根井正利博士（ペンシルベニア州立大学教授）の2013年「京都賞」受賞を記念して、遺伝研にて研究集会が開催されました。
Title: Molecular Evolution at All Fields of Biology
Summary:
NIG Conference
Name: Molecular Evolution at All Fields of Biology
Organizer: Koichiro Tamura (Tokyo Metropolitan University) and Naruya Saitou
(National Institute of Genetics)
Date and time: 9:50-17:00, Friday, November 8, 2013
Place: NIG Auditorium, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima
Conference Program
10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks
Session 1: chaired by Kazuho Ikeo (NIG /SOKENDAI)
10:05-10:35 Heteromorphic self-incompatibility in buckwheat - Evolutionary
perspectives
Tatsuya Ota (SOKENDAI)
10:35-11:05 Evolution of microsatellite DNA
Naoko Takezaki (Kagawa Univ.)
Session 2: chaired by Takeshi Itoh (National Institute of Agrobiological
Sciences)
11:05-11:35 Search for ancestral genes of the neural system and sensory
organs
Takashi Gojobori (KAUST/NIG)
Session 3: chaired by Naruya Saitou (NIG/SOKENDAI)
11:35-12:05 Highly dimorphic diversity of V1R receptor genes on sex
chromosome of East-African cichlids
Norihiro Okada (National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan)
12:05-12:35 Admixture and sub-structure among ethnic populations of India
Partha Majumder (National Institute of Biomedical
Genomics, India)
12:35-13:45 Lunch (at NIG Guest House)
Session 4: chaired by Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Nagoya City Univ.)
13:45-14:15 Evolution of structure and regulation in Drosophila
antimicrobial peptide genes
Koichiro Tamura (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
14:15-14:45 Human coding RNA editing is generally nonadaptive
George Zhang (Univ. Michigan, U.S.A.)
Session 5: chaired by Yoko Satta (SOKENDAI)
14:45-15:15 Markov chain method in population genetics
Fumio Tajima (Univ. Tokyo)
15:15-15:45 The role of mutation at life's origin
William Martin (Dusseldorf University, Germany)
15:45-16:00 Tea Break
Session 6: chaired by Yoshio Tateno (DGIST/NIG)
16:00-17:00 Survival of the fittest and survival of the niche-filling
variants
Masatoshi Nei (Penn State University, U.S.A.)
