IPB in 3rd Roundtable Meeting UGSAS-GU (United Graduate School of Agricultural Science-Gifu University) http://news.ipb.ac.id Posted by admin on 27 August 2014 Roundtable meeting and third symposium of United Graduate School of Agricultural Science-Gifu University (UGSAS-GU), was held on 4-6 August 2014, in Gifu Miyako Hotel and Gifu University. This activity was presented by 12 universities namely; University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Assam University (India), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (India), Andalas University (Indonesia), Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia), Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Sebelas Maret University (Indonesia), Gifu University (Japan), Shizuoka University (Japan), Kasetsart University (Thailand), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam) and two observer universities namely Lampung University (Indonesia) and Guangxi University (China). Prof. Dr. Ir. Latifah K. Darusman, M.S. was appointed as the guest professor from IPB for the third symposium activity of UGSAS-GU. IPB was the member which was involved in the International Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia for the Doctoral Education in Agricultural Science and Biotechnology (IC-GU12), since the first meeting in 2012. In the meeting in 2014, IPB was represented by Dean of Postgraduate, Dr.Ir. Dahrul Syah, M.Sc.Agr and Dr. Irmanida Batubara, S.Si, M.Si. In the third symposium of IC-GU12, some activities were agreed amongst them: • Making the MoA for dual degree program or double degree program for S3 among the gathered universities. • Accepting the students of S3 from each university in the sandwich program. • Accepting lecturers, researchers and students of S3 from Gifu University to conduct the sandwich activity or joint research to other universities, or otherwise from other universities to Gifu University. • Carrying out the cooperation of station laboratory in the member universities. • Conducting the research cooperative activity among the member universities and also with the related industry. • Appointing the lecturer/researcher as the guest professor/guest associate professor. • Developing the "Reviews in Agricultural Science" as the scientific platform. Following up the composing the MoA dual degree and the development plan of the station laboratory in IPB located in the Study Center of Biopharmaca, the team from Gifu University represented by Prof. Haruya Kato, Prof. Dr. Tohru Mitsunaga, Mrs Yoshida, andMs Kakizoe, visited to IPB dated 12-14 August 2014. The station laboratory provided in IPB was the station laboratory in the field of natural material. The station laboratory was planned to be used in September 2014. In developing the journal of "Reviews in Agricultural Science", the entire students and the lecturers of IPB were invited to be able to send the reviewing article to this journal. Whereas the link for this journal was http://www.agrsci.jp/ras/issue/current. .