Crafoord Days 2015

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.