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Program for the 2nd International Symposium of Integrative Zoology December 8-10, Beijing, China Organized by: International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) Sponsored by: Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Zoology (IOZ), CAS. Plenary sessions (Meeting room: B105, mornings of 8, 9, 10 Oct.) Session 1. Micro-Biology Chairs: Edwin Cooper and Gerd Technau (Meeting room: D122, afternoon of 8 Dec.) Session 2. Integrative Approach and Methodology Chairs: Rosa Maria Polymeni and Zhigang Jiang (Meeting room: D119, afternoon of 8 Dec.) Session 3: Protected Area Action Plan in the East Asia Region Chairs: John MacKinnon and Yan Xie (Meeting room: B517, afternoon of 8 Dec.) Session 4. Role of ISZS in linking zoological societies cross the world Chairs: John Buckeridge and Zhibin Zhang (Meeting room: C101, afternoon of 8 Dec.) Session 5: Animal Ecology Chairs: Badamdorj Bayartogtokh and Dehua Wang (Meeting room: B517, afternoon of 9 Dec.) Session 6. Biodiversity and Conservation Chairs: Jaye Allan and Chong Kim Wong (Meeting room: D119, afternoon of 9 Dec.) Session 7. Evolution and biodiversity Chairs: W.E.G. Müller and Guang Yang (Meeting room: D122, afternoon of 9 Dec.) Session 8. Behavior and Reproductive Chairs: Vera Voznessenskaya and Yanling Wang (Meeting room: C101, afternoon of 9 Dec.) Banquet: (Baifu Xiangweilou Restaurant, 18:30 8th Dec.) with Acrobatics, Chinese Wushu, Folk song, Dancing and Sichuan opera: Face off and face on Posters will be presented during the whole Symposium and presenters will on site to explain during 13:00-14:00 and 18:00-18:30. Dec. 8, 2007 Morning (Meeting room: B105) 8:30- 9:30: Opening session, Chairs: Dexing Zhang and Zhibin Zhang Three invited speeches (10 minutes each) Introduction to International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) - John Buckeridge (10 minutes) Introduction to the journal of Integrative Zoology (IZ) - Zhibin Zhang (10 minutes) Introduction to 20th International Congress of Zoological Sciences (ICZ) - Jean- Marc Jallon (10 minutes) 9:30-10:10 Group photo and tea break (40 minutes) 10:10- 12:10: Plenary session (Each 40 minutes including questions) 10:10-10:50 Comparative Immunology: From ASZ to ISZS, An International View - Edwin Cooper (USA) 10:50-11:30 Molecular Biology of Social Interactions - Yi Rao (China) 11:30-12:10 Species richness and adaptive capacity in animal communities – John MacKinnon (UK) Afternoon 14:00 – 18:00, 8th 4 symposium sessions on different subjects, 8-10 presentations each session (20 minutes each, including questions) Session 1. Organelles, Development and Environment (Meeting room: D122) Chairs: Edwin Cooper and Gerd Technau 1. Mitochondrial sequence data reveals the phylogeny of the Asian Helice group (Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) - Hongying Sun (China) 2. Oogenesis in mice, and somatic cell cloning - Eimei Sato (Japan) 3. Biosilica: the impact and value of sponge biology, molecular biology and chemistry for biotechnology - Xiaohong Wang (Beijing) and W.E.G. Müller (Germany). 4. Segmental patterning of the drosophila central nervous system - Gerd Technau (Germany) 5. The role of red spherule Coelomocytes in the wound healing process of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus. - Lisanne D’Andrea-Winslow (USA) Tea break (20 minutes) 6. Effects of cadmium on glutathione synthesis in the hepatopancreas of freshwater crab, Sinopotamon yangtsekiense - Lan Wang (China) 7. RAPD characterization of Pseudomonas aeuriginosa isolated from pesticides stressed soil - Pooja Pandey (India) 8. Toxicology of organic and inorganic contaminants on Amphibian tadpoles - Yingmei Zhang (China) 9. Enantio selectivity in endocrine disruption of Synthetic Pyrethroids - Meirong Zhao (China) Session 2. Integrative Approach and Methodology (Meeting room: D119) Chairs: Rosa Maria Polymeni and Zhigang Jiang 1. Genes, individuals, societies: integrated approaches to understanding insect societies - Juergen Heinze (Germany) 2. What did we learn from the introduction and rewilding of Père David’s deer in China? An case study of Integrative Conservation Biology - Zhigang Jiang (China) 3. Integrative Physiology of plateau pikas and root voles from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau - Dehua Wang (China) 4. Current situation and future trends of the zoological investigations in Mongolia - Badamdorj Bayartogtokh (Mongolia) Tea break (20 minutes) 5. Presence-absence modeling as an inexpensive and effective tool to survey mammals in mountainous areas - Igor Khorozyan (Armenia) 6. Transformation and democratization of zoological taxonomy in the cyber era - Zhiqiang Zhang (New Zealand) 7. Need of integrative approach to address the zoological issues associated with natural resource conservation and management under the challenges of changing climate in Bangladesh - Bidhan Das (Bangladesh) 8. Tissue-specific cadmium and metallothionein levels in freshwater crab sinopotamon henanense during acute exposure to waterborne cadmium - Wenli Ma (China) Session 3: Protected Area Action Plan in the East Asia Region (Meeting room: B517) Chairs: John MacKinnon and Yan Xie 1. Introduction of the draft Protected Area Action Plan in the East Asia Region 2. Open discussion Session 4: Role of ISZS in linking zoological societies cross the world (Meeting room: C101) Chairs: John Buckeridge and Zhibin Zhang 1. Presentations from representatives of national zoological societies or organizations (10- 15 minutes each) 2. Open discussion: Promotion of Integrative Zoology through ISZS and IZ, and ICZ. 18:30 Banquet (Baifu Xiangweilou Restaurant) Program: 1. Dancing: bird of paradise 2. Folk song of Tibet 3. Acrobatics by contortionist 4. Sichuan opera: Face off and face on 5. Chinese martial art (Wushu) 6. Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance Dec. 9, 2007 Morning 8:30-12:00 Plenary session (Meeting room: B105) Chairs: Jean-Marc Jallon and Michael Schmitt 8:30- 9:05 Conserving Wildlife In and Around Protected Areas: Challenges in Park-People Relationships - Jeffrey A. McNeely (IUCN, Switzerland) 9:05-9:40 Coelurosaurian phylogeny revisited: recovering phylogenetic signals from subtle morphological variations -Xing Xu (China) 9:40- 10:15 The rationale for inculcating Ethical Awareness into the Biological Sciences - John Buckeridge (Australia) 10:15-10:50 UV vision and reflectance in sexual selection of jumping spiders- Daiqin Li (Singapore) 10:50-11:00 Tea break (10 minutes) 11:00-11:25 Aristotle´s system on living things: art imitates nature - Rosa Maria Polymeni (Greece) 11:25-11:45 Art imitates nature (Aristotle, On Nature 194a.21): Plants - Sophia Rhizopoulou (Greece) 11:45-12:20 Carl Linnaeus - systematist between Aristotle and Willi Hennig - Michael Schmitt (Germany) Afternoon 13:30-18:00 4 symposium sessions. Each talk 20 minutes including questions Session 5. Animal Ecology (Meeting room: B517) Chairs: Badamdorj Bayartogtokh and Dehua Wang 1. Biology and ecology of Pallas cats in Mongolia - Bariushaa Munkhtsog (Mongolia) 2. Evaluation of marine algal fatty acids Supplement in broodstock diets of Macrobrachium rosenbergii - Balamurugan Paramaraj (India) 3. Diet and time budgets of the Assamese Macaque (Macaca assamensis) in the Nonggnag Nature Reserve, China - Qihai Zhou (China) 4. The research on the habitat requirement of the Mongolia gazelle around Dalai Lake - Bingwan Liu (China) 5. Biology and ecology of Lymantria dispar L - Baigal-Amar Tuulaikhuu (Mongolia) Tea break (20 minutes) 6. Rodent species diversity and abundance in modified landscapes: consequences in agriculture and public health in Africa – the case of Tanzania - Rhodes Makundi (Tanzania) 7. Land management practices influence on breeding and abundance of Mastomys natalensis - Apia W. Massawe (Tanzania) 8. Testing the high tannin hypothesis with scatter- hoarding rodents experimental and field evidence - Zhishu Xiao (China) 9. Distribution pattern and food relationships among five carnivore species at Saihanwula Nature Reserve - Weidong Bao (China) 10. Global potential distribution modeling of the invasive species, the Long-legged ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) under climate change - Youhua Chen (China) Session 6. Biodiversity and Conservation (Meeting room: D119) Chairs: Jaye Allan and Chong Kim Wong 1. Endemic endangered species distribution scinerio - B.M. Arora (India) 2. Diversity and conservation of fishes and amphibians of Iran - Hamid Reza Esmaeili (Iran) 3. Spatial and seasonal variations in chaetognath assemblages in two subtropical marine inlets with different hydrographical characteristics - Chong Kim Wong (Hong Kong, China) 4. Saola and new mammalian species of Southeast Asia: biological and conservation status - Bui Xuan Nguyen (Vietnam) 5. Ex Situ Behavioural Conservation-An essential step in the long term strategy to save endangered species - Carin Harrington and Liu Her (Hong Kong, China) 6. Assessment of Guangdong Huidong sea turtle nesting habitat and conservation in China - Wei Li (China) Tea break (20 minutes) 7. Population of red deer in Tarim, Sinkiang -Mahamuti Halike (China) 8. A view on Chinese zoos - Jaye Allan (China) 9. An essential step in the long term strategy to save endangered species - Carin Harrington and Liu Her (Hong Kong, China) 10. The action for the wildlife conservation and practical problems in the nomadic area, Tibet - Migmar Wangdwei (China) 11. Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus ussuricus) Restoration Project - Bae-Keun Lee (Republic of Korean) Session 7. Evolution and biodiversity (Meeting room: D122) Chairs: W.E.G. Müller and Guang Yang 1. Early evolution of Metazoa and the significance of the Porifera - W.E.G. Müller (Germany), Xiaohong Wang (China), Jinhe Li (China) 2. Origin, evolution and phylogeography of Phrynocephalus vlangalii on north Tibetan (Qinghai) Plateau - Naifa Liu (China) 3. High similarity at three MHC loci between baiji and finless porpoise: trans-species or convergent evolution - Guang Yang (China) 4. Virtual experiments permit manipulations in zoology not possible palpably: using marine snails to examine the evolution of co-operative animal behaviour - Mark Davies (UK) 5. Origin and diversity of dwarf hamsters (genus Phodopus) - Feoktistova Natalia (Russia) Tea break (20 minutes) 6. Ectoparasites of the Nile rat Arvicanthis niloticus (Desmarest, 1822) Lesson, 1842 (Mammalia, Muridae) in some rural and rrban regions of Sudan - Dina Mustafa Fagir (Sudan) 7. The specific biodiversity of jumping spiders from Mountains Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China - Xianjin Peng (China) 8. Taxonomic status of three forms of hamster group Cricetulus barabensis sensu lato by philogenetic, geographical and hybridization analysis - Alexei Surov (Russia) 9. 10. Phylogeny and conservation of Ranidae in China - Jianping Jiang (China) Morphological adaptation of acoustic organs in anurans to Tibetan Plateau uplifting - Naifa Liu (China) Session 8. Behavior and Reproduction (Meeting room: C101) Chairs: Vera Voznessenskaya and Yanling Wang 1. Effects of TCDD on reproductive and immune function and antagonistic action of vitamin E in mice - Xianqing Zhou (China) 2. Clinical anatomy of reproductive system and breeding biology of Indian deer and antelopes - B.M. Arora (India) 3. Reproductive control effect of a synthetic compound (EP-1) on plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) in Tibet Plateau - Yanling Wang (China) 4. Impact of male takeover on intra-unit sexual interactions and subsequent inter-birth interval in wild Rhinopithecus roxellana - Dapeng Zhao (China) 5. Aggressive behavior pattern of root voles, Microtus oeconomus, under the effect of food supply and predation - Haiyan Nie (China) Tea break (20 minutes) 6. The combined role of the main olfactory and vomeronasal systems in social communication in rodents - Vera Voznessenskaya (Russia) 7. Maternal social stress affects offspring humoral immunocompetence in root voles under field experimental conditions - Yan Wu (China) 8. Potential of Beiao as a novel male antifertility agent of plant origin (Tripterygium wilfordii) in house rat, Rattus rattus - Neena Singla (India) 9. Bull bioactivities in response towards buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) estrus-specific synthetic compounds - Rajanarayanan Swamynathan (India) 10 Dec. Morning: closure of Meeting (Meeting room: B105) 8:30-11:10 Report of 8 sessions (20 minutes each, including questions) 11:10-11:20 Tea break (10 minutes) 11:20-11:40 Ceremony of student prize, best poster, Afternoon: 14:00- 17:30: ISZS committee meeting (ISZS committee members only, A501) Visit Institute of Zoology, National Animal Exhibition Hall and surrounding Olympic facilities Two choices of visit (RMB 120): 1. Forbidden City 2. China Ethnic Culture Park Poster Presentation: 1. Endemic fish of Iran with respected to description of some endanger species - Azad Teimory (Iran) 2. Amphibian of Iran with respected to endemic species - Mehregan Ebrahimi (Iran) 3. Poster by Haiyan Nie (China) 4. Poster by Zhengkun Wang (China) 5. Perspectives of animals reproduction investigation - Tatyana F.Vasilenko (Russia) Note: 1. Lunch time is 12:30. Free choices with lunch tickets 2. Dinner time is 18:30. Free choice with diner ticket on 7th, 9th and 10th Dec.