AUSTRALIA-JAPAN WORKSHOP ON BIODIVERSITY
The Australian Academy of Science and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, organised the Australia-Japan Workshop on Biotechnology, which was held at the Academy on 27 and 28 October.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together leading researchers from both countries in order to continue to strengthen bilateral co-operative research links in areas of mutual priority. Twenty Australian and Japanese researchers presented on the theme of biodiversity across three topics: informatics of rare animals and plants; biodiscovery of chemical ecology in plants and animals; and investigation, conservation and utilisation of Australian and Japanese bio-resources and ecosystem.
The Japanese delegation attended a series of site visits at James Cook University in Townsville at the completion of the workshop.:
