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Nominations are requested for the Akira Okubo Prize which, for 2009, will be awarded to a living senior scientist whose lifetime achievements have been exemplary in developing innovative theory, establishing superb conceptual ideas, solving difficult theoretical problems, and/or for uniting theory and data to advance a biological subject. The areas of research are mathematical biology, bio-mathematics, theoretical biology, and biological oceanography. The prize is jointly awarded by the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (JSMB) and the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). The SMB would like to invite the prize winner to deliver a lecture at the next annual SMB meeting, which will be held in Vancouver (Canada) from July 27-30, 2009 (http://www.math.ubc.ca/Research/MathBio/SMB2009/index.shtml). The JSMB will invite the winner to deliver a lecture at the next annual JSMB meeting, which will be held in Tokyo (Japan) from September 9-11, 2009.

Rules for the prize can be found at http://www.smb.org/prizes/index.shtml and http://www.smb.org/prizes/okubo.shtml

The prize was initiated in 1999 and the previous winners in the senior scientist category have been Simon A. Levin (2001) and James D. Murray (2005).

To nominate a person for the Akira Okubo Prize, the following Information should be submitted to Fugo Takasu VIA EMAIL, email: takasu@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp

1. Name, address, phone number, affiliation, and email address and/or fax number of the nominator.
2. Name, address, phone number, affiliation, and email address and/or fax number of the nominee.
3. A detailed statement describing why the nominee should be considered for the award.
4. A CV for the nominee in some form.
5. Name and contact information, including email address, for four potential referees who are not current or recent collaborators of the nominee. Furthermore, the nomination package may include up to two additional letters of support.

Closing date for nominations is February 27th 2009.

Akira Okubo 2009 Prize Nomination Committee:
Avner Friedman, e-mail: afriedman@mbi.osu.edu
Mark Chaplain, e-mail: chaplain@maths.dundee.ac.uk
Thomas Hillen, e-mail: thillen@ualberta.ca
Hisao Nakajima, e-mail: nakajima@se.ritsumei.ac.jp
Hisashi Inaba, e-mail: inaba@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Fugo Takasu (Chair), e-mail: takasu@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp

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