The 2013 Kyoto Prize Workshops

From Molecular Population Genetics to Comparative Genomics

Masatoshi Nei

/　　Evolutionary Biologist

Basic Sciences

Biological Sciences（Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment）

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2013

11 /12 Tue

13:00 - 16:50

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:00

Opening Address	Yoh Iwasa

Introduction of Laureate	Takashi Gojobori (Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Project Professor, National Institute of Genetics)

Laureate’s Lecture	Masatoshi Nei (the Laureate in Basic Sciences) “Darwinism and a New Theory of Mutation-driven Evolution”

Lecture	Naruya Saitou (Professor, National Institute of Genetics) “Human Evolution and Origin of Japonesian”

	Intermission

Lecture	Yoko Satta (Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) “The Polymorphism and Evolutionary Rate of MHC Genes and the Maintenance Mechanism”

Lecture	Koichiro Tamura (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University) “Bioinformatics in Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis”

Lecture	Mitsuyasu Hasebe (Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences) “Evolution of Genome, Body Plan, and Carnivory in Land Plants”

16:50

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Laureates

Masatoshi Nei

Evolutionary Biologist

Dr. Masatoshi Nei made it possible to discuss evolutionary divergence, genetic diversity, and the mode of selection on genes in a quantitative manner by devising diverse statistical methods such as Nei’s genetic distance, and applying them to molecular data. Using these methods, Dr. Nei’s research has yielded important contributions to molecular evolutionary biology, as well as many other academic disciplines including ecology and conservation biology.

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date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator and Moderator: Yoh Iwasa (Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Kyushu University)

: Organized by Inamori Foundation
: Supported by Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, NHK
: With the cooperation of Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, Japanese Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, The Anthropological Society of Nippon, The Botanical Society of Japan, The Ecological Society of Japan, The Genetics Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Human Genetics, The Society of Evolutionary Studies, The Society of Population Ecology, The Society for the Study of Species Biology