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

Issue ７January to December, 2018

Innovative Crop Protection International Symposium（March ７-８）
UGSAS held the 8th International Symposium on its campus. At the beginningof the symposium, Professor Masateru Senge, UGSAS Dean and Dr. Fumiaki
Suzuki, Executive Director for International Affairs and Public Relations, Vice
President gave welcome speeches, which were followed by Dr. Shirley C.
Agrupis, the President of Mariano Marcos University (the Philippines, our alumnae). A total of 10 students and professors
specializing in plant pathology and 13 government-funded international students atGifu University (one is from Shizuoka University), and one student from Nagoya University also made their poster presentations.
They later exchange opinions concerning
their research activities with one another. As
many as 97 people participated in the symposium, and it was a big success. The symThe
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The 6th International Roundtable Meeting（October 16）
Our school held the 6th UGSAS-GU Roundtable at Juroku Plaza in front of JR
Station and was attended by 58 people including vice-chancellors, coordinatorsfrom IC-GU12＊ member universities. We
welcomed the new member universities toIC-GU12(18 universities from 8 South andSoutheast Asia regions). They are; Bangladesh Agricultural University(Bangladesh) and Mariano Marcos State
University (the Philippines). Two universities’ new membership ceremony was held
and later active opinion exchanges about
the current status of the Double PhD program and the Sandwich program unfolded. These
two programs were created for international collaboration with the objective of securing highquality doctoral education in the field of agriculture.
*IC-GU12:” International Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia for the Doctoral
Education in Agricultural Science and Biotechnology”, which was created at theinitiative of Gifu University.

LATEST NEWS●
●Ready to start a Joint Degree Program in April, 2019
Two of new following Universities joined IC-GU12 on 16th,october,2018
Bangladesh Agricultural University (Bangladesh)
Mariano Marcos State University (The Philippines)

MESSAGE from DEAN
Welcome to the 7th issue of UGSAS-GU Newsletter, I would liketo introduce the great progressin the international collaborative
research and education in thelast year, 2018. The first is, theJapanese government provided
the joint degree program (JDP)
with the Indian Institute ofTechnology Guwahati in June,
and the major chair of the international JDP in food science andtechnology will be launched onApril, 2019. The second is,
Bangladesh Agricultural University and Mariano Marcos State
University newly became themember universities of IC-GU
12 at the 6th roundtable meeting
held in October, and which hasdeveloped to 18 member universities in 8 countries. The
third is, we held the international symposiums of “Plant Disease” on March and “Animal Science” on October in the campusof Gifu University, furthermore,
the international workshop of“Plant production” in Lampung
UniversityonDecember,through which the research network among the young lecturersof UGSAS-GU and alumnus/
alumna who are active in academia, has been promoted.
Such activities have been making steady results and this fiscal
year we were able to accept excellent entrants of 32 students(of which 19 were internationalstudents). In this issue, we will
introduce such unique activities
to everyone who is active in Japan and overseas. I would bepleased if you give any valuablecomments on the new development towards globalization.

Masateru Senge, PhD
Dean

The 9th International Symposium on Animal Production
and Conservation for Sustainable Development （October 17-8）

Commencement Ceremony
March 13 & Sep. 21

The 9th International Symposium
was held at the UGSAS Building
targeting young UGSAS graduates
who are already playing a leadingrole in biology and agriculture in
the international arena. A total of112 people attended for two days.
Five researchers gave keynote
speeches. In the afternoon of October 18, a poster session opened co-hosted by our university’s Rearing Program for Basin WaterEnvironment Best Presentation Award Winners
Leaders. 26
HEND ALTAIB: D1 & RAJ KISHAN AGRAHARI: D2 (UGSAS)
students
FENG WENZHUO: D3 & SHAO HUIJUAN: D3
made their(BWEL: Gifu University Rearing Program for Basin Water Environmental
presentaLeaders)
tions.

The number of students who received
the doctoral diploma from March toDec. 2018 are as follows;

The 6th International Workshop 2018 at Lampung
Univ. -Crop Production and Productivity under Global Climate

UGSAS welcomed new students atthe ceremony, and the number ofstudents enrolled are as follows;

Change -(December 3-4, Indonesia)

April: 21 students （8 intel. Students included)

UGSAS opened the 6th International workshop at University of Lampung.
This workshop started in 2014 for thepurpose of university’ s internationalization and active interchange withlocal industries. On Dec. 3, researchpresentations were made in four
different sessions. The first session
was began with the opening remarks
from Prof. Dr. RA Bustomi Rosadi who
is in charge of the workshop operation. In the second and fourth sessions, 6 guest speakers included Assoc. Prof. Teruaki Shimazu, Assis. Prof. Takashi Tanaka, Assis. Prof. KeigoNoda (UGSAS) gave keynote speeches. In the third session, 24 speakers
including our student, Mr. Ahmad Tusi gave research presentations in threeparallel sessions. An active question and answer session followed. On Dec.
4, UGSAS delegates visited Great Giant Foods (GGF: 2 hour-drive from thecenter of Lampung City) and inspected the research field escorted by Assoc.
Director Supriyono Loekito.

Oct.: 11 students (11)March: 9 students（5 intel. Students included)
Sept.: 11 students（10）Dec.: 1 student（1）Entrance Ceremony
April 13 & Oct. 5IC-GU12 Information
・Nov. 27-28*International Conferenceon Climate Change (ICCC)
was held with the cooperation of Sebelas Maret University (Indonesia)

WINNER LIST 2018
浅野早知,河村奈緒子,今村彰宏,鈴木健一,石田秀治,安藤弘宗(2018) グロボ系列スフィンゴ糖脂質プローブの合成と細胞膜ナノドメインの分子基盤解明研究．第37回日本糖質学会年会 第21回日本糖質学会ポスター賞
伊藤弘樹,小林佑理子,藤田美紀,井内 聖,小林正智,小山博之(2018）AtALMT1のアルミニウム誘導を制御する転写因子STOP1内部の調節領域に関する研究.日本土壌肥料学会2018年度神奈川大会ポスター発表 ポスター賞
浅野早知，河村奈緒子，田中秀則，今村彰宏，鈴木健一，石田秀治，安藤弘宗（2018）細胞膜微小領域の構造・機能解明に向けたグロボ系列糖脂質プローブの開発と挙動解析．糖鎖科学中部拠点 第15回「若手の力」フォーラム 2018年糖鎖科学中部拠点奨
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Noriaki Nakajima, Kazuya Doi, Sae Tamiya, and Masato Yayota (2018). Potential of diverse pasture for improving physiological and immunological status in grazing cattle. The 7th Japan-China-Korea Grassland Conference. Young Scientist Award