World Orchid Conference

Day 1 Programme, 13-Nov-2011

Summary : The day begins with registration formalities followed by opening ceremony further followed by plenary and concluded by scientific sessions

07:30 AM  -  08:30 AM
Registration

09:00 AM  -  09:15 AM
Opening ceremony

09:15 AM  -  10:00 AM
Plenary 1: orchid taxonomy and genetic data
Mark W Chase, The Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens

10:00 AM  -  10:45 AM
Plenary 2 : orchids in a hybrid state
John Elliott, The Orchid Society of South East Asia, Singapore

10:45 AM  -  11:00 AM
Tea break

11:00 AM  -  11:20 AM
Present data on the inventory of the orchid family in eastern indochina
Leonid V. Averyanov, Komarov Botanical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Russia

11:20 AM  -  11:40 AM
Orchids of the pan-himalayas
Jin Xiaohua, Herbarium, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:40 AM  -  12:10 PM
Flora projects as drivers of research on multiple aspects of biodiversity exemplified by the treatment of the orchidaceae for flora of Thailand
Henrik Pedersen, Botanical Garden and Museum, University of Copenhagen

12:00 PM  -  12:20 PM
Biology of the threatened terrestrial orchid genus sirindhornia
Santi Watthana, Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, Thailand

12:20 PM  -  13:20 PM
Lunch

13:20 PM  -  13:40 PM
Past, present and future of Myanmar orchids
Saw Lwin, Myanmar Floriculturist Association

13:40 PM  -  14:00 PM
Vegetative features and architecture for plant identification in relation to phylogeny of continental Asian orchids
Pierre Bonnet, National Institute of Agricultural Research, France

14:00 PM  -  14:20 PM
Pollination trends in cyripedium and paphiopedilum of subfamily cypripedioideae, orchidaceae
Luo Yi-Bo, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Orchid Society of China

14:20 PM  -  14:40 PM
The genus calanthe and its allies in Southeast Asia
Phillip Cribb, Orchid Herbarium

14:40 PM  -  15:00 PM
Phylogeny of subtribe aeridinae what do characters tell us?
Alexander Kocyan, University of Potsdam, Germany

15:00 PM  -  15:15 PM
Tea break

15:15 PM  -  15:35 PM
Pleione - a genus of temperate to warm-temperate mountain regions in continental Southeast Asia
Holger Perner, Huanglong National Park

15:35 PM  -  15:55 PM
A synopsis of the genus rhytionanthos garay, hamer and siegerist
Sathish Kumar, Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute

15:55 PM  -  16:15 PM
Analysis of conservation status and extinction risk of the orchids of Hong Kong
Stephan Gale, Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, Hong Kong

16:15 PM  -  16:35 PM
Ex situ conservation of Thai orchid species
Kanchit Thammasiri, Mahidol University, Thailand

16:35 PM  -  16:55 PM
In vitro propagation of Indian orchids and induction of mycorrhizal associations: possibilities and achievements
Promila Pathak, Panjab University, India

16:55 PM  -  0-1:0-1 AM
End of Day 1

Day 2 Programme, 14-Nov-2011

Summary : The day starts with plenary sessions followed by sessions, further followed by complimentary tours and concluded by discussion

09:00 AM  -  09:45 AM
Plenary 3: Revolutionary light sources for orchid micropropagation and acclimatisation
Michio Tanaka, Kagawa University, Japan

09:45 AM  -  10:15 AM
Molecular cytogenetic studies on the genus paphiopedilum: genome relationships and chromosome identification
Chung Mei-Chu, National Museum of Natural Science; Academia Sinica

10:15 AM  -  10:45 AM
Molecular biology of orchid flowers with emphasis on phalaenopsis
Chen Hong Hwa, Institute of Tropical Plant Sciences and National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

10:45 AM  -  11:00 AM
Tea break

11:00 AM  -  11:20 AM
The orchid-literature database bibliOrchidea
Rudolf Jenny, Swiss Orchid Foundation

11:20 AM  -  11:40 AM
Databasing reichenbach orchid herbarium - problems and solutions
Ernst Vitek, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria

11:40 AM  -  12:00 PM
World orchid iconography
Lucienne de Witte, Botanisches Institut, Swiss Orchid Foundation

12:00 PM  -  12:20 PM
Toward a global taxonomic orchid network
Franco Pupulin, University of Costa Rica, Lankester Botanical Garden

12:20 PM  -  12:40 PM
Delving deeper into orchid data resources integration: advances in software technology
Frank Slaughter JR, The American Orchid Society, United States

12:30 PM  -  13:15 PM
Lunch

13:15 PM  -  14:00 PM
Plenary 4 : application of new technologies to improve orchid varieties
Wong Sek Man, National University of Singapore

14:00 PM  -  15:30 PM
Forum: orchid judging
Peter Furniss, World Orchid Conference Trust

15:30 PM  -  15:45 PM
Tea break

16:00 PM  -  18:00 PM
Complimentary tours to national orchid garden, gardens by the bay

15:45 PM  -  16:05 PM
Asian medicinal orchids
Teoh Eng Soon, The Orchid Society of South East Asia, Singapore

16:05 PM  -  16:25 PM
Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment of illness as empirical science
Hong Hai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

16:25 PM  -  16:45 PM
Medicinal orchids of Nepal and their conservation by in vitro technique
Bijaya Pant, Central Department of Botany, Nepal

16:45 PM  -  17:00 PM
Additional discussion and questions

17:00 PM  -  0-1:0-1 AM
End of day 2

Day 3 Programme, 15-Nov-2011

Summary : The day begins with plenary sessions and further followed by symposium on orchid conservation continued by plenary and concluded by discussion on Himalayan orchid conservation problems and prospect

09:00 AM  -  09:45 AM
Plenary 5 : conservation of wild orchids
Kingsley Dixon, Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Perth; The University of Western Australia

09:45 AM  -  10:05 AM
The current threats to mediterranean orchids the human factor and conservation approaches
Dafni Amots, Haifa University, Israel

10:05 AM  -  10:25 AM
On the status of conservation efforts applied to vanilla, the world most popular orchid
Kenneth Cameron, University of Wisconsin, United States

10:25 AM  -  10:45 AM
Recovery project for three threatened species including the Eastern Australian underground orchid rhizanthella slateri from pacific highway upgrade
Mark Clements, Australian National Herbarium, Australia

10:45 AM  -  11:00 AM
Tea break

11:00 AM  -  11:20 AM
Assessing the diversity and conservation status of corybas, the highly endangered orchid genus in Peninsular Malaysia
Rusea Go, Universiti Putra Malaysia

11:20 AM  -  11:40 AM
Conserving wild orchids in Southwestern China: buffering the impacts of global changes
Hong Liu, Florida International University; Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, United States

11:40 AM  -  12:00 PM
The conservation of slipper orchids using in vitro seed germination
Lee Yung I, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan

12:00 PM  -  12:20 PM
Medicinal orchids of Bangladesh and their conservation: exploitation vs reproductive failure
Mohammed Kamrul Huda, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

12:20 PM  -  13:05 PM
Lunch

13:05 PM  -  13:50 PM
Plenary 6 : orchid pollination biology
Steve Johnson, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

13:50 PM  -  14:10 PM
Conservation, re-introduction and re-discovery of the native orchids of Singapore
Yam Tim Wing, Singapore Botanic Gardens

14:10 PM  -  14:30 PM
Priority species for Indonesian orchid conservation
Irawati, Bogor Botanical Gardens, Indonesia

14:30 PM  -  14:50 PM
Linking orchid conservation and biodiversity
Marilyn HS Light, North America Regional Chair, Orchid Specialist Group, Canada

14:50 PM  -  15:10 PM
Uncovering the trade of wild orchids in Continental Southeast Asia
Jacob Phelps, National University of Singapore

15:20 PM  -  15:35 PM
Tea break

16:00 PM  -  18:00 PM
Complimentary tours to national orchid garden, gardens by the bay

15:35 PM  -  16:05 PM
Forecasting the dynamics of populations some orchids in phytocenoses in central russia
Ekaterina Zheleznaya, State Museum of Biology, Russia

16:05 PM  -  16:35 PM
Himalayan orchid conservation problems and prospect: lesson from Nepal
Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti

16:35 PM  -  17:05 PM
Orchid diversity and conservation in India
Mahammad Khasim Shaik, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

17:05 PM  -  0-1:0-1 AM
End of day 3

Day 4 Programme, 16-Nov-2011

Summary : The last day of the conference begins with plenary followed by individual papers further followed by plenary and concluded by closing ceremony

09:00 AM  -  09:45 AM
Plenary 7 : modern breeding of phalaenopsis orchids
Wen Huei Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

09:45 AM  -  10:15 AM
Cymbidium subgenus jensoa
Jason Fischer, Orchids Ltd, United States

10:15 AM  -  10:45 AM
Mycorrhiza-assisted conservation of vanda coerulea, a critically endangered orchid from India
Simmi Aggarwal, Panjab University, India

10:45 AM  -  11:00 AM
Tea break

11:00 AM  -  11:30 AM
Use of ex-situ orchid collections in conservation research with reference to restrepia
Helen Millner, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

11:30 AM  -  12:00 PM
Modelling spatial patterns of rare orchids for conservation prioritisation in Taiwan
Rebecca CC Hsu, Taiwan Forest Research Institute

12:00 PM  -  12:30 PM
An integrated strategy for ex situ conservation of orchids
Phil Seaton

12:30 PM  -  13:15 PM
Lunch

13:15 PM  -  13:45 PM
Cites who wrote these rules?
Harry Zelenko

13:45 PM  -  14:15 PM
Cities is trade law
Ron McHatton, The American Orchid Society, United States

14:15 PM  -  14:45 PM
The Singapore orchid industry challenges and prospects
Lam-Chan Lee Tiang, Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore

14:45 PM  -  15:30 PM
Plenary 8 : the art and science of orchids
Phillip Cribb, Royal Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom

15:30 PM  -  15:45 PM
Tea break

15:45 PM  -  17:00 PM
Closing ceremony and announcement of 22nd world orchid conference

17:00 PM  -  0-1:0-1 AM
End of conference