November 30, 2023

【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Symposium,Ceremony, and Party
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Symposium 13:00 - 17:00
Ceremony
17:00 - 17:45
Banquet18:00 - 19:30
Venue: TKP Shinagawa Conference Center
Symposium and Awards Ceremony: 10F
Award Party: 7th floor of the same venueAwardee：Dr. William F. Martin
Professor, Heinrich Heine Universität, Dusseldorf, Germany
Awardee's Title
The outstanding works on "early evolution of eukaryoticorganisms."
RecommendationsDr. William F. Martin has significantly advanced our understanding of
biological evolution by proposing an innovative hypothesis on the origin oflife and uncovering the crucial role of horizontal gene transfer in thegenome evolution of bacteria, archaea, and the early stages of eukaryotes.

Dr. Richard R. Hudson
Professor-Emeritus, University of Chicago, USA
Awardee's Title
The outstanding works on "the coalescence theory withancestral recombination"
Recommendations

Dr. Richard R. Hudson, a key figure in coalescent theory, made substantial
contributions by theoretically examining and programming the ancestralrecombination graph (ARG) with an early incorporation of the effects ofgenetic recombination. The program he developed, known as ms (makingsamples), was organized and released in 2002. Widely utilized for testing theneutrality hypothesis, ARG and ms form the foundational theories and tools
essential for analyzing today's extensive nuclear genome sequence data.

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November 30, 2023

【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Symposium(TKP Shinagawa Conference Center, 10th floor)
Chair: Kenichi Aoki13:00-13:10 Opening remarks by Takashi Gojobori
13:10-13:50 Award Lecture
William F. Martin (Heinrich Heine Univ.)“The roots of our molecular origins: Neutral chemical evolution”
13:50-14:00 Discussion
14:00-14:40 Award Lecture
Richard R. Hudson (Univ. of Chicago)“How I got started with gene genealogies”
14:40-14:50 Discussion
14:50-15:10 Hideki Innan (SOKENDAI)“The coalescent around a biallelic site”
15:10-15:15 Discussion
15:15-15:35 Yoko Satta (SOKENDAI)“Population genomics on the origin of lactose persistence in Europe
and South Asia”
15:35-15:40 Discussion
15:40-16:00 Toshinori Endo (Hokkaido Univ.)“Proposal of de novo gene birth model based on the comprehensive
analysis of yeast multi-omics data”
16:00-16:05 Discussion
16:05-16:25 Toshimichi Ikemura(Nagahama Univ. of Biotechnology)“An unsupervised AI (BLSOM: Batch-learning SOM) for codon andoligonucleotide usage of gene and genome sequences”
16:25-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:40 Closing Remarks Naruya Saitou

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Awardby The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation forthe Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

KKimura Motoo Award Symposium(TKP Shinagawa Conference Center, 10th floor)

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Symposium(TKP Shinagawa Conference Center, 10th floor)

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Ceremony(TKP Shinagawa Conference Center, 10th floor)
Moderator: Yoko Satta
17:00-17:10 Opening Remarks and Explanation of the Judging Process Steering
Committee Chair: Takashi Gojobori
17:10-17:20 Congratulatory speech: Mr. Toshihiro Suzuki, President and CEO,Suzuki Motor Corporation
17:20-17:30（1）Introduction of Awardee: Dr. Naruya Saitou
Dr. William F. Marin
Presentation of Certificate, Trophy, and Prize Money
Dr. Martin’s words
17:30-17:40（2）Introduction of Award: Dr. Naoyuki Takahata
Dr. Richard R. Hudson Presentation of Certificate, Trophy, and Prize Money
Dr. Hudson’s words
17:40-17:45 Closing remarks Dr. Yoshio Tateno

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Symposium(TKP Shinagawa Conference Center, 10th floor)

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Celebration Party
18:00-19:30 Award Party (Shinagawa Conference Center, 7th floor.
Standing buffet style at this time)

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

2023 Kimura Motoo Award
Certificate, Trophy,Program,Leaflet
Certificate

TrophyProgram

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation forthe Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

2023 Kimura Motoo Award
Novelty,Display
Novelty

Display2023 Kimura Motoo Award
WEB siteAward Winners Page

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【report】 2023 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

Kimura Motoo Award Symposium,
Ceremony, and Party
Newspaper: THE SHIZUOKA SHIMBUN, October 6, 2023

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