The Crafoord Days 2015 were celebrated in Stockholm and Lund from 5 to 7 May. They opened on Tuesday with the Prize Symposium followed by the Prize Award Ceremony on Wednesday in the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden, both at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. On Thursday, the Crafoord Prize Lecture was held at Lund University.
Progress of the near-neutrality concept in evolution
Crafoord Prize Lecture with Tomoko Ohta, Crafoord Laureate 2015, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan. Introduction by Ove Eriksson, Chairman of the Prize Committee 2015.
Genotype to phenotype link and nearneutrality in evolution
Lecture from the Prize Symposium in Biosciences – Genetic variation in natural populations, with Tomoko Ohta, Crafoord Laureate 2015. Introduction by Hans Ellegren, the Crafoord Prize Committee and Uppsala University, Sweden. Opening address by Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Press photos
Back row from the left: Barbara Cannon, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Staffan Normark, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Ove Eriksson, Chairman of the Prize Committee in Biosciences; Walter Fischer. Front row from the left: Crafoord Laureate in Biosciences 2015 Tomoko Ohta; H.M. the King of Sweden; H.M. the Queen of Sweden; Ebba Fischer, Chairwoman of the Crafoord Foundation. Photo: Markus Marcetic, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Tomoko Ohta, Prize Symposium 5 May 2015. Photo: Sara Gustavsson, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Tomoko Ohta receives the Crafoord Prize from the hands of His Majesty the King of Sweden, at the Prize Award Ceremony 6 May 2015. Photo: Markus Marcetic, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Andrew Berry, representing Laureate Richard Lewontin, receives the Crafoord Prize 2015 from the hands of His Majesty the King of Sweden., at the Prize Award Ceremony 6 May 2015. Photo: Markus Marcetic, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
