Plenary Lectures / Special Symposium
Plenary Lectures
Masatoshi Nei Lecture
- Date/Time:
- 09:00~10:00, Monday, July 9
- Room:
- Main Hall
- Speaker:
- William Martin (Institut for Molecular Evolution)
- Lecture title:
- In search of microbe number one
Plenary Lecture 1
- Date/Time:
- 9:00~10:00, Tuesday, July 10
- Room:
- Main Hall
- Speaker:
- Tetsuji Kakutani (The University of Tokyo / National Institute of Genetics)
- Lecture title:
- Evolution of sequence-specific anti-silencing systems in Arabidopsis
Plenary Lecture 2
- Date/Time:
- 16:00~17:00, Thursday, July 12
- Room:
- Main Hall
- Speaker:
- Anne C. Stone (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)
- Lecture title:
- Tracking a killer: using ancient DNA to understand the evolutionary history of tuberculosis
Special Symposium : Symposium for the 50th Anniversary of the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
SMBE 2018 at Yokohama is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the landmark paper by Motoo Kimura (1968) who proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution. For this occasion, a special symposium will take place to commemorate his achievement.
- Date/Time:
- 16:00~18:30 Tuesday, July 10
- Room:
- 3F 301
- Organizers:
- Takashi Gojobori, Naruya Saitou, Hideki Innan
- Invited Speakers:
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- Daniel L. Hartl (Harvard University)
Lecture title: Becoming Motoo Kimura - Tomoko Ohta (National Institute of Genetics)
Lecture title: Epigenetics, Chromatin, Gene Activity and Near-Neutrality in Evolution - Warren Ewens (University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture title: My memories of Kimura and the neutral theory. - Yun Song (UC Berkeley)
Lecture title: New mathematical insights into the regulation and optimization of translation dynamics
- Daniel L. Hartl (Harvard University)