Friday 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. | Informal mixer in Ridgway Center |
Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. | Talks in Ridgway Center |
| John MacKinnon (EU-China Biodiversity Program) | China's floral richness: Is it safe? |
| Jianguo "Jack" Liu (Michigan State University) | Pandas, plants, and people |
| Jun Wen (Smithsonian Institution) | Evolution of plant diversity in China |
| David Boufford (Harvard University) & Hang Sun (Kunming Inst. Bot.) | Hengduan Mountains, China: not all biodiversity is tropical |
| Sushma Reddy (Loyola University Chicago) | Phylogeny and biogeography of birds of China |
| Pu Huang (Washington University in St. Louis) | The domestication of rice |
| Jan Salick (MBG) | Evening Speaker: Global warming and mountain plants |