Schedule of workshop

Monday, July 9

House of Scientists (Foyer of the Small Conference Hall)

9:00 – 11:00 Registration and Poster Setup

11.00 Poster viewing, Poster session will be held till 1.30 p.m. July 14.

12.00-12.45 Lunch

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

12:45 – 14:15 Opening ceremony.

Speech of Welcome.

Academician Vladimir Shumny, Director, Institute of Cytology & Genetics SB RAS

13-25 – 14-15 BIONET-INTERNATIONAL – OVERCOMING THE TAXONOMIC IMPEDIMENT TO BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH

Dr. Nick King, Director, BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, Surrey, UK

14:15 – 18.45 Diversity of the fauna

Session Chairs: Prof. Yu. S. Ravkin, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russia and M.G. Sergeev, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

15:55 – 16.25 Coffee break

19-00 Welcome party

Tuesday, July 10

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

9:00 – 13:00 Diversity of the vegetation

Session Chairs: Prof. V. P. Sedelnikov, Dr. E.V. Banaev, Central Siberian Botanic Garden, Novosibirsk, Russia and Dr. M. Chytry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:30 – 18.30 Forest ecosystems

Session Chairs: Prof. E. A. Vaganov, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia and Prof. A.Z. Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

16:00 – 16.30 Coffee break

Wednesday, July 11

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

9:00 – 12:30 Soil ecosystems

Session Chairs: Prof. I. M. Gadzhiev, Dr. S.V. Vasiliev, Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia and Dr. H. Vasander, University of Helsinki, Finland

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 18.30 Water ecosystems

Session Chairs: Prof. A. P. Shevirnogov, Institute of Biophysics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia and Prof. R.D.Gulati, Center of Limnology, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands.

16:30 – 17.00 Coffee break

House of Scientists (Large Conference Hall)

9:00 – 13:30 Human genome diversity

Session Chairs: Prof. N. K. Yankovsky, Human Genome Program, Moscow, Russia and Prof. R. Villems, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia

11:15-11:40 Coffee break

13:30-14:30 Lunch

Thursday, July 12

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

Databases and GIS technologies

9:00 – 12:30 Databases and GIS technologies (morning session)

Session Chairs: Prof. S.E. Dromashko, Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Minsk, Belarus and Dr. N. King, BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, Surrey, UK

11:10-11:40 Coffee break

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30 -16.00 Databases and GIS technologies (afternoon session)

Session Chairs: Prof. A.M. Fedotov, Institute of Computing Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia and Prof. Shukurov E.J. Central Asian Transboundary Project GEF for Biodiversity Conservation in the Western Tien Shan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:30 Round table discussion on development of the international project “Ecological Network (ECONET)”

House of Scientists (Large Conference Hall)

9:00 – 13:30 Human genome diversity

Session Chairs: Prof. N. K. Yankovsky, International Human Genome Program and Dr. M.I. Voevoda, Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

11:05-11:30 Coffee break

13:30-14:30 Lunch

17-30 Large Concert Hall, Novosibirsk Philharmonic

Concert of Novosibirsk Festival Orchestra

Friday, July 13

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

9:00 – 13:30 Genetic bases of biodiversity

Session Chairs: Prof. L.A. Zhivotovsky, Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia and Prof. N.A. Kolchanov, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16-00 Excursions to Central Siberian Botanical Garden

16-00-20-00 Novosibirsk Picture Gallery and bus tour of Novosibirsk.

Saturday, July 14

House of Scientists (Small Conference Hall)

9:00 – 13:30 Evolution of species and ecosystems: theoretical analysis and computer-assisted modeling

Session Chairs: Prof. L.V. Nedorezov, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia and Dr. W. Silvert, Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar, Lisbon, Portugal

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

13:30-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Close of Workshop, Comments of Chairpersons

15-45-18-00 Excursions to Archaeological museum, Institute of archaeology and ethnography and Geological museum, Trofimuk United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy

18-00 Closing ceremony

July 15-19

Altai postworkshop tours

Trip to Altai Mountains

Excursion “Ecosystems of the North Altai”