9TH SINO-SINGAPORE
CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGY
11-13
NOVEMBER 2008
YUNNAN
UNIVERSITY
A
10-member delegation from the National University of Singapore
returned recently from the 9th Sino-Singapore Conference
on Biology held in Kunming, Yunnan, China.
The
Singapore delegation was led by Vice-Provost Prof. Lai Choy Heng
and 8 professors from the Department of Biological Sciences,
with 1 delegation secretary. Prof. Lai Choy Heng delivered the
Opening Address, Prof. Paul Matsudaira, Head-Designate of DBS,
delivered the Plenary Lecture and 4 DBS professors gave talks
on Biodiversity, Molecular Biology and Structural Biology.
The
3-day conference was followed by a 2-day networking tour in Lijiang
together with Professors from Chinese Universities.
The
Sino-Singapore Symposium is
a series of conferences co-organized annually by the three universities
(National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University and
Xiamen University of
China) as
part of a trilateral collaborative effort.
The
past eight scientific
conferences on promoting research interactions have been organized
in the National University of Singapore (year 2000), Tsinghua
University (year 2001) and
Xiamen University (year 2002), National University of Singapore
(year 2003), Wuhan University (2004), Fudan university (2005),
Nankai University (2006) and
Singapore (year 2007).
These conferences focused on the recent advances in Life Sciences
that covered many new platform technologies in Proteomics, Structural
Biology, Cells and Molecular Biology. The joint conferences served
as an excellent platform for scientists and students from these
universities for exchange of ideas and closer collaboration in
research and teaching.
This
conference series has been so highly successful in nurturing
an ever-growing network of Chinese universities through these
forums that today the number of participating universities has
been expanded from the initial three founders to twelve participating
universities from China.
This
particular conference in Yunnan 2008 helped NUS establish ties
with Yunnan University which is strong not only in molecular
Biology and Biotechnology but particularly in Biodiversity and
Ecology. The visit to Yunnan provided an opportunity for NUS
members to meet our counterpart scientists and also to engage
students in dialogue and in the promotion of NUS as a university
for further academic pursuits and training.
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