Announcement of “Kingman Symposium” on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 in London

We, Kimura Fund, will host Kimura Motoo Award Ceremony and accompanying symposium to honor Sir John Kingman FRS, recipient of 2018 Kimura Motoo Award as follows.

 There is no registration fee. Please contact Naruya Saitou (saitounr@nig.ac.jp) if you are interested to attend these two. 

Committee members of Kimura Fund (officially “The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promortion of Evolutionary Biology”)

Takashi Gojobori, Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (chair) 

Kenichi Aoki, Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo 

Naoyuki Takahata, Emeritus Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan 

Yoshio Tateno, Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Naruya Saitou, Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Kimura Fund Website (mostly in Japanese): http://kimura-kikin.com

=== 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 of 2018 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 FRS
      Professor, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Dr. Yun-Xin Fu
      Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at 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, UK
      Adjunct 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 of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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 Break

Session 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 Break

Session 3 (chaired by Dr. Yoshio Tateno)

16:30-17:00
The coalescent in a cancer cell population
Dr. Hideki Innan

17:00-17:30
High-speed construction of gene genealogies using newly developed distance matrix methods
Dr. Naruya Saitou

17:30-18:00
An incomplete lineage sorting issue on Japanese Emperor’s evolutionary study of goby fish populations
Dr. Takashi Gojobori

18:30-20:00 Dinner (invited people only)

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Contact person:SAITOU Naruya
Professor, Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics Mishima, Japan
Professor (concurrent), Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Professor (concurrent), Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo
Member (concurrent), Science Council of Japan
P.I., MEXT Yaponesian Genome Project FY 2018-2022

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