Scientific Programme

Comparative endocrinology into the furture in Asia and Oceania

The scientific programme will consist of four plenary lectures, 12 sessions of oral papers and posters. Oral papers will be arranged into parallel sessions, with four or five papers in each session. Papers will be 15 minutes for presentations, with 3 minutes for questions and 2 minutes between papers.

Plenary lectures

Jean Joss (Sydney, Australia)
"History and future prospects for comparative endocrinology in Asia and Oceania"

Takashi Yoshimura (Nagoya, Japan)
"Functional genomics approaches in comparative endocrinology"

Saumen Maitra (Santiniketan, India)
"Comparative endocrinology of the pineal gland, photoperiodism and reproduction: a global perspective from Asia and Oceania"

Ishwar Parhar (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
"Fish: a comparative model for biomedical research"