【report】 2018 Kimura Motoo Award
by The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for
the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology=== Kimura Motoo Award Ceremony ===Time: 11:00-13:00, Sunday, January 20th, 2019
Place: Royal Society Kohn Centre and Marble Hall, London, U.K.
Program
11:00-11:20 Kimura Motoo Award delivered to Sir John Kingman FRS
11:20-12:00 Speech by Sir John Kingman FRS
12:00-13:00 Buffet Lunch=== Accompanying Symposium to honor Sir John Kingman FRS, recipient of2018 Kimura Motoo Award ===Time: 13:00-18:00, Sunday, January 20th, 2019
Place: Royal Society Kohn Centre and Marble Hall, London, U.K.
Symposium Speakers
Dr. Peter Donnelly FRSProfessor, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKDr. Yun-Xin Fu
Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Centerat Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Visiting Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Dr. Takashi Gojobori
Professor, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Dr. Robert C. Griffiths FRS
Emeritus Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKAdjunct Professor in Mathematical Sciences at Monash University, Australia
Dr. Jotun Hein
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Dr. Hideki Innan
Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan
Dr. Naruya Saitou
Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics,Mishima, Japan
Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, Graduate
University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Japan
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School ofScience, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanP1

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Dr. John Wakeley
Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dr. Ziheng Yang
Professor, University College of London; London, UK
Visiting Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Symposium Program
13:00-13:05 Greetings from Kimura Fund (by Dr. Takashi Gojobori)Session 1 (chaired by Dr. Takashi Gojobori)
13:05-13:35
Diffusion processes and Coalescent trees
Dr. Robert Griffiths FRS
13:35-14:05
Recombination, meiosis, and the origin of a species
Dr. Peter Donnelly FRS
14:05-14:35
A simple application of coalescent modeling to phylogenetic data
Dr. John Wakeley
14:35-14:50 Tea BreakSession 2 (chaired by Dr. Naruya Saitou)
14:50-15:20
The multispecies coalescent and its applications
Dr. Ziheng Yang
15:20-15:50 The Coalescent and Recombination
Dr. Jotun Hein
15:50-16:20
Within individual coalescence
Dr. Yun-Xin Fu
16:20-16:30 Tea BreakSession 3 (chaired by Dr. Yoshio Tateno)
16:30-17:00
The coalescent in a cancer cell population
Dr. Hideki Innan

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

17:00-17:30
High-speed construction of gene genealogies using newly developed distancematrix methods
Dr. Naruya Saitou
17:30-18:00
An incomplete lineage sorting issue on Japanese Emperor’s evolutionary studyof goby fish populations
Dr. Takashi Gojobori
18:30-20:00 Dinner (invited people only)

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the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology

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