Topics / EVENT PROGRAM OF THE 2009 KYOTO PRIZE - Workshop - Basic Sciences

Symposium
"Evolution, Speciation and Long-Term Field Study"

DATE: Thursday, November 12, 2009

PLACE: Kyoto International Conference Center

Coordinator and Moderator: Yoh Iwasa [Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University]

13:00
Opening Address
Yoh Iwasa
 
Introduction of Laureates
Nanako Shigesada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University]
 
Laureate Lecture
Peter Raymond Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences)
Barbara Rosemary Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences)
"Evolution of Darwin's Finches"
 
Lecture
Hiroshi Nakamura [Professor, Faculty of Education, Shinshu University]
"Cuckoo—Rapid Evolution of Egg-Mimicry—"
 
Lecture
Tetsukazu Yahara [Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University]
"Floral Adaptation to Insect Pollinators: An Experimental Study in Daylilies"
 
Lecture
Makoto Kato [Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University]
"Obligate Pollination Mutualism Discovered in Phyllanthaceae: Rapid Synergistic Diversification of the Partners"
 
Lecture
Norihiro Okada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology]
"Search for the Mechanisms of Rapid Speciation of Victorian Cichlids"
17:10
Closing
 

 
Organized by Inamori Foundation
 
Supported by Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, and NHK
 
With the cooperation of The Ecological Society of Japan, Japan Ethological Society, The Ornithological Society of Japan, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan, The Society of Population Ecology, The Society for the Study of Species Biology, The Zoological Society of Japan

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