Day 1 : 30th July 2019

Meeting Venue: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

(Drammensveien 78, Oslo)

9:00-12:00 : Opening session of the GA, restricted to IUBS members

Chaired by Hiroyuki Takeda

9:00-9:10 Opening by the President, Hiroyuki Takeda

9:10-9:20 Welcome address by the Organizer, Nils Christian Stenseth; Adoption of agenda

9:20-10:05 Reports on IUBS activities

9:20-9:35 Report on the scientific programmes by the Secretary General, LS Shashidhara

9:35-9:50 Report on the finances by the Treasurer, Santiago Merino

9:50-10:05 Report on the activities by the Executive Director, Nathalie Fomproix

10:05 - 10:15 Appointment of the ad hoc committees

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:10: Reports of IUBS scientific programmes of the last triennium

10:30-10:40 AgroEcosystem report (Peter Kevan)

10:40-10:50 BCGC report (Zhibin Zhang)

10:50-11:00 UBTI report (Nils Christian Stenseth)

11:00-11:10 iCCB report (Michelle Lawing)

11:10-11:50 Presentations of the applications for the new triennium

11:10-11:20 open Biodiversity and Health Big Data - BHBD (Yiming Bao)

11:20-11:30 Global Integrative Pastoralism Program – GIPP (Nils Christian Stenseth)

11:30-11:40 Conservation Paleobiology in Africa – CPIA (Johannes Müller)

11:40-11:50 Environmental education and climate change adaptation: science of pollution-tolerant and climate resilient plants (Vivek Pandey)

11:50-12:00 Governance of global taxonomics lists (Frank Zachos)

Afternoon Session (open to all)

13:00-17:00 : Plenary session on “A Century of Unifying Biology” – Part I

13:00-13:10: Welcome Address by the IUBS President: Professor Hiroyuki Takeda (Tokyo, Japan)

13:10-13:20: Welcome addresses by the organizing hosts: Hans Petter Graver (the President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters) and Svein Stølen (the Vice-Chancellor/Rector of the University of Oslo)

13:20-13:40: “From Charles Darwin till today: the unified biology through more than 150 years” by Professor Nils Christian Stenseth (Oslo, Norway)

13:40-14:00: “Linking taxonomy and evolution: from Linné to Darwin” by Professor Regine Jahn (Berlin, Germany)

14:00-14:20: “What can comparative demography teach us about ecology and evolution?” by Professor Dylan Childs (Sheffield, UK)

14:20-14:40: Break

14:40-15:00: “Macroevolution: linking paleontology and evolution” by Professor Matt Pennell

15:00-15:20: “Linking evolution and genomics” by Professor Leif Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden)

15:20-15:40: “Seeing the human history through the glasses of biology” by Associate Professor Martin Sikora (Copenhagen, Denmark)

15:40-16:00: “The advantages of living in groups” by Professor Raghavendra Gadagkar (Bangalore, India)

16:00-16:20: Break

16:20-16:40: “The major transitions through evolutionary history” by Professor Eörs Szathmary (Budapest, Hungary)

16:40-17:00: “Human evolution: A view from the Afar of Ethiopia" by Professor Berhane Asfaw (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia)

17:00-17:30: Break

Evening Session (open to all)

17:30-19:00 : Plenary session on “A Century of Unifying Biology” – Part II

17:30-17:50: "Science for Science, Science for Policy, Policy for Science and Open Science": chaired by Professor Hans Petter Graver, President, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

17:50-18:20: "The International Union of Biological Sciences: A perspective on evolution in action-20th century development and accomplishment, and potential 21st century leadership" by Professor Marvalee Wake (Berkeley, US): chaired by Nils Christian Stenseth

18:20-19:00: “Past, Present and Future of IUBS” – panel dialogue between past and current presidents of IUBS (David Hawksworth, Marvalee Wake, Motonori Hoshi, John Buckeridge, Hiroyuki Takeda): Chaired by Nils Christian Stenseth

Day 2 : 31st July 2019

Meeting Venue: The Science Library of University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo

(Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Moltke Moes vei 35 Blindern, Oslo)

Morning Plenary Session (open to all)

Chaired by Hiroyuki Takeda

09:00-09:40 Flash talks by the organisers of parallel sessions

9:00-9:05 Introduction about the different sessions and their links with IUBS

9:05-9:10 Science Forum (Lily Rodriguez)

9:10: 9:15 Big Data(Yiming Bao)

9:15-9:20 Climate Change (Zhibin Zhang)

9:20-9:25 Biological Consequences of Global Change (Yvon Le Maho)

9:25-9:30 TROP ICSU (LS Shashidhara)

9:35-9:40 Nomenclature and the governance of taxonomic lists (Regine Jahn)

09:45-11:15 Inclusive co-operation: The International Science Council, Inter-union Co-operation and “vision through a Gender Lens” Co-chaired by Lucilla Spini and John Buckeridge

11:15-11:35 coffee break

11:35-12:30 Plenary dialogue

Afternoon Parallel Sessions (open to all)

13:30-17:00

1) "Science Forum, dialogue between science and policy" chaired by Lily Rodriguez

2) "Nomenclature and Taxonomic List” chaired by Regine Jahn

Evening Session (Restricted to IUBS members)

Venue: The Science Library of University of Oslo (Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Moltke Moes

vei 35 Blindern, Oslo)

17:00 - 18:00 Round table, IUBS

“IUBS activities and how to enhance interactions between IUBS and its scientific and national members”

Chaired by Marvalee Wake and Harufumi Nishida

Day 3 : 1st August 2019

Meeting Venue: The Science Library of University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo

(Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Moltke Moes vei 35 Blindern, Oslo)

Morning Parallel Sessions (open to all)

09:00-12:30

1) “Big Data” chaired by Yiming Bao

2) "Climate Change: Biological Consequences of Global Change with a focus on the Three Pole initiative (of China) with iCCB, WCRP, WMO” chaired by Zhibin Zhang

Afternoon Parallel Sessions (open to all)

13:30-16:30

1) "TROP-ICSU :Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding" chaired by L S Shashidhara

2) "Biological Consequences of Global Change”, chaired by Yvon Le Maho

Evening Session (Restricted to IUBS members)

17:00 - 18:00 Round table, IUBS

“What new initiatives IUBS can take up in the new century”

Chaired by Mavalee Wake and Harufumi Nishida

Day 4 : 2nd August 2019 : Restricted to IUBS members

Meeting Venue: The Science Library of University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo

(Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Moltke Moes vei 35 Blindern, Oslo)

Morning Session

9:00-12:00 Closing session of the GA Chaired by Hiroyuki Takeda

9:00-10:30 Reports of the ad hoc committees:

9:00-9:05 Report of the Credential Committee

9:05-9:20 Report of the Statutes Committee - vote

9:20-9:35 Report of the Admissions Committee- vote

9:35-9:45 Report of the 34^th General Assembly Committee – vote

9:45-9:55 Report of the Finances Committee

9:55-10:15 Report of the Scientific Committee – vote

10:15-10:30 Report of the Resolutions Committee – vote

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Elections of the new Executive Committee

11:00-11:30 Speeches of candidates

11:30-11:40 Elections

11:40-11:55 Reports of the round tables during the counting of the votes,

11:55-12:00 Results of the votes

12:00-12:15 Closing remarks

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