GENERAL SCHEDULE OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “BIODIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS IN NORTH EURASIA” (BDENE’2000)
August 21—26, 2000, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok (Russia)
August 20 – the day of arriving and registration
(Registration: House of Scientists, Large Hall, 14:00 – 20:00)
August 21
House of Scientists (Large hall)
9:00 – 10:00 Opening ceremony. Speech of welcome of SB RAS Chairman, Academician N. L. Dobretsov; Director of the Institute of Cytology & Genetics SB RAS, Academician V.K. Shumny and a representative of the Novosibirsk Regional Administration
10:00 – 19.30 Section I. “The Basic problems of species and ecosystem evolutions”, Chairmen: Prof. V. K Shumny. (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia) and Prof. W. Schmid (University of Minnesota, USA).
11:20 – 11:50 – Coffee break
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch
9.00 – 19.00 Foyer of Large Hall, House of Scientists
Poster session and computer demonstrations of the following sections:
I. “Basic problems of species and ecosystem evolutions”,
II. “Molecular genetic bases of biodiversity”,
V. “Human genome diversity in North Eurasia: evolution, population, and ecology aspects”,
XI. “Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North Eurasia: Informational Technologies and Modeling”
17.00 – 17.30 – Tea break
August 22
House of Scientists, Large Hall
9.00 – 18.00 Section III. “The Diversity of the flora of North Eurasia”, Chairmen: Prof. I. Yu. Koropachinsky (Central Siberian Botanic Garden, Novosibirsk, Russia) and Prof. T. Elias (National Arboretum, Washington, USA)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch
16.30 – 17.00 – Tea break
9.00-19.00 Foyer of Large Hall, House of Scientists.
Poster session and computer demonstrations of the section
III. “The Diversity of the flora of North Eurasia”
House of Scientists, Small Hall
9.00 – 13.30 Section VI and VIII. “Water ecosystems of North Eurasia” and “Lake Baikal as a natural laboratory for studying species biodiversity and evolution”,
Chairmen: Prof. A. G. Degermendzhi. (Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia), Prof. M. A. Grachev (Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia) and Prof. R.D.Gulati (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre of Limnology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00-18.30 – Continuation of the Section VI and VIII.
“Water ecosystems of North Eurasia” and “Lake Baikal as a natural laboratory for studying species biodiversity and evolution”
16.30-17.00 – Tea break
17.00 – Excursions to Geological and Archeological Museums
17.00 – Excursion to the Central Siberian Botanic Garden
August 23
House of Scientists, Large Hall
9.00 – 18.30 Section IV. “Diversity of the fauna of North Eurasia”, Chairmen: Prof. V. I. Evsikov (Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russia) and Prof. W. Lidicker (University of California, USA)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.40 – 15.10 – Lunch
17.00 – 17.30 – Tea break
9.00-19.00 Foyer of Large Hall, House of Scientists.
Poster session and computer demonstrations of the section
IV. “Diversity of the fauna of North Eurasia”
House of Scientists, Small Hall
9.00 – 13.30 Section X. “Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North-East Asia” (supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Sciences and Technologies and Mongolian Academy of Sciences); Chairmen: Prof. V. M. Korsunov (Institute of General and Experimental Biology SB RAS, Ulanh-Ude), Prof. In Kyu Lee (Seoul National University, Korea), Prof. Sun Tieheng (Institute of Applied Ecology, Shenyan, China) and Prof. G.Erdenejav (Biological Institute, MAS, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00 – 19.00 Section IX. “Forest ecosystems of North Eurasia”; Chairpersons: Prof. E. A. Vaganov A. (Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and Prof. E.D.Schulze (Max Plank Institute of Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany)
16.40 – 17.00 – Tea break
August 24
House of Scientists, Small Hall
9.00 – 13.30 Section II. “Molecular genetic bases of biodiversity”; Chairman: Prof. Yu. P. Altuhov (Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
9.00-13.30 Foyer of Small Hall, House of Scientists.
Poster session and computer demonstrations of the section
X. “Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North-East Asia”
15.30 – Sightseeing tour of Novosibirsk, excursion to the Novosibirsk Picture Gallery
15.30 – Excursion to the Central Siberian Botanic Garden
August 25
House of Scientists, Small Hall
9.00 – 13.30 Section V. “Human genome diversity in North Eurasia: evolution, population, and ecology aspects”; Chairmen: Prof. N. K. Yankovsky (Russian Human Genome Program), Prof. R. I Sukernik (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia), Prof. P.A.Underhill (Stanford University, Stanford, USA)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00 – 18.30 Section VII. “Soil ecosystems of North Eurasia”, Chairmen: Prof. I. M. Gadzhiev (Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry of Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia) and Dr. Liao Liping (Institute of Applied Ecology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shinyang, P.R.China)
16.30 – 17.00 – Tea break
15.30 – Excursions to the Geological and the Archeological Museums
9.00-19.00 Foyer of Small Hall, House of Scientists.
Poster session and computer demonstrations of the following sections:
9.00-13.30 VII. “Soil ecosystems of North Eurasia”,
IX. “Forest ecosystems of North Eurasia”,
15.00-19.00 VI. “Water ecosystems of North Eurasia”,
VIII. “Lake Baikal as a natural laboratory for studying species biodiversity and evolution”,
August 26
House of Scientists, Small Hall
9.00 – 13.30 Section XI. “Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North Eurasia: Informational Technologies and Modeling”; Chairmen: Prof. A. M. Fedotov (Institute of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia) and Dr. A. Kondrashov (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA)
11.00 – 11.30 – Coffee break
13.30 – 14.30 – Lunch
House of Scientists, Large Hall
14.30 – 16.20 Closing Ceremony
16.30 – Session of the Organizing Committee: looking into prospects for international collaboration in nature conservation, the biodiversity and dynamics of ecosystems; adoption of the resolutions.
16.00 – Excursions to the Geological museum and the Archeological museum
From August 27
Post-conference tours
1. Altai tour “Denisova cave”. Round table discussion “Paleoecology and Evolution”
2. Altai tour “ Ecosystems of North Altai”