UNAIR NEWS聽–聽In both engineering聽and聽science聽research, biodiversity is commonly studied.聽Biodiversity consists of all genes, species, and ecosystems in a region.聽Indonesia is one of the countries with greatest biodiversity.
Therefore, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) 东京热 held 1蝉迟听International Conference on Biodiversity (1聽st聽ICoBioDiv)聽themed聽Sustainable Solution for Human Welfare.聽The seminar was held on September 17-18, 2019 at Wyndham Hotel Surabaya.
Prof.聽Dr.聽Ir.聽H. Agoes S, DEA., as the chief executive said that the seminar was an upgrade of national biodiversity seminar already been held six times.聽The goal聽is to publish聽a paper聽in Scopus journals or聽proceedings.
The chosen theme was intended to understand the benefits of biodiversity to the welfare of the community and to find out the results from biodiversity utilization.
“Indonesia is one of the largest country with biodiversity, the theme is to use this biodiversity for聽human welfare, community welfare, drugs from biodiversity, food from biodiversity in the future,” he explained.
Prof. Agus also said that the seminar could be a forum for researchers or lecturers from all over Indonesia. They can gain more insights about biodiversity.
The seminar was attended by 140 participants and they were not only from biology but also other biological sciences.聽From a total of 140 participants, 94 participants took part in聽paper聽and 46 in poster presentation.
With the seminar, Prof. Agus hoped the researchers can get to know each other through the strength of research infrastructure owned by other universities in other countries. Furthermore, they can form networks, both domestically and abroad.
“For research, the more聽collaboration聽links聽the higher the value,” he said.
The聽keynote speakers聽at the seminar were Prof.聽Peter Nixon from聽Imperial College London, London,聽Prof.聽Wn-Taek Im from聽Hankyong National University Republic of Korea, Prof.聽Liang-Ming Whang from聽National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan,聽and Prof.聽Dr.聽Suharsono from the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI). (*)
Author: Asthesia Dhea C.
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
