DAY 1, 20 May 2021 (Thursday)
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8:00am
Registration
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9:00am
Doa’ resitation
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9:15am
Opening address by the Vice Chancellor of University Malaysia Terengganu and launching of ‘bee plant campaign’ in conjunction with the 2021 World Bee Day celebration.
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9:45am
Keynote address: Current development of stingless bee industry in Malaysia
Speaker: Prof Dr. Shamsul Bahri Abdul Razak, Head of Special Interest Group for Apis and Meliponine UMT, Malaysia.
THEME 1: CURRENT DEVELOPMENT IN MELIPONICULTURE
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11:00am
Talk 2: Current issues, Challenges, and Prospects on Stingless bee industry in Thailand
Plenary speaker: Dr Bajaree Chuttong, Meliponini and Apini Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
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11:30am
Talk 3: Meliponiculture development in Indonesia
Plenary Speaker: Prof. Dr. Siti Salmah binti Idrose (Universiti Andalas, Indonesia).
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12:00am
Talk 4: Philippine Meliponiculture: Trends, Challenges, and Prospects
Plenary Speaker: Amelia R. Nicolas, PhD, Associate Professor and Former Director of the Regional Apiculture Center, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Philippine.
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12:30pm
Talk 5: Trehalulosa sugar in stingless bee honey – a new discovery
Invited Speaker: Dr. Norhasnida Zawawi, Faculty of Food Science & Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia.
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1:00pm
Lunch break
THEME 2: INNOVATION / PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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2:30pm
Talk 6: Bee Pampered and Bee Powered Stingless Bee Product Development of the UPLB
Bee Program
Invited Speaker: Professor Aimee Lyn A. Dupo-Barrion, Professor and Former Coordinator
of the UPLB Bee Program, University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), Philippine.
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3:00pm
Talk 7: Optimization of bioactive compounds and yield in the production of Tetragonula
laeviceps species complex geopropolis extract using water and olive oil as solvent
Speaker: Miss Chee Yi Jie, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore.
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3:30pm
Talk 8: Product development of Stingless bee propolis for COVID-19 therapy
Invited Speaker: Dr. M. Sahlan, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia.
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4:00pm
Talk 9: Accelerated wound healing of physically cross linked gellan gum hydrogel
containing honey
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Khairul Mat Amin, UMT, Malaysia.
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5:00pm
Adjourn
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Day 2, 21 May 2021 (Friday)
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8:00am
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THEME 3: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT / KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
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9:00am
Talk 10: Establishment of a Community-Based Beekeeping Enterprise
Plenary Speaker: Prof. Dr. Cleo R. Cervancia, PhD, Professor Emeritus (UPLB) and President of Apimondia Regional Commission for Asia, Philippine.
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9:30am
Talk 11: An overview of Apiculture practices and prospects in Northeast India
Invited Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gurusubramanayam, Mizoram University, Mizoram, India.
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10:00am
Talk 12: Effect of maltodextrin - gum arabic mixes on the physicochemical and bioactive properties of freeze dried geopropolis (Tetragonula laeviceps species complex)
Speaker: Miss Nuha Binte Iesa, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore.
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10:30am
Tea break
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11:00am
Talk 13: Meliponiculture as a platform to help indigeneous people
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abi Malaysia.
THEME 4: SUSTAINABLE MELIPONICULTURE
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11:30am
Talk 14: Invitro propagation of stingless bee.
Invited Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wahizatul Afzan Azmi UMT, Malaysia.
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12:00pm
Lunch break
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2:30pm
Talk 15: Identification of Lepidotrigona by using male characters
Speaker: Dr Korawat Attasopa, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
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3:00pm
Talk 16: Male swarms of four species of stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) in the northern part of Thailand
Speaker: Mrs. Kanokwan Klaithin, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
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3:30pm
Talk 17: Approach for the domestication and propagation of stingless bee
Invited speaker: Prof. Dr. Ali Agus. Dean of Fac. Husbandry Gajah Mada University, Jokyakarta.
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4:00pm
Closing address by the Vice Chancellor of Chiang Mai University.
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4:30pm
Adjourn