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 (InternationalConsortium 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 dueto COVID-19. I wish I could see all the members of IC-GU12 face to face and renew ourold 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 somany 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 andJapan will give us new paradigm of our collaboration and help to share cutting-edgeknowledge 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 10thNovember
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 ineach school and discuss about the effective educational methods in PhD programs and thereciprocally 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 Programfor 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 shortpresentation 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 thesession actively, encourage the students and share their research results andaccomplishments.
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 ofAgricultural Science, Gifu University

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The 8th IC-GU12 Roundtable 2020
10th November 2020
12:00-15:00 Japanese Standard TimeWeb Conference【ZOOM】
Participants: Liaison teachers of member universities in IC-GU12Chair: Ken HIRAMATSU, Dean of UGSAS
Topic: Exchange ideas, share information, and the current situation under theCOVID-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 Agriculturaland Basin Water Environmental Sciences 2020
10th 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 ofREVIEWS 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 thesubmitted papers of the fields related to the chemical and biotechnology as an associateeditor.
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There are 50 review papers published in this journal from the 1st (2014) volume to the7th volumes (2019), and which had been cited 417 times by scientific journal listed in"ResearchGate" as of October 16th, 2020. Furthermore, there was an announcementthat the collaboration between J-STAGE and Inspec (a major indexing database ofscientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering andTechnology (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 confinedthat 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 thantwenty articles are expected to be published. We welcome your review contributions toRAS, 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-GU12Country / UniversityName / Title

Bangladesh

Md. Golam Rabbani

Bangladesh Agricultural University

Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Bangladesh

A. H. M. Nurun Nabi

University of Dhaka

Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

ChinaYu Wenjin

Guangxi University

Professor / Liaison
Yang yanjuan
Associate Professor
Guest Professor

India

Piyush Pandey
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Assam University

Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

India

Lingaraj Sahoo

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

Khandra Fahmy

Andalas University

Associate Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

Irmanida Batubara

IPB UniversityProfessor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

Siti Subandiyah

Gadjah Mada UniversityProfessor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Country / University

Name / Title

Indonesia

Komariah

Sebelas Maret University

Lecturer
Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

AfandiUniversity of Lampung

Associate Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Indonesia

Eka Mulya Alamsyah

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Associate Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

Laos

Somvilay Chanthalounnavong

National University of Laos

Liaison
Sithong Thongmanivong
Associate Professor

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Guest Professor
Philippines

Marlowe Aquino

Mariano Marcos State UniversityProfessor
Liaison / Guest Professor

ThailandWarinthorn Chavasiri

Chulalongkorn University

Associate Professor
LiaisonUbonratana Siripatrawan
Associate Professor / Guest Professor

Thailand

Nantana Srisuk

Kasetsart University

Assistant Professor
Liaison / Guest Professor

ThailandPongphen Jitareerat

King Mongkut’s University of Technology

Associate Professor

Thonburi

LiaisonVarit Srilaong
Dean / Guest Professor

Country / University

Name / Title

VietnamNguyen Thi Minh Tu

Hanoi University of Science andAssociate Professor

Technology

LiaisonLien Ha Tran
Guest Professor

VietnamPham Hong Nga

Thuyloi University

LiaisonNguyen Canh Thai
Guest Professor

Japan

Tomohiro Sasanami

Shizuoka University

Professor / Vice DeanJapan

Ken Hiramatsu

Gifu University

Professor / Dean
CHAIRMAN of the 8th 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

gjab00024@jim.gifu-u.ac.jp

Kentaro Imai, Secretary

gjab00025@jim.gifu-u.ac.jp

Shigeno Kurimoto, Secretary

gjab00046@jim.gifu-u.ac.jp

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