The International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), together with the International Union of Biological Science (IUBS), will hold its 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (4th ISIZ) in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan province, China, from 4-6 December, 2010. The theme of the symposium is Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) – Data Analysis and Sharing.
Currently, Dr. Werner Arber, Nobel Laureate (1978); Dr. Giorgio Bernardi, IUBS President; Dr. Jean-Marc Jallon, ISZS President; Dr. Abraham Haim, ISZS Vice President and Dr. Nils Stenseth, an Executive member of both ISZS and IUBS have confirmed their attendance at the symposium.
The year 2010 is also the International Year of Biodiversity. To recognize this important designation, a special plenary session on biodiversity is planned for the first day of the symposium. In addition, there will be a special workshop for the ISZS international research program Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) on the second day of the symposium, at which the lead scientists will discuss future research to be undertaken by the group and share their comments on the program.
Attached, please find a copy of the symposium invitation from Dr Zhibin Zhang, Chair of the Organizing Committee of the symposium and the tentative program schedule for your reference.
The BCGC program web page can be accessed at:
www.globalzoology.org/WhatWeDo/ResearchProgram.aspx
For the program progress report please visit:
http://www.globalzoology.org/uploads/File/Progress%20Report_July%202010.pdf
To download materials about the participating scientists in the program please
click:
http://www.globalzoology.org/uploads/File/Participating%20Scientists.pdf
If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Also, it will be highly appreciated if you could replay this message to your colleagues and friends in your organization.
Kind Regards,
Han
For Dr. Zhibin Zhang
Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 4th ISIZ
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Chunxu Han
Treasurer & Chief Program Officer
International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) Room C506, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
1 Beichenxi Lu,
Chaoyang District,
Beijing 100101, P.R.China
Tel/Fax: 86-10-64807295
Email:iszs2@ioz.ac.cn; hanchunxu@sina.com www.globalzoology.org
Biological Consequences of Global Change
4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology
INVITATION
The International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), together with the International Union of Biological Science (IUBS), will hold its 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (4th ISIZ) at the Kunming Hotel in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, China, from 4 to 6, December 2010. The theme of the symposium is Biological Consequences of Global Change – Data Analysis and Sharing.
In 2008, the ISZS launched the international research program Biological Consequences of Global Climate Change (BCGCC). In October 2009, the program was expanded and renamed Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) and adopted by the IUBS as a new International Scientific Program at the 30th General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. Currently, 13 well-known, established scientists from the USA, Australia, Norway, Chile, Russia, India and China have already joined or have expressed interest in joining the program.
Conducting any scientific program like BCGC, historical data play an extremely important role. However, most of the existing programs on global change are being conducted by scientists and laboratories scattered around the world without a clear mechanism for data collaboration and information sharing. As a result, the focus of the 4th ISIZ will be on how to collect and analyze data for global change research so that the scientists from around the world can work together to plot out a practical approach to establish a working mechanism for international data analysis and information sharing.
The topics at the 4th ISIZ will consist of:
Global changes and biodiversity
Global changes and species conservation
Global changes and agricultural disaster
Global changes and diseases
Global changes and biological invasion
Study on global change in botanical gardens
Paleogeologic data and analysis
Historical data collecting and analysis
Biological specimen data collecting and analysis
Analytical tools and methods
Currently, the 4th ISIZ Organizing Committee is seeking symposium organizers. If you are interested in organizing the above mentioned sub-symposia or want to suggest other topics to be included, please contact us as soon as possible. The new International Research Program, BCGC, will be prominently featured during the symposium. The ISZS is also seeking expressions of interest from researchers and sponsors for the BCGC program. If you or your institution is interested, please contact the ISZS before 31 October 2010.
In order to encourage the involvement of students in the scientific community, an ISZS Young Scientist Award will be presented at the symposium to support young scientists and graduate students under 35 years of age participating in the ISIZ. Five awardees will receive up to 2000 RMB each. See the Registration Form for application instructions.
On behalf of the 4th ISIZ Organizing Committee, I warmly invite you to attend the 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology and encourage you to complete and return the registration form attached to this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Zhibin Zhang
Chair, 4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology
C-506 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 Beichenxi Lu, Beijing 100101, China
Tel : +86-10-64807295
Email: iszs@ioz.ac.cn
For Symposia: Dr. Wenhua Xiong (English and Chinese; inz@ioz.ac.cn)
Ms. Laurie Stahle (English; iszs@ioz.ac.cn)
Sponsorship and BCGC: Mr. Chunxu Han (English and Chinese; iszs2@ioz.ac.cn)
More Information: ISZS and 4th Symposium: www.globalzoology.org
IUBS and BCGC Program: www.iubs.org
Biological Consequences of Global Change
4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology
Scientific Committee
Chair:
Yiyu Chen, President, China Zoological Society; Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences; President, National Natural Science Foundation of China, China
Vice-Chair:
Giorgio Bernardi, President, International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS); Director, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Jean-Marc Jallon, President, International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS); Secretary General, IUBS; Director, Institut de Biologie Animale Intégraive et Céllulaire (IBAIC), France
Yongbiao Xue, President, China National Committee, IUBS; Director, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Member:
John Buckridge, Past-President, IUBS; President Emeritus, ISZS; Head of School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
Bernard Cazelles, Professor of Bio-Mathematics, University Paris 6, France
Kung-Sik Chan, Professor of Biology and Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Iowa, USA
Edwin Cooper, Member of Executive Committee, ISZS; Professor, Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology UCLA Los Angeles, USA
Yury Yu. Dgebuadze, Member of Executive Committee, IUBS; Deput-Director, the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Abraham Haim, Vice-President, ISZS; Professor, Faculty of Science and Science Education, University of Haifa, Israel
Juergen Heinze, Member of Executive Committee, ISZS; President of Central European Section of International Union for the Study of Social Insects; Full Professor (C4) at University of Regensburg, Germany
Motonori Hoshi, Past-President, IUBS; Professor of Biology, The Open University of Japan, Japan
John Jungck, Vice-President, IUBS; Mead Chair of Sciences, Beloit College, USA
Charles Krebs, Professor of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Kenneth M. Y. Leung, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Mauricio Lima Arce, Professor Biology, Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology & Biodiversity, Pontificia University, Chile
Valery Neronov, Deputy Chairman, Russian Committee for the UNESCO Program on Man and the Biosphere, Russia
Rosa-Maria Polymeni, Member of Executive Committee, ISZS; Professor, Section of Zoology and Marine Biology, Department of Biology, University of Athens, Greece
Francis Dov Por, President Emeritus, ISZS; Professor, Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University, Israel
Alain Roques, Director, Zoology Forestry, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
Hari C Sharma, Principal Scientist, Entomology, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Afrid Tropics, India
Boris Sheftel, Senior Scientist, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology & Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Grant Singleton, Senior Scientist and Coordinator, Irrigated Rice Research Consortium, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines
Nils Stenseth, Member, IUBS Executive Committee; Member, ISZS Executive Committees; Director, Centre for Ecological & Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biology University of Oslo, Norway
David Wake, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California; Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, USA
Organizing Committee
Chair:
Zhibin Zhang, Vice-President, IUBS; Vice-President, ISZS; Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Director-General, Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, CAS, China
Vice-Chair:
Yury Yu. Dgebuadz, Member of Executive Committee, IUBS; Deputy Director, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Keping Ma, Vice-Chairman, China National Committee, IUBS; Executive Vice-President, Biodiversity Committee, CAS; Director, the Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Member:
Jin Chen, Director, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Shengming Du, Director-General, Department of Life Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China
Nathalie Fomproix, Executive Director, IUBS
Song Ge, Deputy Secretary General, China National Committee, IUBS; Deputy Director, the Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Jianguo Han, Director-General, Bureau of International Cooperation, NSFC, China
Xiaoming Jin, Director-General, Department of International Cooperation, MOST, China
Yingnan Liang, Deputy Director General, Department of International Affairs, China Association fro Science and Technology (CAST), China
Yonglong Lu, Director-General, Bureau of International Cooperation, CAS, China
Anming Meng, Director, Institute of Zoology, CAS; Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hua Shen, Vice President, Kunming Branch, CAS, China
Song Wang，Secretary General, China National Committee, IUBS, China
Fuwen Wei, Deputy Director, Institute of Zoology, CAS; Secretary General, China Zoological Society, China
Yan Xie, Secretary General, ISZS; Director, China Program, WCS; Associate Professor, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China
Yaping Zhang, Director, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS; Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xianen Zhang, Director-General, Department of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), China
Xuefen Zhu, Deputy Director General, Department of Learned Societies Affairs, CAST, China
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Biological Consequences of Global Change
4th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology
Registration Form
I will attend the Symposium. I will present a paper or poster (please circle) at the Symposium. The title of my presentation/poster is:
Cancellation Policy
For meeting registration, cancellations received on or before 31 October 2010 will be refunded in full, minus a $50 processing fee for attendees from high income countries and $25 for attendees from low income countries and students. No refunds of any kind will be given for cancellation occurring after 1 November 2010.
Registration Fee
□ ISZS members US$120 □ Non-members US$160
□ Accompanying attendees US$150 □ Students US$85
Payment Options
International funds transfer
Bank name: Industry and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
Bank address: 55 Fuxingmennei Dajie, Xicheng District, Beijing, China, 100032
Bank account number: 0200004509088125063
Name of the bank account: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Swift code: ICBKCNBJBJM805
Bank telephone number: +86 10 6253 4349
Bank fax number: +86 10 6641 0055
Please notify Symposium Secretariat after your transfer: iszs@ioz.ac.cn or +86 10 6480 7295
ATTENDEE INFORMATION
Attendees may fill out the Attendee Information and Accommodation Information forms online at ioz2010.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1 or fill them out by hand and return them to the ISZS office (contact information below).
ATTENDEE INFORMATION (Important in helping get visa)
Surname Given Name
Gender □ Male □ Female Date of birth (dd-mm-yy)
Organization
Passport number
Title
Address
Telephone number Fax number
E-mail
Accompanying Attendee
Surname Given Name
Gender □ Male □ Female Date of birth (dd-mm-yy)
Organization
Passport number
Title
Address
Telephone number Fax number
E-mail
DATES OF ATTENDENCE
Date of Arrival
Date of Departure
FUNDING SUPPORT
The ISZS is able to provide some funds to a few participants only. If you would like to apply, please include a current CV and cover letter justifying your need for financial support. The ISZS is more likely to fund participants involved in the BCGC research program.
Reduced registration fee Estimated cost: US$
I need funding for air tickets Departure city Estimated cost: US$
I need funding for hotel If successful, the ISZS will arrange for a room shared with another ISZS supported attendee for the nights of 3 to 5 December 2010 only.
ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION
ACCOMMODATION: Kunming Hotel (4-star)
Room Cost per night Arrival date Departure date No. of nights No. of rooms Total due
Twin-bed Suite US$50
King-bed Suite US$50
Executive Suite US$80
Executive Deluxe Plus US$120
All hotel fees are collected in RMB/Chinese Yuan (RMB: USD = 6.8: 1, rate changes) and paid on site. Rooms are guaranteed on a first-come basis until Friday 3 December 2010. If you want a specific hotel, please indicate here. We would like to provide the necessary help. Meals over the symposium will be provided by the ISZS.
Address:
Kunming Hotel
52 Dongfenglu, Kunming, Yunnan, 650051, P.R. China
Tel: 86-871-3162063; Fax: 86-871-3163784
Please return the above forms to the ISZS office in Beijing via email, fax or post. Online registration is also available at ioz2010.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1.
• E-mail: iszs@ioz.ac.cn
• Fax: 86-010-64807295; Tel: 86-010-64807295
• Add: Room C-506, Institute of Zoology, CAS, 1 Beichenxi Lu, Beijing, 100101, P.R. China
How to apply for the “ISZS YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD”
To encourage students to be more involved in scientific community, the ISZS young scientist award was established to provide financial support of up to 2000 RMB for five young scientists and/or graduate students to attend this symposium. Researchers under 35 years of age may apply. Those wishing to be considered must submit a manuscript (review, original article or essay) to Integrative Zoology no later than 1 October, 2010. Along with the manuscript, applicants must submit an application letter outlining their research goals and achievements and a recommendation letter from a superior. Submissions should be emailed to inz@ioz.ac.cn. The winner will be notified in mid-October and receive a certificate and financial award during the symposium.