International Seminar: Primate Behavior, Biomedicine and Neurosciences Research
Primate remain essential as an animal model in various studies related to the human phenomenon, such as study on infectious and degenerative diseases, vaccine development, conservation, psychology and behavior as well as interaction between animal and the environment as their habitat. Closer proximity of primates’ nervous system; relatively longer-lifespan, homology and behavior of primate which resemble human- make primate as an ideal model for comparative psychology and evolutionary anthropology as well as neurodegenerative science that cannot be clearly described other animal model. The physiological characteristic and genetic similarities between primate animal and human lead to the use of primate as important animal model for these various studies.
Several studies that have been done conducted in the our Primate Research Centre of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) – in collaboration with national and international institutions partners – revealed the enormous potentials of Indonesian primates as animal model for various strategic human diseases; both infectious, such as malaria, dengue, hepatitis, tuberculosis, HIV, papillomavirus as well as non-infectious, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer, cancer; and its potential for model of stem cells, orthopedic, dentistry, and skin studies.
The high potential of primate to support human health and ecosystem balance urge an effort to conserve their environment/habitat. The main threat for the existence of animal in the wild is related with human activities, such as hunting and habitat destruction due to forest fires, deforestation and forest conversion to plantation or human settlement. These conditions lead to the greater possibility for interaction or contact between primate and human, and therefore easier for transmission of pathogenic agent from animal to human or vice versa. Therefore, conservation program alone will not be adequate to save natural resources, taking into account the increasing interaction between animal and human. As the important part of the integrated human health and ecosystem preservation, the primate conservation need to be considered to create balance and health harmony between human, animal and environment balance (ecohealth).
This seminar is expected to be attended by both national and international participants of government institutes, private sector, and universities, with emphasis to health, medical, veterinary, environment and wildlife conservation. The international participants will be originated from United States, Denmark, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. Selected papers which are presented in this event will be published on national accredited journal such as Jurnal Veteriner, Hayati, ActaVet, and peer-reviewed international’s including American Journal of Primatology, Journal of Medical Primatology, Folia Primatologia and Primates.
The committee invites participants to register as poster presenters with the topic according to the theme of the seminar, Primate Behavior, Biomedicine and Neurosciensices Research for Promoting Better Health. The authors shall certify that the extended abstract submitted to the committee has not been published or presented elsewhere.
The extended abstract must be written in English, font Time New Roman, single line spacing and 11 font size. The extended abstract should contain a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 2500 words. Extended abstracts can contain figures, tables and/or images which are not included in the word count. The references are not included in the word count as well. Page format should be A4 page size with margins 2.5 cm wide from the right, left, top and bottom. Pages should not be numbered.
Please submit your extended abstract in MS Word format directly to pssp.lppm.ipb@gmail.com and cc to uussaepuloh@yahoo.com.
The committee invites participants to register as poster presenters with the topic according to the theme of the seminar, Primate Behavior, Biomedicine and Neurosciensices Research for Promoting Better Health. The authors shall certify that the abstract submitted to the committee has not published or presented elsewhere. Poster should be printed in A0 format in English. Only 20 posters will be accepted and the committee will select for the three best posters among them. The participants are requested to submit the abstract of the poster.The abstract should be written in one paragraph at maximum of 300 words, and consists of title, author(s), author affiliation(s)-full address including department/unit, university/institution, street address, city, postal code, country, and corresponding author (indicate with asterisk). The abstract should be written in single-spaced with 2.5 cm margins, using Times New Roman font with 11 font size. Key words can be provided at maximum five important words.
Please submit your extended abstract in MS Word format directly to pssp.lppm.ipb@gmail.com and cc to uussaepuloh@yahoo.com.
