Invited Speakers & Topics
| Speakers (General Session) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Peter Barry Adams | School of Botany, University of Melbourne | Australia | Australian Dendrobium species complexes: Biogeography, variation and evolution |
| Yusof Alsagoff | The Orchid Society of South East Asia | Singapore | The genus Renanthera |
| Ana Isabel Barquero | National University of Costa Rica | Costa Rica | Costa Rica: The Small Country which hosts more than Seven Percent of the World’s Orchid Species |
| Eric Danell | Dokmai Garden | Thailand | Endangered Orchids and Strategies to Preserve Them |
| Zhang Yu | Beijing Botanic Gardens | People’s Republic of China | A Study of the Conservation Biology of Cypripedium macranthos in Northern China |
| Harold Koopowitz | University of California | United States | Global Climate Change and its Ramifications for Orchid Conservation |
| Novianto | Indonesian Orchid Society of Malang | Indonesia | Orchid Breeding in Java |
| Anthony Grohovaz | Breeding out of Africa: Ansellia, Stenoglottis and Polystachya | South Africa | WOC 21 Singapore |
| Harry Zelenko | - | Ecuador | CITES – Who wrote these rules? |
| Bonnie Tinsley | Formerly of National Parks Board | United States | The Naming of Plants: A Latin Lesson |
| Ron McHatton | American Orchid Society | United States | CITES is Trade Law |
| Phil T. Seaton | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | United Kingdom | An Integrated Strategy for Ex situ Conservation of Orchids |
| Andrew Brown | Department of Environment and Conservation | Australia | The Remarkable Orchids of Western Australia |
| Emrys Chew | Editor, Malayan Orchid Review | Singapore | Vandaceous Breeding in Singapore: The Lessons of History |
| Chris Cobb | Atherton Orchid Society | Australia | Cymbidium canaliculatum & its Culture |
| Stig Dalstrom & Ngawang Gyeltshen | Wildlife Conservation Division & National Biodiversity Centre - Bhutan , | United States & Bhutan | Orchids in the Land of the Thunder Dragon (Bhutan) |
| Ed De Vogel | National Herbarium of Netherlands | Netherlands | New Guinea Orchids and the New Guinea Orchid Project |
| Jyotsna Devi | Assam Agricultural University | India | The Orchid Flora of North-East India |
| Peter Furniss | World Orchid Conference Trustee | USA | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Lourens Grobler | South Africa | Summer-rainfall Orchids of South Africa | |
| Olaf Gruss | German Orchid Society (Deutsche Orchideengesellschaft DOG) | Germany | Natural Hybridization in the Genera Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium |
| Johan Hermans | WOC Trust | United Kingdom | Henry Ridley, his life and work on the Orchids of Madagascar |
| John Ingram | University of Florida | United States | Books and Manuscripts – Windows on the History of Orchids and their Ways |
| Jean-Michel Hervouet | Societe Francaise d'Orchidophilie | France | Madagascar: The Orchids of Ambondrombe, The Mountain of the Dead |
| Rajkumar Kishor | Centre for Orchid Gene Conservation of Eastern Himalayan Region | India | Versatility of Renanthera imschootiana Rolfe, a Rare and Endangered Orchid, as a Potential Parent in Breeding of Vandaceous Hybrids |
| Anthony Lamb | Orchidologist and conservationist | Malaysia | An Updated Appraisal of the Ex-Situ And In-Situ Conservation of the Native Orchids Of Sabah |
| Lam-Chan Lee Tiang | Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority | Singapore | The Singapore Orchid Industry - Challenges and ProspectsThe Singapore orchid industry - challenges and prospects |
| Sheryl Lawson | Australasian Native Orchid Society, Melbourne Suburbs Group Australian Orchid Council Judging Panel |
Australia | The Breeding and Culture of Award Standard Australian Dendrobium Species |
| Martin Motes | Motes Orchid Inc. | United States | Future Vanda Breeding |
| Haruhiko Nagata | Nagoya International Orchid Show | Japan | How to Organise an Orchid Show |
| Andrea Niessen | Orquideas del Valle | Columbia | The Incredible Miniature Orchids from Colombia and their Culture |
| Peter O'Byrne | Visiting Research Fellow, Forest Research Institute, Malaysia; Research Associate, Singapore Botanic Gardens | Singapore | Orchid species in S.E. Asia: Discoveries |
| Henry Oakeley | Orchid Society of Great Britain; Royal Botanic Gardens & Singapore Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | Following in the footsteps of the expedition of Ruiz, Pavon and Dombey to Peru (1777-1788) |
| Mohan Pradhan | Orchid diversity in the Sikkim Himalayas | India | Orchid Specialist Group, Indian Subcontinent Region |
| Udai Pradhan | Himalayan Orchid Exports | India | Indian Jewel Orchids, their cultivation and conservation needs |
| Alec M Pridgeon | Royal Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | What is a Genus? |
| Andre Schuiteman | Orchid Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | Orchids of Laos |
| Kenneth Siew | Australian Orchid Council | Australia | Pelorism in Orchids - A Review |
| Mahammad Khasim Shaik | Acharya Nagarjuna University | India | Orchid Diversity and Conservation in India |
| Phil Spence | Honorary Research Associate, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney | Australia | Dendrobium sect Latouna Species and Hybrids |
| Tay Jwee Boon | Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore | Singapore | Papilionanthe Species and significant hybrids |
| Gary Yong Gee | Australia | Dendrobiums of Australasia | |
| Paul Alan Wetter | University of Miami School of Medicine | United States | Five Cattleyas for a Heritage Collection |
| Nonito Dolera | Philippines Fern & Orchid Society | Philippines | Philippine Orchid Species |
| Speakers (Scientific Session) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Simmi Aggarwal | Panjab University | India | Mycorrhiza-assisted Conservation of Vanda coerulea, a Critically Endangered Orchid from India |
| Melanie Chiangwijaya | National Chung Hsing University | Taiwan | Induction of in-vitro Flowering of Phalaenopsis and Doritaenopsis |
| Chung Mei-Chu | National Museum of Natural Science, Academia Sinica | Taiwan | Molecular Cytogenetic Studies on the Genus Paphiopedilum: Genome Relationships and Chromosome Identification |
| Pavel Kindlmann | Global Change Reseach Centre | Czech Republic | What determines Worldwide Orchid Species Richness? |
| Alex Chang | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | Physiological response of Phalaenopsis towards different salinity |
| Park So-Young | Chungbuk National University | Korea | Clonal propagation System and Enabling Technologies in Korea |
| Harold Koopowitz | University of California | United States | Advances in Breeding Miniature Paphioprdilum Hybrids |
| Michele Rodda | University of Turin | Italy | Patterns of Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity through Time and Space in some Mediterranean Orchid Species |
| Rebecca C.C. Hsu | Taiwan Forest Research Institute | Taiwan | Modeling Spatial Patterns of Rare Orchids for Conservation Prioritization in Taiwan |
| Mike Duncan | Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment | Australia | Translocating success - monitoring individuals in a colony-forming species with a dormancy phase |
| Ding Lihua | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Identification and Characterization of SOC1 in Dendrobium |
| Jason Fischer | Orchids Ltd | United States | Cymbidium subgenus Jensoa |
| Lauren M. Gardiner | Writhlington School Orchid Project and Royal Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | Exploring Orchids, Conservation, and Education – The Experience of the Writhlington School Orchid Project |
| Wesley Higgins | Lakes Park Botanic Gardens | United States | Holomorphology of Guarianthe |
| Alexander Hirtz | Quito Botanical Garden | Ecuador | Why Split Masdevallia in so many new Genera? |
| Chen Hong Hwa | Institute of Tropical Plant Sciences & National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan | Molecular Biology of Orchid Flowers – with Emphasis on Phalaenopsis |
| Syoichi Ichihashi | Aichi University of Education | Japan | Haploid and Doubled Haploid Plant Formation through Female Gamete Parthenogenesis by stigma NAA treatment and natural chromosome doubling in Bletilla |
| He Jie | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Effects of Virus Infection and Light Stress on Photosynthesis of C3 and CAM Orchids under Natural Tropical Conditions |
| Gillian Khew | Singapore Botanic Gardens | Singapore | Determination of the parentage of Vanda Miss Joaquim (Orchidaceae) based on the sequence of two chloroplast genes rbcL and matK |
| Qin Lin | National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Photosynthesis, Water Relation and Proline Content in Green Leaves and Green Pseudobulbs of C3 Oncidium ‘Golden Wish’ under Drought Stress |
| Masahiro Mii | Chiba University | Japan | Biotechnology of Orchid: A Brief Review of Genetic Transformation and Protoplast Fusion in Orchids |
| Helen Millner | University of Wolverhampton | United Kingdom | Use of ex-situ orchid collections in conservation research with reference to Restrepia (Orchidaceae) |
| Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti | Nepal | Himalayan orchid conservation problems and prospect: lessons from Nepal | |
| Noushka Reiter | Melbourne University; RMIT University; Royal Botanic Gardens | Australia | The Mycorrhizal Diversity of the Endangered Metallic Sun Orchid, Implications for Conservation |
| Marc-André Selosse | Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, CNRS | France | The Use and Abuse of Mycorrhizal Fungi as Carbon Source in Orchids |
| Magali Wright | University of Melbourne | Australia | Mycorrhizal Specificity and its Influence on Species Rarity in Caladenia (Orchidaceae) |
| Yeh Kai Wun | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | Potent Bolting Mechanism of Oncidium 'Gower Ramsey' by Elevated Growth Temperature |
| Ekaterina Zheleznaya | Timiryazev State Museum of Biology | Russia | Forecasting the Dynamics of Populations of some Orchids in Phytocenoses in Central Russia |
| Michael Fay | Royal Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | Developing Conservation Genetics Tools in the Era of New Generation Sequencing |
| Kenneth Er | National Parks Board | Singapore | Creating a New Garden for Orchids in Singapore: Gardens by the Bay |
| Speakers (Darwin and Orchid Pollination Symposium) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Lutz Thilo Wasserthal | Erlangen University | Germany | Evolution of long-tongued hawk moths and pollination of long-spurred Angraecum orchids |
| John van Wyhe | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Darwin and Orchids |
| Ong Poh Teck | Forest Research Institute Malaysia | Malaysia | Observations on the Pollination of Some Peninsular Malaysian Orchids |
| Joseph Arditti | University of California | United States | Darwin’s Splendid Sport |
| Craig Peter | Rhodes University | South Africa | Modes of Pollination and the Occurrence of Deception in the Orchidaceae |
| Robert Pemberton | Florida Museum of Natural History | United States | Pollination Efficiencies of Chinese Cypripedium Orchids with and without Pollinia - Insights into the Evolutionary Value of Pollinia |
| Johannes Spaethe | University of Wuerzburg | Germany | Through the eyes of the beholder:Visual Ecology of Pollination in Sexually Deceptive Orchids |
| Tan Keng Hong | Malaysia | Pollination of Bactrocerophilous Bulbophyllum Orchids | |
| Speakers (Computer and Database Resources Symposium) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Rudolf Jenny | Swiss Orchid Foundation | Switzerland | The orchid-literature database BibliOrchidea |
| Ernst Vitek | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien | Austria | Databasing Reichenbach's orchid herbarium - problems and solutions |
| Lucienne de Witte | Botanisches Institute, Swiss Orchid Foundation | Switzerland | World Orchid Iconography |
| Franco Pupulin | University of Costa Rica, Lankester Botanical Garden | Costa Rica | Towards a Global Taxonomic Orchid Network |
| Frank Slaughter Jr | American Orchid Society | United States | Delving Deeper into Orchid Data Resources Integration: Advances in Software Technology |
| Speakers (Conservation Symposium) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Mike Hutchings | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | Lessons from a 30-year demographic study of the rare terrestrial orchid Ophrys sphegodes (early spider orchid) |
| Kenneth Cameron | University of Wisconsin | United States | On the Status of Conservation Efforts applied to Vanilla, the World’s most Popular Orchid |
| Mark Clements | Australian National Herbarium | Australia | Recovery project for three threatened species including the Eastern Australian Underground orchid Rhizanthella slateri from the Pacific Highway upgrade |
| Rusea Go | Universiti Putra Malaysia | Malaysia | Assessing the Diversity and Conservation Status of Corybas, a Highly Endangered Orchid Genus in Peninsular Malaysia |
| Hong Liu | Florida International University; Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden | United States | Conserving Wild Orchids in Southwestern China: Buffering the Impacts of Global Changes |
| Lee Yung-I | National Museum of Natural Science | Taiwan | The Conservation of Slipper Orchids Using in vitro Seed Germination |
| Mohammed Kamrul Huda | University of Chittagong | Bangladesh | Medicinal Orchids of Bangladesh and their Conservation: Exploitation VS. Reproductive Failure |
| Yam Tim Wing | Singapore Botanic Gardens | Singapore | Conservation, Reintroduction and Rediscovery of the Native Orchids of Singapore |
| Irawati | Bogor Botanical Gardens | Indonesia | Priority Species for Indonesian Orchid Conservation |
| Marilyn HS Light | North America Regional Chair, Orchid Specialist Group | Canada | Conservation, Reintroduction and Rediscovery of the Native Orchids of Singapore |
| Jacob Phelps | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Uncovering the Trade in Wild Orchids in Continental Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Myanmar) |
| Speakers (Continental Asian Orchids Symposium) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Leonid V. Averyanov | Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | Present Data on the Inventory of the Orchid Family in Eastern Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam) |
| Pierre Bonnet | National Institute of Agricultural Research | France | Vegetative Features and Architecture for Plant Identification in Relation to Phylogeny of Continental Asian Orchids |
| Phillip Cribb | Formerly of the Orchid Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens | United Kingdom | The genus Calanthe and its allies in SE Asia |
| Stephan Gale | Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden | Hong Kong | Analysis of Conservation Status and Extinction Risk of the Orchids of Hong Kong |
| Jin Xiaohua | Herbarium, Chinese Academy of Sciences | People's Republic of China | Orchids of the Pan Himalayas |
| Alexander Kocyan | University of Potsdam | Germany | Phylogeny of Subtribe Aeridinae – What Do Characters Tell Us? |
| Luo Yi-Bo | Chinese Academcy of Sciences and Orchid Society of China | People's Republic of China | Floral morphological stasis and pollination systems in a vicarious species pair of Cypripedium (Orchidaceae) from Eastern Asia and Eastern North America |
| Sathish Kumar | Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute (TBGRI) | India | A synopsis of the genus Rhytionanthos Garay, Hamer & Siegerist |
| Saw Lwin | Myanmar Floriculturist Association | Myanmar | Past, present and future of Myanmar Orchids |
| Promila Pathak | Panjab University | India | In vitro Propagation of Indian Orchids and Induction of Mycorrhizal Associations: Possibilities and Achievements |
| Henrik Pedersen | Botanical Garden & Museum, University of Copenhagen | Denmark | Flora Projects as Drivers of Research on Multiple Aspects of Biodiversity – Exemplified by the Treatment of the Orchidaceae for Flora of Thailand |
| Holger Perner | Huanglong National Park | People's Republic of China | Pleione - A Genus of Temperate to Warm-temperate Mountain Regions in Continental Southeast Asia |
| Kanchit Thammasiri | Mahidol University | Thailand | Ex Situ Conservation of Thai Orchid Species |
| Santi Watthana | Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden | Thailand | Biology of the Threatened Terrestrial Orchid Genus Sirindhornia |
| Speakers (Medicinal Orchids Symposium) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Teoh Eng Soon | Orchid Society of South East Asia | Singapore | Asian Medicinal Orchids |
| Hong Hai | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Chinese Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Illness as Empirical Science |
| Bijaya Pant | Central Department of Botany | Nepal | Medicinal Orchids of Nepal and Their Conservation by In vitro Technique |
| Orchid Judging Forum (Session Chair: Peter Furniss) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Peter Furniss | WOC Trust | United States | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Colin Jennings | Australian Orchid Council | Australia | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Munekazu Ejiri | Japan Orchid Growers Association | Japan | Orchid Judging Forum |
| John Elliott | Orchid Society of South East Asia, Singapore | Singapore | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Johan Hermans | Royal Horticultural Society, British Orchid Council | United Kingdom | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Chen-Chung Chen | Taiwan Orchid Growers Association | Taiwan | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Sandra Svoboda | Cymbidium Society of America | United States | Orchid Judging Forum |
| Forum - The work of the International Orchid Registrar, Royal Horticultural Society | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Julian Shaw | International Orchid Registrar; Royal Horticultural Society | United Kingdom | Forum - The work of the International Orchid Registrar, Royal Horticultural Society |
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