To Julio and Aisyah, we congratulate them on their incredible achievements, and we hope that they will continue to inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with the same passion and determination.[aulia]
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The Nusantara Orchid Biodiversity Show (NOBiS), which is a series of orchid photography competitions and annual webinar, is being held again by the Biology Orchid Study Club (BiOSC), Faculty of Biology, UGM. This webinar is held online with the aim of educating and providing training to the younger generation through seminars and activities workshop. This year’s orchid photography competition has the theme “Orchid Odyssey: Revealing the Extraordinary Journey of Orchids Through The Past, Present, and Future”. A total of 56 participants took part in the orchid photography competition by submitting their work on 7 – 17 May 2024. The results of the participants’ photography work are then displayed in the form of a virtual exhibition via ArtSteps which can be accessed by all participants. The winners of the orchid photography competition at the NOBiS event were Dary Saka Fitrady as First Place, Imaduddin Akhyar Kusumaperdana as Second Place, Yosvaldo Gerry Setiono Putra as Third Place, and Muhammad Nadhif Al Sulthony as Favorite Champion, which was announced at the peak event of the 2024 NOBiS.
The orchid photography competition has a positive impact on sustainable development. Webinar and photography competitions can contribute to the appreciation of biodiversity, which is in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 12: Responsible consumption and production, 15: Life on Land, and 17: Partnership to achieve goals. Orchid photography is an effort that can be used as a tool to visualize biodiversity and help remind us of the beauty of nature and the importance of protecting the environment.
NOBiS webinar event this year carries the theme “Orchid Odyssey: Revealing the Extraordinary Journey of Orchids Through The Past, Present, and Future” with the implementation time on 1st June 2024 at 09.30 online and attended by 144 participants. The NOBiS 2024 webinar aims to provide a means for the public to learn and understand the preservation of orchids in Indonesia through genome editing and tissue culture propagation techniques. Therefore, this year, BiOSC invited three speakers who have become experts in the field of orchids in Indonesia, namely Prof. Dr. Endang Semiarti, M.S., M.Sc., Prof. Dr. Dewi Kusuma, S.P., M.Si., and Dr. André Schuiteman.
Prof. Dr. Endang Semiarti, M.S., M.Sc. is a head of Laboratory of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology Universitas Gadjah Mada and has research focus on plant tissue culture, plant molecular genetics, plant biotechnology, orchidology, cell and molecular biology. On this occasion, he shared insights regarding Indonesian Orchid Plant breeding with the application of Genome Editing. Current orchid populations in nature are decreasing due to natural disasters, illegal logging, and domestication for collection, decoration, and also for herbal medicine. So we need Ex situ and In situ conservation efforts such as genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 system as the cheapest and easiest to apply technology, having a revolutionary impact on basic research to study gene function and plant breeding to produce new orchids with plenty of seedlings and early flowering.
Orchid production and conservation also can be supported by the method of plant tissue culture, its delivered by Prof. Dr. Dewi Sukma, S.P., M.Si. as a professor of Agronomy and Horticulture department of Agronomy and Horticulture Faculty of Agriculture IPB University and have research interest in plant genetic diversity, breeding and cultivar development and also in plant genetic engineering. Orchid need tissue culture because its lack of seed endosperm so it can provide a higher number of seedling and provide a sterile ad healthy propagules, tissue culture can be an independent breeding of time and season and also can facilitated the in vitro breeding to maintain the existence and availability of Indonesian orchid for future research and potential uses.
The last topic delivered by Dr. André the research leader in the Asia team of Royal Botanic Garden United Kingdom with the research focus on Taxonomy, Conservation and Evolution of Orchidaceae. The diversity of Indonesian orchid is about 26000 species in 800 genera, but not easy to tell because many species are poorly understood, especially the distribution of species in Borneo and New Guinea. The existence and availability of Indonesian orchid should be maintained because there is a lot of diversity and distribution of it such as Dimorphorchis lowii and Paraphalaenopsis laycockii from Borneo, Bulbophyllum muricatum and Dendrobium azureum from Tanah Papua.
It is hoped that the informative webinar material will broaden the knowledge of orchid lovers as well as introduce BiOSC to the outside as a study group that focuses on orchids with the jargon of “Tumbuh, Berkembang, Lestari”. Nusantara Orchid Biodiversity Show (NOBiS) National Photography Competition
2024: “Orchid Odyssey: Revealing the Extraordinary Journey of Orchids Through The Past, Present, and Future” expected to inspire and encourage deeper understanding of history, uniqueness, preservation, and future challenges faced by orchids. Through photography, Participants are expected to be able to express messages about the existence of orchids in the past, present and future. [Author: BiOSC]
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News Release Friday, 31 May 2024
In an effort to enhance the quality of human resources and strengthen the Tridharma of Universitas Gadjah Mada in 2024, one of the faculty members of the Faculty of Biology, Ganies Riza Aristya, S.Si., M.Sc., Ph.D., received funding to participate in a Professor Exchange Program between Universitas Gadjah Mada and the National Chengchi University (NCCU) College of Science, Taiwan. On this occasion, Dr. Ganies was accompanied by two Fast-track Master’s students, Lucia Arum Sekar Meysari, S.Si., and Azizah Tyas Nugrahanty, S.Si. This program is funded by the Directorate of Partnerships and Global Relations. The activity is supported by a proposal entitled “Increasing the Production of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) as a Biodegradable Biopolymer Plastic through Recombinant Plasmid Transformation.”
The Joint Supervisor visit to NCCU Taiwan took place from May 27th to June 1st, 2024. This program is one of the collaborations between Universitas Gadjah Mada and National Chengchi University in the form of professor exchanges. The activity began with an introduction session by the dean of the College of Science (Professor Hsing Luh) followed by introductions and research topic presentations by the representatives from UGM’s Biology department, Dr. Ganies. The results of this visit included the establishment of short-term and long-term collaboration agreements, including the signing of a memorandum of agreement, mentoring, research development collaboration and publication, also the creation of an international community.
With this program, it is evident that the Faculty of Biology is committed to supporting efforts to strengthen Universitas Gadjah Mada’s ranking in the field of outstanding sciences related to UGM’s contributions to knowledge and humanity. This goal is related to SDG number 8 on education. By providing easier international access, this program can also expand Universitas Gadjah Mada’s international cooperation and future orientation. Our gratitude goes to Professor Hsing Luh, Professor Chih-Kai Yang, Professor Ming-Huan Chan, Professor Shau-Kwaun Chen, and all the staff of the College of Science NCCU, who have provided us with the opportunity to collaborate in the 2024 Joint Supervisor activity.
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