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Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesAnnual ReportINTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONAND REGIONAL EXCHANGESInternational cooperation1. About 2012 international cooperationand exchangeIn 2012, KIB has 128 persons from 71 projectsvisiting 22 foreign countries for business, includingUK, Japan, USA and Canada. Thirteen personsattended academic meetings in China's TaiwanProvince 4 four times. KIB received 199 foreignscholars for visit. Moreover, it appointed 8 fulltimeforeign experts, fostered 9 overseas students,and jointly fostered 2 foreign PhD students. Itheld international meetings five times, and jointlypublished 70 SCI papers. It had 32 projects inprogress, including 18 new projects in 2012. Thetotal contracted fund was increased by RMB 10.53million.2. Key achievements and work progress of2012 international cooperation and exchange(1) Progress and achievements of internationalcooperation projectsUnder the support of CAS InternationalPartnership Program for Creative Research Teamsand the National Science Foundation (USA), KIB, incooperation with East Carolina University, conductedgenomics analysis on Physcomitrella patens of basaltaxa of terrestrial plants and found that the genome ofPhyscomitrella patens contains 57 gene families and128 genes originating from HGT, respectively frombacteria, fungus and virus.On 29 May 2012, LI De-Zhu, Director to KIB,represented the iBOL China National Committeeand signed "China-iBOL Memorandum ofUnderstanding", signifying that China raised its voicein the international barcode of life affairs and tha theapplication of DNA barcode technique was promotedin China.(2) Foreign meetings and overseas trainingsFunded by the National Natural SciencesFoundation of China and CAS, "EcoHealth 2012Conference" was held in Kunming from 15-18 October 2012, organized by the InternationalAssociation for Ecology & Health, and co-organizedby KIB as well as Asia-Pacific Academic Consortiumfor Public Health, International Water Association,Stockholm International Water Institute, InternationalLivestock Research Institute and Hawaii East-West Center. Almost 300 participants attended thisconference, including 247 foreign participants. Thisconference included five themes: Epistemologyand interdisciplinary research, emerging infectiousdiseases, environmental health risks, food safetyand human health & ecological health policies,public awareness and education. In diversifiedforms of meeting reports, papers, exhibitions,artistic performance and informal meetings, itprovided participants with a platform for interactionand communication to the maximum. During thisconference, it selected 12 ecohealth documentariesproduced by participant research teams, coveringTibet Plateau, Mountains in Yunnan, Golden Triagnel —— INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND REGIONAL EXCHANGES ——
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of SciencesAnnual Report(Burma), Laos and Thailand, Tonle Sap Lake Area(Cambodia) and Mekong Delta Area (Vietnam).Meanwhile, it invited folk artists from minority areasin Southwest China to exhibit local communities’understanding, knowledge, practice and innovationof the ecological system and human health througha series of artistic exhibitions. This conferencegathered ecohealth experts and scholars fromdifferent countries and regions. They communicatedand interacted with community practitioners,providing a wider perspective for scientificresearches, and also an extensive platform for crossregionaland interdisciplinary cooperation. Throughknowledge collection and exchange activities beforethe conference, it established an effective knowledgesharingmechanism and published a group of highqualityacademic papers in EcoHealth, effectivelypromoting knowledge transfer.KIB and Biodiversity-Based EconomyDevelopment Office of Thailand (BEDO) held a9-day training of "Application of Ethnobotany in theDevelopment of New Plant Products" In Bangkokand Chiangmai, including 5 lectures and 4-dayfield practice and demonstration. 25 professionalsattended this training, from BEDO branches, NDP,DOAE, BGO, HRDI, Chiang Mai University,and bio-pharmaceutical companies. This trainingwas mainly aimed at introducing ethnobotany, itsresearch methods and application in the biodiversityprotection and the development of new plant productsto further enhance the sustainable development ofthe bio-economy. This was the first time that ourethnobotany research team was invited by the foreigngovernment to provide systematic research methodtrainings abroad, which was great contributions tointernational scientific exchange and cooperation.(3) 2012 new international cooperation projects8 international or regional scientific exchange agreements were signed in 2012 as shown below:Agreement NameEconomic Plants Research & DevelopmentCooperation AgreementMemorandum of Understanding with University ofPavia (Italy)Cooperation agreement with Missouri BotanicalGardenMemorandum of Understanding on Plant ResourcesPreservation and Sustainable UtilizationLaboratory partners and partnership agreementCooperation with University of HohenheimCooperation on Plant Resources Preservation andSustainable UtilizationCooperation with Sam Houston State UniversityPartnerKorea Research Institute of Bioscience andBiotechnology (Korea)University of Pavia (Italy)Missouri Botanical Garden (USA)V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute (Russia)Chinese University of Hong KongUniversity of Hohenheim (Germany)Freie Universitt Berlin Germany (Germany)Sam Houston State University (USA)—— INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND REGIONAL EXCHANGES ——
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