The Forum Program 
updated on Oct. 10

Dutch-Chinese Life Science Forum

Organized by the Chinese Network of Life-Sciences in Netherlands (CNLN)
Location: Lecture Hall C6, Educational Building, Dreijenplein 4 (building 316), Wageningen University, The Netherlands (see map). 

10:00  Registration and Coffee
10:30 Opening and Introduction
Dr. Chun-Ming Liu, Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Plant Research International, Wageningen
10:40 Welcome Remark 
Prof. Bert Speelman, Rector Magnificus, Wageningen University
10:50 Opening Speech
H.E. Dr. Xue Hanqin, The Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Session 1 Current Situation and Future Prospective in Life Science Research (Chaired by Dr. Yi Liao)
11:05 Biotechnology research in China
Professor Xu Zhi-hong, President, Peking University, Beijing, China
11:25  State-of-the-art plant science research in the Netherlands
Professor Evert Jacobsen, Research Director, Wageningen Plant Sciences, Wageningen, NL
12:45 Funding possibilities for Dutch-China collaborations from KNAW
Dr. Marisa Bantjes, Acting Head of the Department of International Co-operation and Quality Assessment, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) 
12:05  Group photo and lunch
Session 2: Plant Biotechnology and Environmental Sciences (Chaired by Dr. Yang Zhu)
13:00 Enhanced protein production in higher plants by N-terminal fusions
Professor Rong-Xiang Fang, Director, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
13:20 Molecular mechanism of iron uptake and metabolism in tomato
Professor Hong-qing Ling, Institute of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
13:40 Current European Initiatives on Global Monitoring of Environment and Security
Dr. Bob Su, Senior Scientist, Alterra, Wageningen
14:00 Molecular genetics and biotechnology of leaf senescence
Hai-chun Jing, PhD candidate
Molecular Biology of Plants, University of Groningen
14:20 Digging out the gold: an Arabidopsis root's tale
Jian Xu, PhD candidate, Plant Molecular Biology, Utrecht University
14:40 Towards durable resistance against plant-parasitic nematodes
Dr. Ling Qin, Plant Nematology, University of Wageningen 
15:00 Coffee break
Session 3: Medical Sciences and Drug Discovery (Chaired by Dr. Ka Wan Li)
15:30 Proteomics analysis of rat brain postsynaptic density: implications of the diverse functional protein groups for the integration of synaptic physiology
Dr. Ka Wan Li, Assistant Professor, Research Institute Neurosciences, Vrije Universiteit
15:50 From phage display to drug discovery
Haixiang Yu, PhD candidate, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University
16:10 Application of simulated moving bed chromatography in drug development
Tony Zhou, PhD candidate, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
16:30 Over-expression of heterologous protein in yeast
Dr. Michael Huang 
Fungal Genomics Group, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University
16:50 Nanobiotechnology and its applications on therapeutics and diagnostics
Xiaoqin Wang, PhD candidate
Biomade Technology Foundation, Groningen
17:10 Molecular Chaperones Hsp90 and Cdc37p are involved in osmotic stress response in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Xiaoxian Yang, PhD candidate
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
17:30 Conclusion remark
Sanwen Huang, Secretary General of the Forum Organizing Committee and the Chairman of CASSW
17:40 Drinks, provided by WUR
19:00  Dinner at Asia Plaza 
Note for the dinner: A subsidized Chinese buffet dinner will be served at Asia Plaza (see map).  Each registered participant will pay 10 EURO for the dinner (with one drink included).  Dinner tickets will be purchased at the reception desk during registration.  Pre-registration is needed to ensure seats available.

Note to speakers: 1) Since the program is quite tight, we will have to be very strict on time.  You may not allow to finish you talk if the time is up; 2) Please save your presentation to a CD (PC format only) if you want to use the beamer.

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