1st Asian Colloquium of Soil Zoology 2024
Illustration by Yoshihiko Sato
The first Asian Colloquium of Soil Zoology (ACSZ 2024)
Kickoff meeting
22 (Thursday) –24 (Saturday), August 2024 Nara, Japan.
“We are gathering researchers in the field of soil zoology from across Asian countries to discuss our research. While our community may be small, much like a family, we firmly believe that such exchanges hold significant value.”
Thank you very much for the support generously provided by the ICSZ/ICA Fund and the Japanese Society of Soil Zoology.
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With Gratitude: A Closing Address to the Conference
24 August 2024
Dear Participants of the first Asian Colloquium of Soil Zoology (ACSZ 2024),
The kickoff meeting for the Asian Colloquium of Soil Zoology has successfully concluded with your cooperation. As the representative of the Local Committee, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all participants from more than seven countries.
As you return to your respective countries, we wish you all safe travels. My heartfelt hope is that you remain healthy and encounter no difficulties as you transition back to your daily lives.
I trust you’ll agree that the friendships we cultivate are vital to our growth. During this conference, we reaffirmed the strong bonds that unite us as researchers across Asia in the study of soil animals. These connections are truly invaluable to our personal and professional development.
It is we, the organizers, who have perhaps benefited the most from this gathering. Thanks to your presence, we have grown and learned immensely. The capacity for growth is a remarkable trait of humanity at any age, and I am deeply grateful to each of you for your role in this process. Thank you, sincerely.
Looking ahead, we have also committed to deepening our ties as members of the Asian Society for Soil Zoology, a significant step forward in our shared journey. Additionally, we have agreed to hold the Asian Society for Soil Zoology conference every three years within Asia, ensuring our continued collaboration and growth.
We eagerly anticipate and wholeheartedly support Prof. Lee in Busan, Korea, in successfully organizing the next conference in 2027. Let us continue our earnest efforts in the pursuit of scientific truth, so that our joy in reuniting will be even greater.
Finally, I wish each of you a future filled with brightness and success. Thank you once again for your participation. Until we meet again.
Warmest regards,
ACSZ 2024 Local Committee
Satoshi SHIMANO, Professor Ph. D., Hosei University.
Winners of the Best Presentation Award (BPA)
At the ACSZ 2024, we honor the following four young researchers with the Best Presentation Award for their exceptionally meticulous and outstanding data, as well as their excellent presentations. We have awarded the four highlighted (bold letters) presenters with the Best Presentation Award.
Po-Wei Yu, Jen-Pan Huang, Chih-Han Chang: Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of the endemic Metaphire formosae species group (Crassiclitellata: Megascolecidae) in Taiwan and the Southern Ryukyus
Jeongwon Choi, Jimin Shin, Dohyeon Jeong, Nakyeong Lee, Yun Ji Kim, Aslan Hwanhwi Lee, Yun-Sik Lee: A Study on food switching time of Allonychiurus kimi (Collembola: Onychiuridae): from fungi to bacteria.
Asuka Segawa, Yudai Kitagami, Yosuke Matsuda: Morphological characteristics and viability of Tuber himalayense spores after pass through millipede guts
Natsuki Hirakizawa, Takeyuki Nakamura, Takeo Yamauchi: Centipedes and millipedes active in winter in eastern Japan
The group photograph of the participants is shown below.
Schedule (fixed) :
22 (Thursday), Aug. 10:30 Business meeting
12:50 Opening session, Plenary Lecture, Oral talk+ Posters
23 (Friday), Aug. Oral talk, Oral talk+ Posters, field trip
24 (Saturday), Aug. Oral talk
Registration:
PLEASE click here. https://forms.office.com/r/WpvG8RSKPx
(The deadline for presentation is 15 June 2024).
Extended the deadline until 30 of June! Closed
Abstract Submission:
Please write your abstract in MS Word using the abstract format at the bottom of this web page.
Satoshi SHIMANO, Prof., Ph.D. sim@hosei.ac.jp
Please write in the subject of the mail as “[ACSZ]……”
(The deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2024. After this deadline, your registration may be canceled.)
Venue:
The room name is the “Sho Hall”(in Japanese) – a small hall.
Nara Centennial Hall (7-1 Sanjo-Miyamae-cho, Nara City, Nara 630-8121, Japan)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fp8seg3ayNuZWkV39 Map
http://www.nara100.com/introduce_3.html. Website
Hotel:
The local committee will not be able to arrange hotels for you. Please make your own hotel reservations via the Internet, as many tourists will be in Nara in August.
Participation Fee:
– Regular: 10,000 JPY (after 15 April 2024: 12,000 JPY)
– Student, Post-doc & Non-researcher: 4,000 JPY (after 15 April 2024: 5,000 JPY)
Meals NOT included!!
Payment on site by cash!! Receipts will be provided (Please let us know if you have any requests for the receipt form.)
(To reduce the registration fee, 1) we recommend buying your lunch in the morning at a convenience store, & 2) we do not plan to make a beautiful booklet, mainly a PDF file.)
Presentation:
Oral talk & Poster presentation. Even students are encouraged to present at ORAL whenever possible.
We are considering setting up an Award for the best presentation.
Contact person:
Satoshi SHIMANO, Prof., Ph.D. sim@hosei.ac.jp
Hosei University
Please write in the subject of the mail as “[ACSZ]……”
Founders:
Prof. Wu Donghui (Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Normal University: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China)
Prof. Chuleui Jung, (Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong, Korea)
Prof. Chih-Han Chang (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Prof. Sopark Jantarit (Excellence Center for Biodiversity of Peninsular Thailand–CBIPT, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand)
Prof. Anh D. Nguyen (Institute of Ecology & Biological Resources, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Prof. Satoshi Shimano (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan) *Local organizer
Local Committee:
Prof. Satoshi Shimano (Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Takuo Sawahata (Kinki University, Nara, Japan)
Dr. Hiro Kasai (Kinki University, Nara, Japan)
Prof. Taizo Nakamori (Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan)
Abstract format
