Welcome to the 31st IUBS General Assembly and Conference on ...

Chair: LS Shashidhara
1600-1620 Jianchang Du: The Evolutionary Fate of Duplicated Genes in Soybean
1620-1640 Weidong Peng: Ascaris: Development of selected genotypes in mice
1640-1700 Jingdong Qin: Ceramide Regulation of HA Synthase
1700-1720 Xiangyu Ding: Research on <strong>the</strong> Inverse Problem of Ma<strong>the</strong>matical Physics between Product Quality
<strong>and</strong> Pho<strong>to</strong>syn<strong>the</strong>sis Process Control Efficiency of D. huoshanense
1720-1740 Javed Ujan: Association between polymorphism of Myogenic fac<strong>to</strong>r 6 with meat quality traits in
Chinese Indigenous cattle
1740-1800 Lijun He: Population dynamics <strong>and</strong> invasive his<strong>to</strong>ry of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus Clarkii)
830-1755 S-11. BioEthics & <strong>IUBS</strong> BioEd 2012 (Continued)
Meeting Room
Lotus 2, Suzhou
Xiangshan
International Hotel
830-1140 Quantitative Biology Education
Organizer
John Jungck, Professor, Department of Biology, Beloit College, USA; Email: jungck@beloit.edu
Section 1 Chair: John Jungck
830-900 2) Gabriella Rustici: Bioinformatics Training for Life scientists: EBI's User Training Programme
900-930 3) Enshan Liu: Models Used for Professional Development of In-service Biology Teachers in China
930-1000 4) Lorna Holtman & Samuel Kojo Kwofie: Developing undergraduate Quantitative Biology courses <strong>to</strong>
augment postgraduate enrollment in Bioinformatics <strong>and</strong> Computational Biology: Efforts <strong>to</strong>wards a
plausible model for Africa
1000-1020 Break
Section 2 Chair: Lorna Holtman
1020-1050 5) Klara Lokos Toth: Let him play as well …
1050-1120 6) Xianlin Zhou: Training <strong>to</strong> Science Teachers Applying Science Inquiry Teaching Methodology
1120-1140 7) John R. Jungck: Ma<strong>the</strong>matical Biology Education: Recent Developments <strong>and</strong> Future Challenges
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Workshop on Investigative Case-Based Learning
Organizers & Speakers
1) Margaret Waterman, Professor, Biology Department, Sou<strong>the</strong>ast Missouri State University, USA;
Email: mwaterman@semo.edu
2) E<strong>the</strong>l Stanley, Direc<strong>to</strong>r, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Beloit College, USA; Email:
stanleye@beloit.edu
Workshop Description by <strong>the</strong> Organizers & Speakers
Exploring Sustainability Issues while Addressing 21st Century Skills in <strong>the</strong> Classroom: We will focus
on introducing 21st century skills (UNESCO, 2011) as we explore contemporary problems including
sustainability <strong>and</strong> global health. Join us as we introduce cases <strong>to</strong> scaffold investigations as well as
global resources on sustainability data <strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong>ols.
1530-1800 Workshop on Writing Scientific Papers
Organizers
1) Carol Bacchus, VP & Publishing Direc<strong>to</strong>r, John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Email: cbacchus@wiley.com
2) Wenhua Xiong, Executive Direc<strong>to</strong>r & Edi<strong>to</strong>r, ISZS & INZ; Email: xiongwh@ioz.ac.cn
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