DATE:
November 19, 2016
VENUE:
Makiling Botanic Gardens, UPLB (Google Map)
VIDEOS ON MT. MAKILING FOREST RESERVE:
Come Visit Mt. Makiling!
Mt. Makiling Video Gallery
COORDINATORS:
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Jocelyn Zarate (joytzarate@gmail.com)
Admin Coordinator: Ms. Rachell Bacsa, PGC (rsbacsa@up.edu.ph)
Program
6:00-8:00am BREAKFAST AT VENUE
8:00-8:10am Welcome address of the PGC Executive Director (10 mins)
Baltazar Aguda (bdaguda@up.edu.ph)
Building a global network in biodiversity genomics for the PGC
Presentation Slides
8:10-8:30am From the Director of PGC DNA Sequencing Core Facility (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Ma. Anita Bautista (mambautista@mbb.upd.edu.ph)
Forest Insect Pest Management Through Genomics
8:30-8:50am Developing Canopy Science in the Philippines (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Leo Barua (ldbarua@up.edu.ph)
Forester, project staff of CANOPI project 1
Presentations Slides
8:50-9:10am Probing the links between climate change and forest biological species invasion through genomics (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Lerma S. Maldia (lsmaldia@up.edu.ph)
Professor, Forest Biological Science (FBS), CFNR, UPLB
Presentation Slides
9:10-9:30am Genomics of tree-microbe interactions (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Jessa P. Ata (jpata@up.edu.ph)
Asst. Professor (Forest pathology/mycology), FBS, CFNR, UPLB
Presentation Slides
9:30-9:50am Exploring the forest canopy metagenome for novel compounds (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Jessica F. Simbahan (jfsimbahan@gmail.com)
Associate Professor, Institute of Biology (IB), UP Diliman; and team member of Proj 4, Forest Canopy program
Presentation Slides
9:50-10:30am BREAK
10:30-10:50am Biochemical and molecular characterization of Rhizosphere collected microbes in relation to virulence and/or their applications (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Jocelyn T. Zarate (joytzarate@gmail.com)
University Researcher at BIOTECH, UPLB; Project leader of Proj 4: Forest canopy monerans and fungi
Presentation Slides
10:50-11:10am Forest canopy wildlife (Project 3): Arboreal Vertebrate Adaptations and Defenses (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Juan Carlos Gonzalez (jtgonzalez@up.edu.ph)
Director Museum of Natural History, UPLB; Project leader of Proj 3: Forest Canopy vertebrate fauna
11:10-11:30am Assessing vertebrate species richness in forests using blowfly gut genomics: a marriage of wildlife forensics and biodiversity (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Ronniel A. Pedales (ronnipedals@gmail.com)
University Research Associate, Natural Sciences Research Institute and Institute of Biology, UP Diliman
Presentation Slides
11:30-12noon DISCUSSION
12nn-2:00pm LUNCH AT VENUE
2:00-2:20pm Molecular Diagnostics of Insect Pests in Industrial Tree Plantations (ITPs) in the Philippines (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Dianne Joy Aguilon (ddaguilon@up.edu.ph)
Asst. Professor (forest entomology), FBS, CFNR, UPLB
Presentation Slides
2:20-2:40pm Bacterial and fungal diseases of local bees (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Noel Sabino (noel_sabino@yahoo.com)
Asst. Professor at Department of Microbiology, IBS, CAS, UPLB
Presentation Slides
2:40-3:00pm Promoter and Epigenetic Research Potentials on Forest Flora and Fauna (10 mins talk, 10 mins discussion)
Jorge Gil Angeles (jgcangeles.pgc.uplb@gmail.com)
Philippine Genome Center-Agriculture, UPLB
3:00-4:00pm DISCUSSION (& MERIENDA)
