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Programme

Conference & Workshops

BECoME-2025 Conference Days

19 -23 Aug

Tue - Sat

Please click on the BECoME-2025 Conference Programme to download.

Updated on 25 August, 2025

BECoME Conference

Opening Ceremony Officiating Guests

Anderson Ho Cheung Shum

City University of Hong Kong

Chin Wah Tse

Environment and Ecology Bureau HKSAR Government

Mickey Kin Ming Lai 

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department HKSAR Government

Plenary Speakers

Minhan Dai

Xiamen University

Brendan Godley

University of Exeter

Peter Mumby

University of Queensland

Anchana Prathep

Prince of Songkla University

Keynote Speakers

Rong Bi

Ocean University of China

Philip Boyd

Bryan W. Brooks

Suchana Chavanich

Baylor University

University of Tasmania

Chulalongkorn University

Siu Gin Cheung

Kyungho Choi

Sinead Collins

The University of Edinburgh

Seoul National University

City University of Hong Kong

Katherine Dafforn

University of Massachusetts Boston

Yunwei Dong

Ocean University of China

Sam Dupont

University of Gothenburg

Louise Firth

University College Cork

Jay Jianying Gan

University of California, Riverside

Jason Hall-Spencer

University of Plymouth

Benjamin Horton

City University of Hong Kong

Jerome Ho Lam Hui

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

David Hutchins

University of Southern California

Jong Seong Khim

Seoul National University

Kenneth Mei Yee Leung

City University of Hong Kong

Dongyan Liu

East China Normal University

Wenhua Liu

Shantou University

Jianwen Qiu

Hong Kong Baptist University

James Davis Reimer

University of the Ryukyus

Daniel Schlenk

University of California, Riverside

Simon Thrush

The University of Auckland

Peter Todd

National University of Singapore

Ming Hung Wong

The Education University of Hong Kong

Yunrong Yan

Guangdong Ocean University

Yang Yang

Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Moriaki Yasuhara

The University of Hong Kong

Xiaowei Zhang

Yunnan University

Invited Speakers

Leo Lai Chan

City University of Hong Kong

Su Yin Chee

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Apple Pui Yi Chui

Peter Dillingham

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

University of Otago

James Kar Hei Fang

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Patrick Kwan Hon Lee

City University of Hong Kong

Christina McGraw

University of Otago

Celia Schunter

The University of Hong Kong

Ichiro Takeuchi

Ehime University

Mridul K. Thomas

University of Geneva

Ling Ming Tsang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Peng Zhao

Hainan University

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