UGSAS-GU NEWSLETTERThe United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University

The 10th International RoundtableMeeting（November 9 online）
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (UGSAS)
held(Wednesday, November 9) "The 10th IC-GU12
Roundtable Meeting" with the participation of "International
Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia for
the Doctoral Education in Agricultural Science andBiotechnology (IC-GU 12; comprising 20 universities from 9
countries in South and Southeast Asia including Japan)."Twenty academic
staff representing
theirrespective
universities shared
the current statusofinternational
joint research programs, and exchanged opinions
on various case studies presented in the meeting.

The 1st International Joint Seminar（November 9 online）
The meeting was followed by a seminar titled, "The 1st International Joint Seminar on Agricultural Science and Biotechnology." Professor Rakhi Chaturvedi from Indian Institute ofTechnology Guwahati (India), Mr. Yanico Hadi Prayogo from
Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB, Indonesia), and Associate Professor KOBORI
Hikaru from Shizuoka University(Japan)
gave
speeches on thethemes of natural
productchemistry
andbiology. Approximately 120 people including students from IC-GU12 attended the seminar.
Lastly, "UGSAS-GU & BWEL Joint Poster Session on Agricultural and Basin Water Environmental Sciences 2022" wasjointly hosted online by the members of "Rearing Program forBasin Water Environmental Leaders (BWEL)" of River Basin
Research Center, Gifu University. Twenty-two students competed the quality of posters, of them, five students were presented the best poster award.

Issue 11January to December, 2022

MESSAGE from DEAN
Japanese national university corporations set business and operational goals to be achieved in six
years as mid-term goals and publish their plans forachieving these goals as mid-term plans. This system started in 2004, and this year marks the fourthterm. Gifu University and Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (THERS) have alsoestablished mid-term goals and a mid-term plan, andour school, UGSAS, has developed an action plan toachieve the mid-term goals. In the process of constructing this action plan, the outline of what ourschool can and should aim for has emerged. Theaction plan includes many important tasks, such asstudent support, improvement of research capabilities, advancement of women, and utilization of theTHURS and so on. Among them it is fair to say thatinternationalization and collaboration with society are
the most important features of our school plan. UGSAS has been aiming to develop human resources
overseas since its establishment and is essentially aschool open to the world. International collaborative
research is essential for improving Japan's scientificand technological capabilities, which are unfortunately in relative decline. It may sound arrogant to call on
students and faculty members, who tend to be somewhat inward-looking, to participate in world-focusedresearch, but I believe this is one of the roles of UGSAS. As for collaboration with society, our school
has been contributed to the development of bioresource-related industries thus far, but it in the fourth
period may be somewhat different from the past. It is
expected for our school and industry to work together
in terms of human resources, research seeds, andresearch funding aiming to create new value. Although the action plans provide direction for the next
six years, they are actually a series of smaller plans.
We will continue to devote ourselves to it, hoping thateach accumulation will eventually become a bigmountain.
In this issue, we would like to introduce the uniqueactivities to everyone who are active in Japan andoverseas. I would be pleased if you give any valuable comments on the development.
Finally, I would like to thank Prof. Yabe, Vice Dean ofUGSAS as a facilitator on the roundtable of ICGU12, Prof. S. Suzuki, Dr. Rakhi of IITG, Prof.
Kobori, and Dr. Yanico as a coordinator and lecturersof Joint Seminar.

Ken HIRAMATSU, PhD
DEAN

Poster Presentation Award
Desti Dian Amalina:
Natural Sci. and Technol./ IPB
Md. Abir Ul Islam: D2
Nichapat Keawmanee: D3Completion Ceremony
March 14 & September 16
The number of students who received
the doctoral diploma from March toDec. 2022 are as follows;

Naoya Shimpuku:

March: 9 students（1 intel. Students included)

Natural Sci. and Technol.

June: 1 student

Haoning Su: BWEL

Sep.: 8 students（7）Dec.: 0 student

UGSAS News
From 29 November to 4 December, Prof. Hiramatsu(Dean), Prof.
Mitsunaga, Prof. Yamada, Prof.
Nakano(Vice Dean) and Prof. Yabe(Vice Dean) visited the Lab Station of King Mongkut's UniversityofTechnology
Thonburi(Thailand), Mariano Marcos State
University (Philippines) a member
university of IC-GU12, and King
Mongkut's University of Technology Lat Krabang (Thailand) wheregraduates of UGSAS is teaching.

Entrance Ceremony
April 8 & October 4
UGSAS welcomed new students at theceremony, and the number of students
enrolled are as follows;
April: 20 students （10 intel. Students included)
Oct.: 12 students (11)The 8th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC)（November 17 on online and Offline）
The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences (UGSAS), in collaboration with Sebelas
Maret University (Indonesia) and Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), organised the 8thInternational Conference on Climate Change 2022 entitled "Environmental Management towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the Changing Climate", was held on 17
November at a hybrid online and offline (venue: Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand).
The opening address was given by Prof. Hiramatsu, dean of UGSAS, and Assoc. Prof. Taku
Saito gave a keynote speech entitled "The effect of climate change on potential forest carbon
sequestration in a mountainous landscape at an administrative district scale in Japan :Implication for climate change research". A total of 283 participants attended online andoffline.

【Award 2022】●Hiroki Mitsuishi, Daiki Kato, Kana Yokoyama, Kana Yoshida, Eiji Muraki, Shin Maruyama, Masato Yayota (2022).
A farm-scale assessment of β-carotene variation and potency on reproductive performance in Japanese Black cows. The
19th Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Congress. Jeju, Korea. JSAS Excellent Presentation Award.