PLENARY SESSION SPEAKERS

Yuan-Tsong Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Yoshihide Hayashizaki (RIKEN, Japan)
Edison Tak-Bun Liu (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Mu-Ming Poo (UC Berkeley, USA)
Peter Sarnow (Stanford University, USA)

SCIENTIFIC SECTIONS

1. Systems Biology

Coordinator:
Ming Ta Hsu (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Chia Lin Wei (Genome Technology & Biology, Singapore)

Piero Carninci (RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan)
Ruan Yijun (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Sean Grimmond (Univ Queensland, Australia)
Sun Young Rha (Yonsei Univ College of Medicind, Korea)
Ming-Ta Hsu (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Chia Lin Wei (Genome Technology & Biology, Singapore)

2. RNA biology and Gene regulation

Coordinator:
Woan-Yuh Tarn (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Haruhiko Siomi (Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan)

Haruhiko Siomi (Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan)
Mikiko C Siomi (Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan)
Dong-Yan Jin (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Sung Key Jang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Woan-Yuh Tarn (IBMS, Acdemia Sincia, Taiwan)
Soo-Chen Cheng (IMB, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

3. Host-microbes interactions

Coordinator:
Ching-Len Liao (National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan)
Yuen Kwok Yung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Yu-Sun Chang (Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chang-Gung University, Taiwan)
Jeak L Ding (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
George Fu Gao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Ching-Len Liao (National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan)
Kunitada Shimotohno (University, Kyoto, Japan)
Yuen Kwok Yung (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

4. Biotechnology

Coordinator:
Yu-Chan Chao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Nadhipuram V. Bhagavan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)

Joel MacKay (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Samuel Sai-ming Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pattamaporn Kittayapong (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Garth Cooper (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Yau-Heiu Hsu (Graduate institute of Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
Nadhipuram V. Bhagavan (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
Yu-Chan Chao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

5.  Cell signaling and Developments:

Coordinator:
Ruey-Hwa Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Anming Meng (Tsinghua University, China)                                        

Ruey-Hwa Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Chin Ha Chung (Seoul National University, Korea)
Wanjin Hong (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore)
Zhen-Ge Luo (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Anming Meng (Tsinghua University, China)
Yi-Chun Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

6. Neural science

Coordinator:
Terry B.J Kuo (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)

Bill Chia (Temasek Life Sci. Lab., Singapore)
Irene Han-Juo Cheng (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Nancy Yuk-Yu Ip (HKUST, Hong Kong)
Ann-Shyn Chiang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Chou Po Hung (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)



EDUCATION PROGRAM

1. Bioinformatics and systems approaches for disease study

Chun-Houh Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ueng-Cheng Yang (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)


2. Women in Science

Bahiyah dato' Hj. Abdul Hamid (Head, Center for Gender Research, Faculty of Social Science & Humanities, Univ. of Kebangsaan, Malaysia)
Susan Hamilton (University of Queensland, Australia)
Wati Hermawat (UNESCO project director, Indonesia)
Neelam Kumar (National Institute of Science in India, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), India)
Zxy-Yann Jane Lu (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Zhang Meifang (Women in science & technology, Lecturer, Peijing Technology University, China)
Li-Ling Tsai (Graduate Institute of Gender Education; National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan)