Program Rundown

Date: 7/6 8/6 9/6 10/6 11/6 12/6 13/6 14/6 15/6 16/6 17/6
Day 0 Jun 7, 2017 (Wed)
11:30-16:00 Arrival of Participants

Accommodation Check-in, grouping

 Lobby of Lee Quo Wei Hall, SHHO college
Day 1 Jun 8, 2017 (THU) YIA LT8
AM 9:00-9:15 Registration
9:15-9:30 Opening Remark Prof. Hon-Ming LAM,
Director of Center for Soybean Research of the Partner State Key Lab of Agrobiotechnology
9:30-10:15 Mini Lecture: Climate Modeling and Agriculture Prof. Amos TAI, CUHK
10:15-11:00 Mini Lecture: Application of Computer Optimization in Agriculture Prof. LEE Jimmy, CUHK
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-11:50 Welcoming Note of Research Summit

Photo taking
  • Officiated by Prof. Fanny CHEUNG,Pro-Vice Chancellor of CUHK
  • Hosted by: Prof. Hon-Ming LAM
11:50-12:35 Mini Lecture: Phytohormone Signaling Prof. HE Junxian, CUHK
12:35-14:00 Lunch
PM 14:00-14:45 Bursary office and banking service; Poster set-up
14:45-15:45 Visit to Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change
(YIA 8/F)		 Led by Prof. Amos TAI
15:45-17:00 Talk by Institute of Future Cities
(YIA LT9)		 Led by Prof. Amos TAI
18:30-21:00 Icebreaking Dinner
(Si Yuen Awmenities Centre, United College)		 Modulators: Prof. Ndiko LUDIDI, Dr. Brett FERGUSON and Dr. Nacira MUNOZ
Day 2 Jun 9, 2017 (FRI) YIA 8
AM 8:45-9:30 Poster session A (Group 1-3) YIA 2/F Oval Area
9:30-10:15 Mini Lecture: Epigenetics studies Prof. ZHONG Silin, CUHK
10:15-11:00 Mini Lecture: Bioinformatics on Legume study Prof. CHAN Ting-Fung, CUHK
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Mini Lecture: Genome-scale metabolic modeling and its application Dr. Siu Hung Joshua Chan, Pennsylvania State University
12:15-13:00 Mini Lecture: Proteomics on Legume study Prof. NGAI Sai-Ming, CUHK
13:00-14:15 Lunch
PM 14:15-17:30 Visit to Science Park (TBC) Led by Prof. Sai-Ming NGAI
Day 3 Jun 10, 2017 (SAT) Group discussion YIA 4/F
Day 4 Jun 11, 2017 (SUN) Buffer to group discussion and local exploration
Day 5 Jun 12, 2017 (Mon) YIA LT8
AM 8:45-9:30 Poster session B (Group 4-6) YIA 2/F Oval Area
9:30-10:15 Mini Lecture: Soil Science and Agriculture Prof. Derrick LAI, CUHK
10:15-11:00 Mini Lecture: Molecular Genetics of Nodulation Dr. Brett FERGUSON, University of Queensland
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Mini Lecture: Biological nitrogen fixation in soybean, state of art of the physiology and genetics behind. But, what do we know about other grain legumes? Dr. Nacira Munoz, INTA
12:15-13:00 Mini Lecture: Organic Agriculture in Hong Kong Prof. Kwai-Cheong CHAU, CUHK
13:00-14:15 Lunch
PM 14:15-17:30 Visit to Hong Kong organic Farmland Led by Prof. Kwai-Cheong CHAU
Day 6 Jun 13, 2017 (TUE) Symposium day 1
 YIA LT3
AM 8:30-8:50 Registration
8:50-9:20 Opening Ceremony

  • Opening remarks: Prof. Hon-Ming Lam
  • Welcoming Note: Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Photo taking
  • MC: Prof. Ting-Fung Chan
9:20-10:50 Session Chair:
Prof. Hon-Ming Lam

9:20-9:50

 Keynote speech 1: Prof. Junyi Gai
Director, Chinese National Center for Soybean Improvement, Nanjing Agricultural University, ChinaTalk title: Genetic Differentiation Among Geographic Populations of the World Soybean

9:50-10:20

 Keynote speech 2: Prof. Christine H Foyer
Professor, Plant Science, University of Leeds, United KingdomTalk title: Enhancing Chilling tolerance in legumes

10:20-10:50

 Keynote speech 3: Dr. Brett Ferguson
(Representative of Prof. Peter Gresshoff)
(Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader, a member of the Centre for Integrative Legume Research (CILR) in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences (SAFS) at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia)Talk title: Molecular genetic and molecular physiology insights into nodulation and impacts of nitrogen fixation in soybean and the bioenergy-source legume tree Pongamia pinnata
10:50-11:20 Break
11:20-13:00 Talk session on Special Issues in Developing Countries Session Chair:
Prof. Ting-Fung Chan

11:20-11:40

 Prof. Vara Prasad
Director of Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab, Kansas State University, USATalk title: Impact of High-Temperature Stress on Pulses and Legumes

11:40-12:00

 Prof. Ndiko Ludidi
Head, Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Talk title: Legume Crop Research and Production in South Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

12:00-12:20

 Prof. Linhai Wu
Chief expert, Food Safety Research Base in Jiangsu Province, Jiangnan University and Professor, School of Business, Jiangnan University, China
Talk title: On China’s genetically modified food safety problems in reference with the network public opinion

12:20-12:40

 Dr. Nacira Muñoz
Researcher, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), and Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology at The National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Talk title: Grain legumes production in Argentina: contexts and current situations

12:40-13:00

 Prof. Jianhua Wang
Vice President (Vice Professor), Food Safety Research Base in Jiangsu Province and Associate Professor, School of Business, Jiangnan University, China
Talk title: The research on Influence factors of Chinese soybean import based on Gravity Model

13:00-14:15

 Lunch
PM 14:15-16:15 Talks session on Biotechnology, Genomics, Physiology Session Chair: Prof. Sai-Ming Ngai

14:15-14:35

 Prof. Yong-Qiang An
Research Molecular Biologist, Agricultural Research Services, United States Department of Agriculture, USA
Talk title: Functional genomics and systems biology of soybean seed and genetic diversity

14:35-14:55

 Prof. Ting-Fung Chan
Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
Talk title: Genome Analysis by Optical Mapping

14:55-15:15

 Prof. Eastwood Leung
Director, The Mass Spectrometry (MS) Proteomics Core, Baylor College of Medicine, USATalk title: Breakthrough in Proteomics Technology: Towards Proteomics Deep Sequencing

15:15-15:35

 Prof. Wallace Lim
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
Talk title: Chloroplasts need hardworking mitochondria to boost their productivity

15:35-15:55

 Prof. Kam-Bo Wong
Director, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: How Structural Biology Helps Solving the Problems of Plant Biologists?

15:55-16:15

 Prof. Yanming Zhu
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Talk title: High Throughput Mining of Wild Soybean Saline-Alkaline and Cold Resistant Genes and Transgenic Breeding		  

 
16:15-16:45 Break
16:45-18:05 Talks session Economy, Marketing, Industry, and Society Session Chair: Prof. Amos Tai

16:45-17:05

 Dr. Joanna Chen
Group Senior Director, R&D & Quality of Vitasoy International Holdings Limited
HKSAR, China
Talk title: A Global Business from Beans

17:05-17:25

 Prof. Sven Anders
Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
Talk title: The Economics of Global Pulse Trade – Between Sustainability and Development

17:25-17:45

 Dr. Michiel van Eijk
Chief Scientific Officer, KeyGene, Netherlands
Talk title: Expediting Crop Innovation in a Biotechnology Company

17:45-18:05

 Prof. May Chu
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Factors Impacting on Importation: Evidence from China’s Soybean based on Gravity Model Analysis
18:30-20:30 Dinner (Interaction dinner)
Yun Chi Hsien New Asia College		 MC: Cherry Lee
Day 7 Jun 14, 2017 (Wed) Symposium day 2 YIA LT3
AM 9:00-10:50 Session Chair:
Prof. Junyi Gai

9:00-9:30

 Keynote speech 4: Prof. Scott Jackson
Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, USATalk title: Sources of genetic variation in cultivated and wild soybean

9:30-10:00

 Keynote speech 5: Prof. Rajeev Varshney
Research Program Director and Director, Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), IndiaTalk title: Accelerating genetic gains in legume breeding programs

10:00-10:30

 Keynote speech 6: Prof. Henry Nguyen
Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, USATalk title: Natural variation and genetic analysis of root architecture traits in soybean

10:30-10:50

 Prof. Sachiko Isobe
Lab Head, Laboratory of Pant Genomics and Genetics, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, JapanTalk title: Model, Food and Feed: Genome analysis in legumes for molecular breeding
10:50-11:20 Break
11:20-13:00 Talks session on Biotechnology, Genomics, Physiology Session Chair: Prof. Ho-Lam Jerome Hui

11:20-11:40

 Dr. Mark A. Chapman
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Talk title: Underutilised Legumes for Climate Change Resilience

11:40-12:00

 Prof. Hong Liao
Professor and Director, Root Biology Center, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, ChinaTalk title: Getting to the Root of Successful Engineering for soybean nutrient efficiency in Agricultural Soils

12:20-12:40

 Prof. Om Parkash
Associate Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USATalk title: Glutathione Homeostasis for Enhanced Tolerance to Multiple Abiotic Stresses and Improved Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops

12:20-12:40

 Prof. Fanjiang Kong
Professor, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ChinaTalk title: Diversification and adaptation of soybean into tropics

12:40-13:00

 Dr. Michael Considine
Senior Research Fellow, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, AustraliaTalk Title: Influence of hypoxia on nitrogen fixation and metabolism
13:00-14:20 Lunch
PM

14:20-15:20

 Talks session on Biotechnology, Genomics, Physiology Session Chair: Prof. Gyuhwa Chung

14:20-14:40

 Prof. Dong Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USATalk title: Mechanisms of Intracellular Association Between Legumes and Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

14:40-15:00

 Prof. Haiwei Luo
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Environmental Microbial Evolution and Genomics Research at CUHK

15:00-15:20

 Prof. Ho-Lam Jerome Hui
Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Hormonal Regulation by MicroRNAs in Arthropods
15:20-15:50 Break
15:50-17:30 Talks session on Soil, Management, and Modeling Session Chair: Prof. Wallace Lim

15:50-16:10

 Dr. Olivier Crespo
Research Officer, Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTalk title: Benefits and Limitations of Using Crop Models to Simulate Legumes/ Crops Under Future Climate

16:10-16:30

 Dr. Silvina Vargas-Gil
Investigator, Institute of Plant Pathology, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), ArgentinaTalk title: The Soil: Key Component in Crop Management

16:30-16:50

 Prof. Amos Tai
Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security under the Threats from Climate Change and Air Pollution

16:50-17:10

 Prof. Chi-Yung Francis Tam
Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Modelling the Soil Moisture-Climate Interactions over the Loess Plateau, China

17:10-17:30

 Prof. Yuk-Fo Derrick Lai
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, ChinaTalk title: Effects of Management Practices on Crop Productivity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Fields
18:30-21:30 Dinner (Mentoring dinner)
Day 8 Jun 15, 2017 (THU) YIA LT3
AM 9:00-11:00 THE YOUNG SCHOLAR COMPETITION

(Sponsored by the Vitasoy International Holdings Limited)

9:00-10:00

 Group Presentation by Group 1-3

10:00-11:00

 Group Presentation by Group 4-6
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 KEYNOTE SPEECHES Session Chair: Prof. Scott Jackson

11:30-12:00

 Enhancing Chilling Tolerance in Legumes
Prof. Christine Foyer, University of Leeds, UK

12:00-12:30

 Exploring the Wild Soybean Genome
Prof. Hon-Ming Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12:30-13:00 Award Ceremony for The Young Scholar Competition MC: Lucia Liu
13:30-14:15 Lunch
PM 14:15-16:00 Collaboration discussion Part I Chair: Prof. Lam Hon-Ming

 

14:15-16: 00
  1. Special Issue on PCE and Joint Reviews
    Discussion Leader: Prof. Christine Foyer
  2. Legume Root Genetics
    Discussion Leaders: Prof. Hon-Ming Lam and Prof. Henry Nguyen
  3. International Legume Genomic Research
    Discussion Leaders: Prof. Henry Nguyen and Prof. Junyi Gai
  4. International Central Portal
    Discussion Leaders: Prof. Ting-Fung Chan and Dr. Trupti Joshi
  5. Introduction to Wild Soybean Collections in Korea
    Discussion Leaders: Prof. Gyu Hwa Chung
  

 

 

 

 
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:45 Collaboration discussion Part II Chair: Prof. Lam Hon-Ming

16:30-17:45
  1. South-Cone Project on Soybean and Wheat
    Discussion Leader: Dr. Fernanda Gonzalez and Dr. Marcelo Labarta
  2. Genomic Project in Japan
    Discussion Leader: Dr. Sachiko Isobe
  3. Legume and Soil Microbes
    Discussion Leader: Prof. Haiwei Luo, Dr. Silvina Vargas-Gil
  4. Other Initiatives
  5. Short Summary (Action to be Taken)Prof. Hon-Ming Lam, Prof. Christine Foyer, Prof. Henry Nguyen

 
17:45-18:15 Closing Ceremony of Symposium and Research Summit MC: Hon-Ming Lam
18:30-22:30 Symposium Dinner Tsim Sha Tsui, The One 12/F
Day 9 Jun 16, 2017 (Fri)
Whole day Eco-Cultural Tour Sai Kung
Day 10 Jun 17, 2017 (Sat)
Whole day Departure

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