INVITED LECTURES

John McArthur  Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, U.K.
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
William R. Cullen  Department of Chemistry, UBC, Canada 
Lecture topic: Arsenic in Medicine: Ancient and Modern.
Ronald Oremland  US Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: Geomicrobiology of Arsenic in Extreme Environments
Laurent Charlet Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Grenoble-I, France
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
   
Marie Vahter  Division of Metals & Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Lecture topic: Health effects of early-life exposure to arsenic
Chien-Jen Chen  Genomic Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Chen-Wuing Liu  Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, NTU, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
D. Kirk Nordstrom  US Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
Lecture topic: Geothermal Arsenic
Dave Polya  School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, U.K. 
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Zhaohui Li  Geology Department and Chemistry Department, University of Wisconsin - Parkside , U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Richard H. Loeppert  Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: Arsenic in rice -- the challenges of agricultural sustainability and food security
Yong Guan Zhu  Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Eco-environmental Sciences, China 
Lecture topic: Managing arsenic in paddy soils to reduce human exposure to arsenic in rice
Markus Grafe 
Lecture topic: The role of common metal contaminants on arsenic speciation in soils and common soil minerals
Yan Zheng  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, U.S.A.
Lecture topic: Arsenic: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
Allan Smith  University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. 
Lecture topic: The extraordinary impact of early life exposure to arsenic in drinking water on mortality from several cancer and non-cancer causes of death in young adults
Chi-Ling Chen  Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Hung-Yi Chiou  School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Tsair-Fuh Lin  Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Ming-Kuang Wang  Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Arsenic and Lead (Beudantite) Contaminated the Agricultural Rice Soils in the Guandu Plain, Northern Taiwan
How-Ran Guo  Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lecture topic: (to be announced)
Shu-Li Wang  National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Lecture topic: Total arsenic and arsenic speciation in human biospecimens
   
Arun B. Mukherjee D.Sc., Senior Research Scientist, Environmental Sciences, Department of Biological and
Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Lecture topic: (to be announced)