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Anupam Varma Advanced Centre for Plant Virology Division of Plant Pathology Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi, India Tel. (+91 11) 2584 2134 Fax. (+91 11) 2584 2134 Email. anupamvarma  vsnl.net |
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| Professor Anupam Varma is Chair of the Regional Committee. He joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in 1967 and is currently National Professor of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). He has made many important contributions to fundamental and applied aspects of plant virology which are widely quoted and acclaimed. He has published more than 150 research papers and invited review articles and has edited seven books. He has special interest in the application of biotechnology for sustainable development and issues related to biosafety of GM crops and SPS measures of the WTO. Prof. Varma is a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, National Academy of Sciences, India, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Founder Fellow), Indian Phytopathological Society and Indian Virology Society. He was the President, Agricultural Sciences, Indian Science Congress (1988-89), Vice-President, Indian Virology Society (1990-92), Founder Secretary, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1990-98), President, Biological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India (1993), Secretary General, International Society of Plant Pathology (1993-98), Vice-President, International Congress of Plant Pathology, Edinburgh (1998), President, Indian Phytopathological Society (1998-99), Vice-President, International Society for Plant Pathology (1998-2003), Vice-President, Indian National Science Academy (2005-2007). He has been honored with several awards including the VASVIK and Om Prakash Bhasin Awards for Science and Technology. |
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Jennifer Graves Research School of Biological Sciences Australian National University GPO Box 475 Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia Tel. (+61 2) 6125 2492 Fax. (+61 2) 6125 4891 Email. graves  rsbs.anu.edu.au |
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| Professor Jenny Graves works in animal genetics and genomics. Her group uses the distant relationship of Australian mammals and humans to understand how genes and chromosomes evolved and how they work in all mammals including humans. Kangaroos and platypus are her specialty, but she also investigates bird and reptile genomes. Her laboratory is famous for using this unique perspective to explore the origin, function and (dismal) fate of human sex chromosomes, and even to discover novel human genes. Jenny has produced three books and 300 research articles. She is head of the Comparative Genomics Research group in the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU, and Director of the ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and 2006 L'Oreal-UNESCO Laureate, and has received a number of honors and awards, including the Academy's Macfarlane Burnet medal in 2006. |
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Muhamad Awang Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang Malaysia Tel. (+60 3) 8948 6539 Fax. (+ 60 3) 8943 2516 Email. awang  env.upm.edu.my |
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| Professor Muhamad Awang works on the impacts of atmospheric pollutants and climate change on ecosystem physiology of tropical rain forests species and agricultural crops. He has coordinated research on the impacts of haze on agricultural crops and forest species, human and animal health, and their economic implications for the government of Malaysia. He is a member of Expert Group of the International Committee on Acid Rain and Oxidant, and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for East Asia Network for Acidic Deposition (EANET). He has also served as the National Focal Point for Global Environmental Change and Sustainable Development, Impact Centre for Southeast Asia (IC-SEA), Bogor, Indonesia. He was the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs of Universiti Putra Malaysia (2000 – 2005) and is a recipient of the prestigious Langkawi Award for his contributions in the field of the environmental science. He is a member of the Environmental Quality Council (EQC) of Malaysia and chairs many National Committees and Sub-committees on research on the environment. He is a Fellow and Member of Council of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. |
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Professor Ali. A Moosavi-Movahedi |
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| Professor Moosavi-Movahedi works in the field of thermodynamics and kinetics of proteins, enzymes and DNA and is the Vice-chancellor for Research and Technology at the University of Tehran . He is a member of Biophysical Society (USA), Protein Society (USA), Biochemical Society (UK),Iranian Chemical Society, Iranian Biochemical Society and is currently the President of Iran Society of Biophysical Chemistry (ISOBC). He is the author of 8 books and 220 research papers, and is currently a member of Editorial Board of Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society (JICS), Advisory Research Board of the American Biographical Institute (ABI) and the Editor-in-Chief of Rahyaft (Quarterly Science Policy Journal of National Research Institute for Science Policy). He has won several awards including the International Khawarazmi Prize (1990), National Distinguished Professor (1997), University of Tehran 's research prizes (1990-2003), The First Class Medal for Research, University of Tehran , 2003, National Eminent Character 2003, University of Tehran Distinguished Scientist Award and first rank medal for basic science research in Razi Medical Science National Festival 2005. |
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Mustafa Bagirov Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Istiglaliyyet str. 10 Baku Azerbaijan Tel. (+994 12) 492 3446 Fax. (+994 12) 492 5699 Email. bagirovmustafa  yahoo.com mustafa  aas.ab.az |
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| Mustafa is the Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He specializes in oriental and political science and studied Persian history, language and literature. |
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Kan Zhang Institute of Psychology CAS, 10-A, Da Tun Lu Beijing, 1001 China Tel. (+86 10) 6483 7096 Fax. (+86 10) 6483 7182 Email. zhangk  psych.ac.cn |
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Mingsarn Kaosa-ard Social Research Institute Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai , 50200 Thailand Tel. (+66 53) 892 353, 942 593 Fax. (+66 53) 892 649, 942 572 Email. mingsam  chiangmai.ac.th |
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| Dr. Mingsarn is a Professor of Economics, Chiang Mai University , Thailand and is the Director of its Social Reserach Institute. Her research includes environmental planning and environmental sector priority setting, water resources management; Mekong basin management (natural resources and environment); integrated development of sustainable tourism in the Mekong Basin, sustainable agriculture, trade and investments, and trade competitiveness (in trade, development and agriculture) and in public participation. She has served with UNESCAP (1979-1989) and with the Thailand Development Research Institute as its Research Director of Sectoral Economics Programme (1991-1992), Research Director of the Natural Resources and Environment Programme (1993-1995) and was its Vice President (1996-1998). S he has won several prestigious national research awards and was National Best Researcher in 2005. Dr. Mingsarn has served in a number of international and national committees. These include the Technical Advisory Committee of the DANIDA Forest Seed Centre (2002-2004), Member of the Board of Trustees of ICRAF (1998-2004), the National Water Resources Committee in Thailand . She is a Member of Advisory Committee, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). |
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Motonori HOSHI |
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| Professor Motonori Hoshi works in the field of developmental and reproductive biology, and in glycobiology. He was a Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1985-2000), Visiting Professor, University of the Philippines , Diliman (1991), Miller Visiting Professor, University of California , Berkeley (1992), and Professor at Keio University (2000-2006). At Tokyo Institute of Technology, he served also as Department Chairman, Dean and Chief Presidential Aide, and has been Professor Emeritus, since 2000. He is currently Professor at The University of The Air (2006- ), Senior Visiting Researcher at Riken Genomic Sciences Center (2001-present), and Fellow of International Institute for Advanced Sciences (2006-). Professor Hoshi is active in several learned societies and was the President, International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction (1990-1992), and President, Zoological Society of Japan (1999-2002), and is currently serving as the President, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) (2004-2007). He served also as the Editor-in-Chief, Development Growth and Differentiation (1994-1996), and Asian-Pacific Editor for Zygote (1996-2000). He was a member of the Science Council of Japan (1997-2005) and is Senior Academic Advisor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2001- present). In ICSU, he serves as a member of the Committee for Scientific Pl anning and Review (2006-). |
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M. Shamsher Ali |
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| Professor Shamsher Ali is the Vice-Chancellor of Southeast University in Dhaka and is a Professor of Physics. He is currently the President of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He has a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics from Manchester University and was with the Atomic Energy Commission of Bangladesh for more than 20 years. He was the Director of the Atomic Energy Centre from 1970 to 1978. He is Honorary Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste , Italy . He is a Fellow of TWAS (the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World), Italy , the Islamic Academic of Sciences, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences and Bangladesh Physical Society. He is a Board Member of the Inter Academy Panel, FASAS (Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies) and is Vice-President of AASA (Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia ). He is the winner of several prestigious awards including the the Hari Prasanna Roy Gold Medal, the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal, and the Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Gold Medal. He is an elected Honorary Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. His special interests include popularization of science and technology, science and development issues in the Third World , synthesis of science and religion and in the integrated teaching of physics. |
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Derek J. Gardiner |
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| Professor Derek J Gardiner is Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the South Pacific whose member states comprise the Cook Islands, Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Solomon Islands , Samoa, Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , and Vanuatu . He was Reader and Dean at the School of Applied Sciences , Northumbria University , United Kingdom , for many years before taking up his current appointment in 2006. His research has evolved around the application of optical spectroscopy to materials evaluation and characterisation. Areas of interest include non-aqueous solutions, elastohydrodynamic lubrication, high temperature corrosion and silicon electronic and micromechanical devices. Along with colleagues, he was inventor of - the "Microline Focus Spectrometer" for high spectral and spatial resolution imaging. Current research involves stress mapping silicon micro-resonators and exploring the integrity and stability of thermal barrier coatings. Professor Gardiner has published over 100 journal papers and articles and was winner of the “Sir Harold Thompson” award in 1986. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
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Congbin Fu Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100029, China . Phone: 86-10-82995134 Fax: 86-10-82995135 E-mail: fcb@tea.ac.cn |
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| Professor Congbin Fu, Vice President of the China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) is Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Research Professor at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP). He graduated from the Nanjing University in 1962, did his graduate studies at the Graduate School , Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing from 1957 to 1962 and received degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of Goteborg University of Sweden in 2007. He is Joint Professor of several university, including Nanjing University and Lanzhou University . Congbin studies climate variability and dynamics, including air-sea interaction, air-land interaction, and climate-ecosystem interaction at global and regional scales. He has published about 140 scientific papers, 6 books and more than 10 chapters in co-authored books. He has won several prizes and awards for his research on climate variation, monsoon variability and on international cooperation. Congbin serves in several international scientific organizations, including member of the Executive Board of ICSU, President of Pacific Science Association, Director of START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia, and Chair of Scientific Steering Committee, Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS) of Earth Science System Partnership (ESSP). |
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| Nordin Hasan has been involved in research on the ecosystem approach in environmental management and biodiversity conservation at the local and international levels. He has led research in the health of a large scale ecosystems in Malaysia and in the development of ecosystem status indicators at the international level. He is a Commissioner with the Commission on Ecosystem Management ( CEM ) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and was the Founding Director of the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malaysia), President of the Environmental Management and Research Association of Malaysia, President of the Malaysian Society of Applied Biology and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Worldwide Fund for Nature, Malaysia. He is Emeritus Professor (Environment and Development), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia . He has been awarded the Rotary International Research Foundation Gold Medal for Excellence in Research and Development on the Environment. |
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