Program of the Sino-French Seminar

8:30 Opening Ceremony (Chair: Zhou Zhekun)

Introduction of the 50th anniversary – Norbet Paluch

Introduction of XTBG – Chen Jin

9:00 First Symposium (Chair: Fan Zexin)

9:00 French Naturalists in China: a historical perspective

Frédéric Jacques

9:25 Pollinators sharing in fig-fig wasp obligate mutualism: patterns and

implication for co-diversification

Wang Gang

9:50 Coffee Break

10:10 Second Symposium (Chair: Sovanmoly Hul)

10:10 South Yunnan and neighboring regions as the cradle of the diversity of the

Ficus-pollinating wasp mutualism, and resilience of the mutualism faced by

global change

Finn Kjellberg

10:35 Spatial and temporal climate variability over China for the period 1960-2011

Fan Zexin

11:00 Fossil fruits of Burretiodendron (Malvaceae s.l.) and associated leaves from

the Late Miocene of Yunnan: first description and climatic implications

Julie Lebreton-Anberrée

11:25 Net primary production of a tropical dipterocarp forest: patterns and

dynamics

Tan Zhenghong

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Visit of the laboratories

14:00 Third Symposium (Chair: Finn Kjellberg)

14:00 Taxonomy, Herbaria Collections and Conservation

Sonvanmoly Hul

14:25 Water use strategies of a woody tropical bamboo species (Bambusa vulgaris):

responses to meteorological factors and maintaining water balance

Yang Shijian

14:50 Genomic adaptations to environmental gradients in tropical trees

Marie Fougère-Danezan

15:15 Leaf anatomy, morphology and physiology of lianas in tropical rainforest,

Xishuangbanna: with special reference to coexisting trees

Zhang Jiaolin

15:40 Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Old Garden Roses from the

19th Century

Li Shubin

16:05 Coffee Break

16:30 Discussion on collaboration projects

16:30 Presentation of the French Embassy fundings for Sino-French collaborations

Norbert Paluch

17:00 General Discussion

18:00 Dinner