Message from the Roundtable and Symposium Chair

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Welcome Message

from the Roundtable and Symposium Chair

It is a great pleasure and an honor for me to welcome distinguished guests, colleagues, friends and our alumnae/alumni of the UGSAS to the 8th IC-GU12 (International Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia Region for the Doctoral Education on the Agricultural Science and Biotechnology) Roundtable and Symposium 2020. It is, however, disappointing that we see you only through a video conference due to COVID-19. I wish I could see all the members of IC-GU12 face to face and renew our old friendship. On the contrary, we can think positively that the video conference allows many colleagues and students to attend without flights and fee. I would like to see so many new attendees whom we have not formerly seen in the past symposiums.

I hope this video conference that connects many countries across the region, such as Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Japan will give us new paradigm of our collaboration and help to share cutting-edge knowledge and technologies with IC-GU12 members and guests.

The following events are scheduled for the period:

1) Roundtable for "IC-GU12" at 12:00 JST (Japanese Standard Time) on 10th November

2) Symposium "Joint Poster Session on Agriculture and Basin Water Environmental Science 2020" co-organized by BWEL at 15:00 JST on 10th November.

In this roundtable meeting, we will report the current situation of COVID-19 infection in each school and discuss about the effective educational methods in PhD programs and the reciprocally beneficial system for our international collaboration under “COVID-19”.

In the symposium of this year, we will focus on the research activity reports by UGSAS (United Graduate School of Agricultural Science) students and BWEL (Rearing Program for Basin Water Environmental Leaders) students. Each poster will be presented on a Web

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Page and invites comments from participants. In addition, each student will give short presentation on the video conference system in his/her assigned time. It is first challenge for us to use the internet systems in the poster session. So, I would like you to join the session actively, encourage the students and share their research results and accomplishments.

Finally, I would like to express my deep gratitude for your participation to the Roundtable and Symposium of IC-GU12 in November 2020.

Ken HIRAMATSU, Ph.D

Dean of the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University

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The 8th IC-GU12 Roundtable 2020

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November 2020

12:00-15:00 Japanese Standard Time Web Conference【ZOOM】

Participants: Liaison teachers of member universities in IC-GU12 Chair: Ken HIRAMATSU, Dean of UGSAS

Topic: Exchange ideas, share information, and the current situation under the COVID-19.

A paper of presentation, about three minutes by each university

Timetable

12:00 Opening Remarks: Prof. Ken HIRAMATSU, Dean of UGSAS Gifu University 12:05 Greetings from Liaison teachers in Gifu and Shizuoka University

12:25 Presentation from IG-GU12 Member Universities 10 out of 20 13:10 Short Break

13:20 Presentation from IG-GU12 Member Universities 10 out of 20 14:05 Short Break

14:15 Discussion, Exchange ideas

Moderator: Prof. Tomio YABE, Vice Dean of UGSAS

14:45 Closing Remarks: Prof. Tohru Mitsunaga, Dean of the faculty of applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University

UGSAS, GU & BWEL Joint Poster Session on Agricultural and Basin Water Environmental Sciences 2020

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November 2020

15:00-18:00 Japanese Standard Time Online Presentation【ZOOM】

Research progress presentation by UGSAS, MEXT and BWEL students

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Parallel session into 3 sessions.

Timetable

15:00 Opening Remarks: Prof. Ken HIRAMATSU, Dean of UGSAS Gifu University 15:05 Program Introduction

15:10 Online Poster Presentation

PartⅠ: Short Oral Introduction (15:10-15:40) PartⅡ: Poster Presentation (15:40-16:40)

16:40 Announcement of the Winners of the Best Presentation Award 17:00 Best Presentation Award Ceremony

17:10 Closing Remarks: Prof. Fusheng Li, Head of the Promotion Office of BWEL

Message from the Editor in Chief of

REVIEWS IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE (RAS) e-journal

Greetings to all the participants of the UGSAS-GU International Symposium of 2020.

I would like to introduce myself. My name is Masateru Senge, and the newly appointed chief-editor of the international journal "Reviews in Agricultural Science" from April, 2020. And emeritus professor Fumiaki Suzuki has also been kindly supporting to edit the submitted papers of the fields related to the chemical and biotechnology as an associate editor.

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There are 50 review papers published in this journal from the 1st (2014) volume to the 7th volumes (2019), and which had been cited 417 times by scientific journal listed in

"ResearchGate" as of October 16th, 2020. Furthermore, there was an announcement that the collaboration between J-STAGE and Inspec (a major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (United King)) was started, and RAS was included in 53 selected magazines from J-STAGE that were listed in Inspec on 14 August 2020. We hope and are confined that our journal contributes greatly towards scientific progress of agricultural fields.

This year, there has been more papers submitted to our journal than usual, and more than twenty articles are expected to be published. We welcome your review contributions to RAS, on any aspects that relate to agricultural themes. Your submissions will certainly receive utmost attention and refinement by our editorial board before acceptance. Please have a look at our website https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ras/-char/ja/ in the J-Stage platform.

Masateru Senge, Ph.D.

Editor in Chief, Reviews in Agricultural Science Oct.16, 2020

IC-GU12

Country / University Name / Title

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Agricultural University

Md. Golam Rabbani Professor

Liaison / Guest Professor

Bangladesh

University of Dhaka

A. H. M. Nurun Nabi Professor

China

Guangxi University

Yu Wenjin Professor / Liaison Yang yanjuan Associate Professor Guest Professor

India Piyush Pandey

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Assam University Professor

India

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Lingaraj Sahoo Professor

Indonesia

Andalas University

Khandra Fahmy Associate Professor Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia IPB University

Irmanida Batubara Professor

Indonesia

Gadjah Mada University

Siti Subandiyah Professor

Indonesia

Sebelas Maret University

Komariah Lecturer

Indonesia

University of Lampung

Afandi

Associate Professor Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Eka Mulya Alamsyah Associate Professor Liaison / Guest Professor

Laos

National University of Laos

Somvilay Chanthalounnavong Liaison

Sithong Thongmanivong Associate Professor

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Guest Professor Philippines

Mariano Marcos State University

Marlowe Aquino Professor

Thailand

Chulalongkorn University

Warinthorn Chavasiri Associate Professor Liaison

Ubonratana Siripatrawan

Associate Professor / Guest Professor Thailand

Kasetsart University

Nantana Srisuk Assistant Professor Liaison / Guest Professor

Thailand

King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Pongphen Jitareerat Associate Professor Liaison

Varit Srilaong Dean / Guest Professor

Vietnam

Hanoi University of Science and Technology

Nguyen Thi Minh Tu Associate Professor Liaison

Lien Ha Tran Guest Professor Vietnam

Thuyloi University

Pham Hong Nga Liaison

Nguyen Canh Thai Guest Professor Japan

Shizuoka University

Tomohiro Sasanami Professor / Vice Dean

Japan

Gifu University

Ken Hiramatsu Professor / Dean

CHAIRMAN of the 8^th IC-GU12 Roundtable

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Kohei Nakano Professor / Vice Dean Tomio Yabe

Professor / Vice Dean

Administrative Office

The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University (UGSAS, GU)

Kouichirou Aoki, Chief Officer Kentaro Imai, Secretary Shigeno Kurimoto, Secretary

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