Preliminary Program

Scientific Program

The scientific program consists of plenary and invited lectures. We welcome both, oral and poster presentations. Lectures in the morning start at 9:00 and end at 11:30. After lunch, they restart at 13:00 and finish at 18:00. The poster session is held on Saturday. The final schedule will be posted on our conference web site.

Conference time table (Overview)

A list of papers and posters

A list of plenary and invited lecturers are as follows.

Plenary lectures

  • Dr. Pieter BAAS (The Netherlands)
  • Dr. Shoji SUDO (Japan)

Session 1 Anatomy of woody plants

  • Dr. Nguyen Dinh HUNG (Vietnam)
  • Dr. Tomoyuki FUJII(Japan)

Session 2 Cambial activity and cell wall formation

  • Dr. Björn SUNDBERG (Sweden)
  • Dr. Oliver DUNISCH (Germany)
  • Dr. Yoon Soo KIM (South Korea)
  • Dr. Ryo FUNADA (Japan)

Session 3 Vascular conducting paths

  • Dr. John S. SPERRY (USA)
  • Dr. Peter KITIN (Bulgaria)
  • Dr. Yasuhiro UTSUMI (Japan)

Session 4 Dendrochronology

  • Dr. Fritz H. SCHWEINGRUBER (Switzerland)
  • Dr. Won-Kyu PARK (South Korea)
  • Dr. Takumi MITSUTANI (Japan)

Session 5 Ecological and phylogenetic wood anatomy

  • Dr. Elisabeth WHEELER (USA)

Session 6 Cell wall mechanics and ultrastructure

  • Dr. Robert EVANS (Australia)
  • Dr. Lloyd A. DONALDSON (New Zealand)
  • Dr. Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO (Japan)

Session 7 Pathological wood anatomy and wood decay

  • Dr. Adya SINGH (New Zealand)
  • Dr. Geoffrey DANIEL (Sweden)
  • Dr. Keiko KURODA (Japan)

Session 8 Quality of plantation wood

  • Dr. Sri Nugroho MARSOEM (Indonesia)
  • Dr. Mohd Hamami SAHRI (Malaysia)
  • Dr. Teera VEENIN (Thailand)
  • Dr. Toshihiro ONA (Japan)

Session 9 Wood in art and archaeology

  • Dr. Georges METAILIE (France)
  • Dr. Mechtild MERTZ (Germany)
  • Dr. Sang Jin PARK (South Korea)
  • Dr. Shu-ichi NOSHIRO (Japan)

Session10 Wood identification

  • Dr. Peter GASSON (UK)
  • Dr. Regis B. MILLER (USA)
  • Dr. Yuzo SANO (Japan)

Session 11 Wood chemical components

  • Dr. Jiang XIAOMEI (China)
  • Dr. Kazumi FUKAZAWA (Japan)
  • Dr. Kazuhiko FUKUSHIMA (Japan)

Excursion

The excursion will be held on Sunday. We will visit Higashi Honganji Temple (a famous Buddhist temple in Kyoto), Shoyeido (a very old traditional Japanese incense company, http://www.shoyeido.com/) and Suntory (a famous whisky distillery in Japan). The excursion fee is 6,000 yen (8,000 yen for late registration) including Japanese style lunch.

Welcome reception

A welcome reception will be held on Thursday from 16:30 to 18:00, December 1st, 2005 at Conference room III at the second floor of the University Clock Tower Centennial Hall. Free to all participants.

Banquet

The Saturday night at 18:30 pm of December 3, 2002, the banquet will be held at University Clock Tower Centennial Hall 3. (http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/esisetu/e11_tokei/sisetu.htm)
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