils Chr. Stenseth教授和中国科学院院士周忠和教授，已确认参加会议，并作大会主旨发言。
七、会议语言
本次会议工作语言为英语
八、主办单位
国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）
中国科学院生命科学与生物技术局
中国科学院国际合作局
中国科学技术协会国际联络部
九、承办单位
国际生物科学联合会中国全国委员会
国际动物学会
中国科学院动物研究所
中国科学院遗传与发育所
江苏吴中区人民政府
十、会议组委会：
主席：
Giorgio Bernardi 国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）主席
李家洋 中国科学院 副院长
副主席：
John Jungck 国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）副主席
张知彬 中国科学院生命科学与生物技术局 局长
十一、学术委员会：
主席：
陈宜瑜 国家自然科学基金会主任
John Buckeridge 国际生物科学联合会（IUBS）前主席
副主席：
Jean-Marc Jallon 国际动物科学学会主席
薛勇彪 中科院遗传与发育生物学研究所所长
十二、主要日程
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IUBS年会+展会 |
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招待晚宴 |
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学术研讨+展会 |
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学术研讨+展会 |
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IUBS年会闭幕及执委会 |
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十三、会议注册费
外宾注册费：美元350元；（现场交费：美元400元）
内宾注册费：人民币2200元；（现场交费：人民币2500元）
国际学生：美元140元；（现场交费：美元150元）
中国学生：人民币900元；（现场交费：人民币1000元）
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十四、汇款信息
1．银行汇款：
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开户银行：中国银行北京西奥中心支行
2．邮局汇款：
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十六、报到地点：
苏州市吴中区太湖论坛国际会议中心南门大厅内
十七、会议秘书处
负责人：熊文华博士 韩春绪博士
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Symposia on Biological Sciences
As the only international body that covers all disciplines of biological sciences, the IUBS hosts and organizes international symposia in tandem with its GA so as to provide an opportunity for the international biological community to exchange information, discuss interdisciplinary studies and promote international collaboration in scientific research programs. Topics are selected on the basis of originality and feasibility, as well as their relevance with respect to the IUBS mission.
Tentative Sessions and Invited Speakers
Plenary Lectures:
1. Giorgio Bernardi: Evolution in the genomic era (Confirmed)
2. Zhonghe Zhou: Evolution as a scientific theory: evidence from remarkable Chinese fossils (Confirmed)
3. Deliang Chen: Grand challenge in Earth System with a focus on climate (Confirmed)
4. Nils Chr. Stenseth: Ecological effect of climate change (Confirmed)
Session 1: Climate Change Biology + IUBS/ISZS BCGC Program + iCCB
Organizers: 1) Zhibin Zhang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2）Nils Stenseth, Professor, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Norway (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. John Buckeridge: Barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) - tenacious opportunists who have demonstrated extraordinary adaptive resilience to environmental change (Confirmed)
2. David Nogués-Bravo: Why we do not have mammoths in our backyard? Species extinctions under climate change (Confirmed)
3. Xinhai Li: Applying species distribution models in climate change studies (Confirmed)
4. Hari Sharma: Biological consequences of climate change on arthropod diversity, pest management, and food security (Confirmed)
5. Brian Helmuth and Mackenzie Zippay: Forecasting sublethal impacts of climate change in marine ecosystems: sometimes the details make all the difference (Confirmed)
6. Morley SA, Bates AE, Peck LS: Using range limit hotspots to predict physiological response to climate change (Confirmed)
7. Tom Oliver: Promoting resilience or accommodating change? Aims for site and landscape management under a changing climate (Confirmed)
8. David B. Wake: Direct and Indirect Effects of Anticipated Climate Change on Amphibians (Confirmed)
9. Thomas E Martin: Climate change influences on trophic interactions that affect breeding bird and plant communities
10. Mikael Forteilus (Confirmed)
11. Greg Dietl (Confirmed)
12. David Polly (Confirmed)
13. Jussi Eronen (Confirmed)
Session 2: Genomics and Evolution + IUBS Integrative Genomics Program
Organizers: 1) Song Ge, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2) Hiroyuki Takeda, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan (Confirmed)
3) Giorgio Bernardi, Professor, Laboratory of Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Biology Department, Rome 3University, Italy (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Reski Ralf: Shedding light on 500 million years of plant evolution: a tribute to Dobzhansky
2. Daniel Hartl: Evolvability in Sequence Space (Confirmed)
3. Wen-Hsiung Li: Avian Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics (Confirmed)
4. Hiroyuki Takeda: Epigenetic regulation of key developmental genes - A genome-wide approach in the medaka fish (Confirmed)
5. Wen Wang: Genome evolution under natural or artificial selection (Confirmed)
6. Norman Y. S. Woo: Distribution and expression studies on aquaporin-1 (AQP-1) and the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) in silver sea bream (Confirmed)
7. Jian-Dong Li: Regulation of Inflammation and Host Defense – from Genomics to Therapeutics (Confirmed)
8. Song Ge: Genome-wide patterns of divergence during sympatric speciation: A case study in two wild rice species (Confirmed)
9. Giorgio Bernardi (Confirmed)
10. Chung-I Wu (Confirmed)
11. Huanming Yang (Confirmed)
12. Takashi Gojobori (Confirmed)
13. Rod Wing (Confirmed)
Session 3: Nature Heritage, Protected Area and Conservation + IUBS Biology and Traditional Knowledge Program
Organizers: 1）Song Wang, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2）Yan Xie, Associate Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
3）Jan Salick, Senior Curator and Professor, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA (Confirmed)
4）John MacKinnon, Head, Visibility and Awareness, Europe-China Biodiversity Program (ECBP）(To be confirmed)
Session 4: Paleontology and Evolution
Organizers: 1) Zhonghe Zhou, Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2) Else Marie Friis，Professor，Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Guido Grimm: Phylogenetic tools in reconstructing past evolutionary patterns (Confirmed)
2. Mike Benton: Dating the tree of life: combing paleontology and molecular phylogenetic inference (Confirmed)
3. Stefan Bengtson: Radiation of early multicellular life: Biotic and environmental setting (Confirmed)
4. Shuhai Xiao: Ediacaran biodiversity: Biological evolution and environmental evolution (Confirmed)
5. Renbin Zhan and Jiayu Rong: Major macroevolutionary events and their dynamics between 480 Ma and 400 Ma of Earth history: Evidences from South China (Confirmed)
6. Jason Hilton: Phylogenetic and environmental aspects of early seed plant radiation (Confirmed)
7. Min Zhu: Evolution and early radiation of jawed vertebrates (Confirmed)
8. Per Ahlberg: Integrated morphological-molecular research in the study of early vertebrate evolution (Confirmed)
9. Shuzhong Shen: How rapid was the biggest biological mass extinction during the Phanerozoic? (Confirmed)
10. Jin Meng: Developmental and paleontological evidence converges on evolution of the mammalian middle ear (Confirmed)
11. Xing Xu: Origin and evolution of birds: combining paleontological and developmental evidence (Confirmed)
12. Else Marie Friis and Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen: The enigma of angiosperm origin (Confirmed)
13. Greg Wilson: The adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and tracking the rise of angiosperms (Confirmed)
14. Meemann Chang: Ascent with modification: fossil fishes show adaptation to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (Confirmed)
15. Caroline A.E. Strömberg: The spread of grassland ecosystems during the Cenozoic: A story of co-evolution? (Confirmed)
16. Diane Edwards: Global environmental effects of the colonization of the land in the Palaeozoic (Confirmed)
18. Pavel Yu Parkhaev: Early Radiation of Mollusca (Confirmed)
19. Gareth Nelson: Biogeography as a tool in evolutionary studies (to be confirmed)
Session 5: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Organizers: 1）Keping Ma, Professor, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2）Jeffrey McNeely, Former Chief Scientist, IUCN, Swaziland (Confirmed)
Session 6: Mutualism and Evolution
Organizers: 1) Jin Chen, Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (To be confirmed)
2) Zhishu Xiao, Associate Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1．Provorov Nikolay A: Application of symbiotic models to resolve the urgent problems of evolutionary biology (Confirmed)
2. Manuel Nogales: Long-distance movement of seeds to and between oceanic islands: revising paradigms of plant syndromes and mechanisms of dispersal by animals (Confirmed)
3. Rhett Harrison (Confirmed)
4. Michael A Steele (Confirmed)
Session 7: Wildlife Diseases
Organizers: 1) Hongxuan He, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2）Dale Nolte, Assistant Coordinator, National Wildlife Disease Program, Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, USA (Confirmed)
Speakers: Santiago Merino Rodríguez: Interactions between hemoparasites-vectors and wild birds
Session 8: Biological Security
Organizers: 1) Jianghua Sun, Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2）Alain Rogues, Professor, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Andrea Battisti: New automatic methods for detecting quarantine pests and diseases (Confirmed)
2. Alain Roques: Insect invasions in Europe and vulnerability of European tree species (Confirmed)
3. Jianqing Ding: Evolved defense to herbivory in invasive plants (Confirmed)
4. Jianghua Sun: Mutulastic invasion - a case study (Confirmed)
Session 9: Bioenergy
Organizers: Jian Xu, Professor, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Greg Mitchell: (Confirmed)
2. Edward Bayer: (Confirmed)
3. Qiang Hu: (Confirmed)
4. Wei Huang: (Confirmed)
Session 10: Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge
Organizers: 1) Dayuan Xue, Professor, College of Life and Environmental Science, Minzu University of China; Chief Scientist on Biodiversity, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Ministry of Environment Protection of China (Confirmed)
2) Chee Yoke Ling, Director and law expert, the Third World Network, located in Malaysia (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Gurdial Nijar: Implementing the Nagoya Protocol on ABS: Issues and Challenges for Developing Countries (Confirmed)
2. Edward Hammond: Biopiracy continues: Some case studies and lessons for national ABS regulation (Confirmed)
3. Kazuo N. Watanabe: Potential Impact on Nagoya Protocol to Academic Research (Confirmed)
4. Chunlin Long: Investigation of Traditional Knowledge of Medicinal Plant Resources in Jingxi, Guangxi Automnous Region (Confirmed)
5. Fengchun Zhang: On Potential Values of Genetic Resources (Confirmed)
6. Jianyong Wu: The case studies on historical collection of Chinese plant species in some botanical gardens of USA and European countries (Confirmed)
7. Jing Xu: Considerations and Designation of National Administrative Process for China ABS (access and benefit Sharing) System after the entry into force of Nagoya Protocol (Confirmed)
8. Junnian Li: The investigation on genetic resources of domestic animals and poultry and traditional knowledge in Miao and tujia ethnic areas of West Hunan Province (Confirmed)
9. Fayao Li: The case study on benefit sharing for the local fragrant rice in Liping Dong EthnicCounty, Quizhou Province (Confirmed)
10. Jiuxuan ZHou and Siming Wang: A Case Study on Change and Its Causes of Agricultural Seed Resource Diversity in Hei’er Village, Yunnan Province (Confirmed)
11. Gong Cheng: On blueprint and route map for access and benefit sharing of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge (Confirmed)
12. Jingbiao Yang: A case study on benefit sharing for traditional ethnic medicine in Libo County,Guizhou Province (Confirmed)
13. Rong Dai: A case study on access and benefit sharing of a local pig variety (Black pig) in theWest Hunan Province (Confirmed)
14. Cheng Wang: A preliminary study on the ethical code of conduct for genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in minority areas of China. (Confirmed)
15. Seizo Sumida: (Confirmed)
Session 11: Systems and Synthetic Biology of Industrial Microorganisms
Organizers: 1) Yin Li, Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2) Han de Winde, Professor, Delft University of Technology, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, the Netherlands (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Han de Winde: Yeast as a Modern Platform for Biofuels and Biochemicals Production (Confirmed)
2. Vera Meyer: Aspergillus niger as a Modern Platform for Protein Production (Confirmed)
3. Ronald de Vries: Physiological and Molecular Aspects of the Utilisation of Complex Substrates by Fungi (Confirmed)
4. Peter Bron: Lactic Acid Bacteria for Food and Fuel (Confirmed)
5. Aljoscha Wahl: Novel developments in microbial Systems Biology approaches (Confirmed)
6. Han de Winde: Systems Engineering of Solvent Tolerant Pseudomonas for Aromatics Production (Confirmed)
7. Patricia Osseweijer: Bridging Current Issues in Science and Society, in Europe and China (Confirmed)
8. George Guo-Qiang: Synthetic and Systems Biology Approaches for Making Novel Biopolymers (Confirmed)
9. Wen Liu: Biological Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Important Agents in Microorganisms (Confirmed)
10. Chen Yang: Reconstruction of Sugar Utilization Pathways and Regulons in Solventogenic Clostridia (Confirmed)
11. Jibin Sun: System Biology of Aspergillus niger – a Versatile Cell Factory for Enzyme and Organic Acid Production (Confirmed)
12. Chaoguang Tian: Neurospora crassa as a Golden Model of Filamentous Fungi for Industrial Biotechnology (Confirmed)
13. Yin Li: Systems Biotechnology for the Production of Bio-based Solvents (Confirmed)
14. Lianhong Sun: Engineered Quorum Sensing Systems for Applications in Synthetic Biology (Confirmed)
Session 12: Nanobiology
Organizers: 1) Lei Jiang, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2) Xingyu Jiang, Professor, the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Paresh Chandra Ray: Gold Nanotechnology for Biology (Confirmed)
2. Lianbing Zhang: Biological Uptake Pathway for Cellular Delivery of Nanomatherials (Confirmed)
3. Michael Wilson: Enhancement of the effectiveness of light-activated antimicrobial agents by gold nanoparticles (Confirmed)
4. Kibum Lee: Nanotechnology approaches for regulating cancer/stem cell fate (Confirmed)
5. Xiaogang Liu: Lanthanide-doped nanomaterials: synthesis and bioapplications (Confirmed)
6. Huan-Tsung Chang：DNA Functional Gold Nanoparticles for the Control of Enzyme Activity (Confirmed)
7. Shutao Wang: Bio-Inspired Adhesive Surface for Cell-Based Cancer Diagnostics (Confirmed)
8. Xingyu Jiang: Gold nanoparticles activates prodrugs as effective antibiotics against multidrug -resistant bacteria (Confirmed)
Session 13: Stem Cell and Reproductive Medicine
Organizer: Duanqing Pei, Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
Session 14: Gasotransmitters in Biology
Organizers: 1) Guangdong Yang, Research Assistant Professor, the School of Kinesiology, Lakehead University, Canada
2) Yanxi Pei, Professor, Vice Dean of College of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Speakers: 1. Hongzhu Li: Interaction of hydrogen sulfide and estrogen on smooth muscle cell proliferation (Confirmed)
2. Xin Liu: Gasotransmitters in stomatal movement of plant (Confirmed)
3. Shaowu Xue: CO2 signaling in Arabidopsis guard cells (Confirmed)
4. Hua Zhang: H2S in plants, the history is just beginning (Confirmed)
5. Weihua Zhang: Calcium sensing receptor regulates endogenous H2S to inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation in diabetic rat (Confirmed)
6. Wenhao Zhang: Gas molecules and plant response to abitoc stress (Confirmed)
7. Guangdong Yang: How to promote longevity: let H2S count the way (Confirmed)
8. Yanxi Pei: Hydrogen sulfide alleviates cadmium toxicity in Arabidopsis thaliana (Confirmed)
Session 15: Biocomputation
Organizers: 1) Jingdong Han, Professor, CAS-MPG Partner institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Confirmed)
2) John Jungck, Professor, Department of Biology, Beloit College, USA (Confirmed)
Speakers: 1. Peter Lockhart: How it is possible to better understand systematic error in phylogeneomic data (Confirmed)
2. Rubem Mondaini: The mathematical programming approach to protein structures and their stability (Confirmed)
3. Christopher Welsh: Fostering interdisciplinarity at the interface of biology and mathematics: lessons from a national institute (Confirmed)
4. John R. Jungck: Computational Geometric, Topological, and Spatial Statistical Analyses of Dividing Epithelia (Confirmed)
5. Michael Zhang: Novel Markov model of induced pluripotency predicts gene expression changes in reprogramming (Confirmed)
6. Philipp Khaitovich: Metabolome evolution of human tissues (Confirmed)
7. Yixue Li: Association network and related regulatory mechanism resulted from protein translational modification data (Confirmed)
8. Yong Zhang: Global Nucleosome Repositioning During Genome Activation (Confirmed)
9. Xia Li (Confirmed)
10. Yangdong Wang (Confirmed)
11. Jingdong Han (Confirmed)
Session 16: Bioethics/Biological Education
Organizers: 1）John Buckeridge, Professor, School of Civil, Engineering & Chemical Engineer, RMIT University, Australia (Confirmed)
2） Li Zhang, Associate Professor, College of Life Science, Beijing Normal University (Confirmed)
3）John Jungck, Professor, Department of Biology, Beloit College, USA (Confirmed)
4) Enshan Liu, Professor, College of Life Science, Beijing Normal University (Confirmed)
5) Margaret Waterman, Professor, Biology Department, Southeast Missouri State University, USA
6) Lorna Holtman, Deputy Dean, Zoology Department, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Republic of South Africa
7) Lily Rodriguez, Sede Servicio Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas Ministerio del Ambiente, Peru
8) Ethel Stanley, Director, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Beloit College, USA
Speakers: 1. John Buckeridge: Environmental ethics - global issues and an Australasian perspective (Confirmed)
2. Michael Atchia: Regional responses, both environmental and bioethical (Confirmed)
3. Hussein Salama: Environmental awareness and conservation of biological resources in Egypt (Confirmed)
4. Raymond Katebaka: Effective biodiversity conservation challenges in Africa: A case of East Africa (Confirmed)
5. Rachel Ankeny (Read by John Buckeridge): Current issues in bioethics in Australia (Read by John Buckeridge, Confirmed )
6. Lorna Holtman: On southern African issues (Confirmed)
7. Darryl Macer: SE Asia perspectives (Confirmed)
8. Aster L. Zhang: China perspectives (Confirmed)
9. Margaret Waterman: (Confirmed)
10. Ethel Stanley: (Confirmed)
