General program schedule

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

Morning Plenary Session (open to all)

Chaired by Hiroyuki Takeda

09:00-09:45 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

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