Programs

Symposium Schedule At-A-Glance

Plenary Speakers

Research Director, CNRS – CIRAD, FRANCE

Visiting Professor, Faculty Veterinary Technology, Kasetsart University, THAILAND

Plenary topic:

The sad news from the Anthropocene: why biodiversity loss matters for Planetary Health

Dr. Kun-Hsien Tsai (蔡坤憲)

Department of Public Health & Institute of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Plenary topic:

The new emerging vector-borne rickettsial diseases in Taiwan

Prof. Tokuma Yanai

Senior Board Member, Asian Society of Conservation Medicine (ASCM)

Department of Veterinary Pathology, Gifu University, JAPAN

Plenary topic:

Establishing an Asian Network for Wildlife Conservation based on “One Health”

Dr. Meriadeg Le Gouil

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, University of Normandy, FRANCE

Plenary topic:

Wildlife coronaviruses macrodiversity & intra-colony microevolution of a Betacoronavirus in western Palearctic

Department of Helminthology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, THAILAND

Plenary topic:

Citizen science to map the newly invasive New Guinea Flatworm and its potential role to carry Angiostrongylus parasite

International Speakers

  • Ohnmar Aung, Project Coordinator, PREDICT-Myanmar, Global Health Program, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (Topic: One Health in Myanmar: USAID PREDICT Project Implementation, collaboration, and findings)
  • Marites Balbas, Chief Operation Officer, Mabuwaya Foundation, Philippines
  • Aaron Irving, Research Fellow, Emerging Infectious Diseases Centre, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore (Topic: Profiling immune activation and inflammatory responses to pathogens across multiple species of bats)
  • Anamika Karnchanabanthoeng, Lecture, Faculty of Veterinary Technology, Kasetsart University, Thailand (Topic: Zoonotic Babesia in rodents on mainland Southeast Asia)
  • Alice Latinne, Research Scientist, EcoHealth Alliance, USA (Topic: Diversity and origin of bat coronaviruses in China)
  • Paisin Lekcharoen, Field Wildlife Epidemiologist, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University, Thailand (Topic: Wildlife diseases at interfaces: a glance from various grounds)
  • Aris Reginaldo, University of the Philippines Baguio, PHILIPPINES. (Topic: Parasite-Sharing among pest and native rats: a case in upland agroforest ecosystems in Luzon Island, Philippines)

Local Speakers

  • Chen-Chih Chen (陳貞志), Institute of Wildlife Conservation, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Topic: Exotic pathogens carried by exotic species: a threat to the endemic species in Taiwan)
  • Hung-Chang Chen (陳宏彰), Division of Zoology, Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute & Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University (Topic: Bat fly diversity and basic-host specificity in Taiwan)
  • Yi-Ning Chen (陳怡寧), Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University (Topic: Emerging disease viruses in the bat populations of Taiwan)
  • Hsi-chi Cheng (鄭錫奇), Division of Zoology, Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute
  • Ting-Wu Chuang (莊定武), Department of Molecular Parasitology and Tropical Diseases, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (Topic: Increased adult Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) abundance in a Dengue transmission hotspot, compared to a coldspot, within Kaohsiung City, Taiwan)
  • Chi-Chien Kuo (郭奇芊), Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University (Topic: Invasive plants facilitated by socioeconomic change shelter disease vectors of scrub typhus)
  • Chuen-Fu Lin (林春福), Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chiayi University (Topic: Zoonotic Bartonella and Leptospira in wild small mammals in central and southern Taiwan)
  • Cheng-Tao Lin (林政道), Department of Biological Resources, National Chiayi University (Topic: Exploring the potential application of iNaturalist in Taiwan—a case study of plant phenology)
  • Te-En Lin (林德恩), Division of Zoology, Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute (Topic: Taiwan Roadkill Observation Network, from opportunity roadkill data at social media to systematic roadkill survey)
  • Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei (裴家騏), Institute of Wildlife Conservation, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (Topic: Conservation Medicine in Taiwan)
  • Ross Jo-Szu Tsai (蔡若詩), Department of Biological Resources, National Chiayi University (Topic: Applications of occupancy modeling on biodiversity monitoring)
  • Wuchun Tu (杜武俊), Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University
  • Bruno A Walther, Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University (Topic: The use of citizen-science data in Taiwan: examples from marine pollution and ornithology)
  • Yi-Ju Yang (楊懿如), Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University (Topic: Monitoring of the Invasive Tree Frog (Polypedates megacephalus) by volunteers in Taiwan)

NGO Forum

Moderator:

    • Joe Chun-Chia Huang (黃俊嘉), Southeast Asian Bat Conservation and Research Unit

Panel speakers:

    • Marites Balbas, Malbuwaya Foundation, Philippines
    • Yi-Fang Huang (黃怡凡), Leopard Cat Association of Taiwan
    • Boripat Siriaroonrat, Zoological Park Organization Thailand
    • Sophia Zhang, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation