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:
  • 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
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