Special Lecture Series
《Hometown of Fossils, Paradise of Animals》 Prof. Chun-Hsiang Chang
Doctor of Paleontology at the University of London, UK.
Research fellow in the Geology Section of the National Museum of Natural Science.
Adjunct professor at Taiwan University and Tunghai University.
《Novel insights into vertebrate paleontology in Taiwan》Associate Professor Cheng-Hsiu Tsai
PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Associate Professor of Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University.
受邀講者
Dr. Ai Kawamura
Current position:
Lecturer of University of Toyama (Japan)
Paper Title:
Quaternary land mammal faunas in the Ryukyu Islands with discussion on the relation to those in Tawain.
Dr. Allan Gil S. Fernando
Current position：
Professor, National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines.
Paper Title:
Bridging Fossil Frontiers: Insights from New Fossil Localities in the Philippines and Their Significance to Paleontological Research in Taiwan and the West Pacific Region.
Dr. Antoine Souron
Current position：
Assistant professor at the University of Bordeaux, France, in the laboratory PACEA (prehistory and biological anthropology), where he leads the research team EVODIBIO (Evolution and Biological Diversity).
Paper Title:
An overview of the evolutionary history of Metridiochoerus (Artiodactyla, Suidae ) and an expansion of its known geographic range into Eurasia (India, Pakistan, Taiwan).
高健為 研究員
Current position：
脊椎動物古生物學會（SVP）的榮譽（退休）會員、倫敦林奈學會會員，並於伯克利的古生物博物館做志願者
Paper Title:
台灣上新世的異犬
Dr. Kodai Iwasaki
Current position：
PhD student at Osaka Metropolitan University
Paper Title:
Holocene terraces along the Tsailiao River: Lithofacies, chronology, and fossil assemblages in the terrace deposits, and neotectonic implications.
王曉鳴 教授
Current position：
Curator and
Researcher at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.
Paper Title:
Ancestral woolly rhinoceros in Tibet suggest megafaunal origins in high elevation.
Dr. Takumi Tsutaya
Current position：Assistant Professor, Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan.
Paper Title:
Introduction to deep-time palaeoproteomics.
曾志傑 教授
Current position：
Associate Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Paper Title:
A renewed framework for understanding the tempo and mode of sabertooth evolution.
Dr. Yoshinari Kawamura
Current position：
1) Professor Emeritus of Aichi University of Education (Japan)
2) Visiting researcher of Osaka Museum of Natural History
3) Part-time Lecturer of Chukyo University (Japan)
Paper Title:
Fossils of the bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica) from the early Middle Pleistocene of the Tsailiao area in Tainan, southern Taiwan: An example proving the importance of the area from a viewpoint of micro-mammalian paleontology.
Dr. Yousuke Kaifu
Current position：
Professor in The University Museum at The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Paper title:
The first primate to reach the islands of Okinawa
Dr. Yuri Kimura
Current position：
Curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan.
Paper Title:
Old but new: stable carbon isotopes as a tool in vertebrate paleontology
Dr. Masanaru Takai
Current position：
Researcher at The Kyoto University Museum.
Paper Title:
Pleistocene primate fauna in Taiwan: survival of macaques and extinction of colobine
Dr. Yuji Takakuwa
Current position：
Researcher at the Gunma Museum of Natural History, Japan.
Paper Title:
Research perspectives for the Cenozoic chondrichthyan fossils in the Western Pacific region
Dr. Naoki Kohno
Current position：
Researcher at National Museum of Nature and Science,Tokyo.
Paper Title:
coming soon…