The 2009 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Evolution, Speciation and Long-Term Field Study

Barbara Rosemary Grant

/　　Evolutionary Biologist

Basic Sciences

Biological Sciences（Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment）

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2009

11 /12 Thu

13:00 - 17:10

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

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Program

13:00

Opening Address	Yoh Iwasa
Introduction of Laureates	Nanako Shigesada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University]
Laureate Lecture	Peter Raymond Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences) Barbara Rosemary Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences) “Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”
Lecture	Hiroshi Nakamura [Professor, Faculty of Education, Shinshu University] “Cuckoo—Rapid Evolution of Egg-Mimicry—”
Lecture	Tetsukazu Yahara [Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University] “Floral Adaptation to Insect Pollinators: An Experimental Study in Daylilies”
Lecture	Makoto Kato [Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University] “Obligate Pollination Mutualism Discovered in Phyllanthaceae: Rapid Synergistic Diversification of the Partners”
Lecture	Norihiro Okada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology] “Search for the Mechanisms of Rapid Speciation of Victorian Cichlids”

17:10

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Laureates

Barbara Rosemary Grant

Evolutionary Biologist

Through the long-term field study more than 35 years on Darwin’s finches on the Galápagos Islands, the Grants demonstrated that morphology and behavior of organisms are altered rapidly by natural selection in response to recurrent environmental changes. Their work has not only made enormous contributions to evolutionary biology and ecology, but also has had a profound influence on the general public through demonstrating the evolution by natural selection in the field.

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date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator and Moderator: Yoh Iwasa [Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University]

: Organized by Inamori Foundation
: Supported by Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, and NHK
: With the cooperation of The Ecological Society of Japan, Japan Ethological Society, The Ornithological Society of Japan, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, The Society of Population Ecology, The Society for the Study of Species Biology, The Zoological Society of Japan