Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | |
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration |
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Dinner and two keynote talks |
Excavating archaic hominin DNA from the genomes of modern humans Josh Akey, Princeton University |
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The genetic history of Africa based on modern and ancient DNA Carina Schlebusch, Uppsala University |
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8:00 PM | Reception |
Thursday, April 5, 2018 |
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM | Opening Remarks |
9:05 AM - 12:30 PM | Session 1 |
9:05 AM - 9:30 AM |
The origins of the skeletons of Roopkund Lake Éadaoin Harney, Harvard University |
9:30 AM - 9:55 AM |
Temporal dynamics of population seen from the aDNA genomes of Estonia Kristiina Tambets, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia |
9:55 AM - 10:20 AM |
Barbarian Migration and Social Organization in Medieval Europe: A Paleogenomic Approach Eduardo Amorim, University of California Los Angeles |
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM |
Mapping the earliest interactions between hunter-gatherers and farmers in Europe Iain Mathieson, University of Pennsylvania |
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM | Coffee Break |
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM |
Reconstructing the population history of Puerto Rico via ancient DNA Analysis Maria A. Nieves-Colón, LANGEBIO, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico |
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM |
Paleogenomic study of a Pre-Hispanic Civilization from Central Mexico Viridiana Villa-Islas, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico |
11:55 AM - 12:20 PM |
Identification of ancient pathogens through a paleogenomic approach in PreHispanic and Colonial indigenous individuals from Central Mexico. Miriam Bravo-Lopez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico |
12:20 PM - 12:45 PM |
Population structure in pre-contact North America: a whole-genome ancient DNA study Freddi Scheib, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia |
12:45 AM - 3:00 PM | Lunch and Posters Scroll down to see poster titles |
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Session 2 |
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM |
Detecting ancient epidemics in human evolution David Enard, Stanford University |
3:25 PM - 3:50 PM |
Analysis of ancient population genomics supports the mismatch hypothesis in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder Oscar Lao, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
3:50 PM - 4:15 PM |
Characterizing archaic introgression in Australo-Papuans Anna Sapfo-Malaspinas, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
4:15 PM - 4:40 PM |
Imputing the gene regulatory effects of ancient alleles reveals differential regulation between modern and ancient hominins. Tony Capra, Vanderbilt University |
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | Coffee Break |
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM |
The Ancient DNA Revolution in Zooarchaeology Katherine Brunson, Brown University |
5:25 PM - 5:50 PM |
A publicly accessible repository of the world’s ancient genomes Shop Mallick, Harvard University |
6:00 PM | Dinner |
Friday, April 6, 2018 |
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9:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 3 |
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM |
Deleterious variation mimics signatures of genomic incompatibility and adaptive introgression Kirk Lohmueller, University of California Los Angeles |
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM |
Shared polymorphisms reveal additional pulses of Neanderthal introgression Recep Ozgur Taskent, State University of New York at Buffalo |
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM |
Neanderthal ancestry in modern-day humans provide clues for the pattern of Neanderthal-human admixture in the past Fernando Villanea, Temple University |
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM | Coffee Break |
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM |
Comparison of admixture estimation from ancient DNA Joshua Schraiber, Temple University |
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM |
Likelihood-based inference under the isolation-migration model using present-day and ancient DNA samples Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, University of California Berkeley |
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM |
Deep Learning coupled with ABC to study Native American Evolutionary History Olga Dolgova, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain |
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM |
Investigating the impact of reference bias on ancient DNA studies of prehistoric human populations Torsten Günther, Uppsala University, Sweden |
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch and Panel Discussion |
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Reception |
Posters |
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Adaptive eQTLs in human populations reveal the evolutionary impacts of pleiotropy and tissue-specificity Melanie Quiver, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Evolutionary history and adaptation from whole-genome sequences of a pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia. Serena Tucci, Princeton University |
Paleogenetic Investigation of Medieval Nubian Population from El-Kurru, Sudan Abagail Breidenstein, University of Michigan |
Using ancient DNA to study natural selection in threespine stickleback during marine to freshwater transitions Andy Foote, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales |
aDNA Analysis Indicates Genetic Discontinuity After the Collapse of the Wari Empire Ainash Childebayeva, University of Michigan |
Paleogenomic investigations of the ancient inhabitants of the Lower Pecos region of Texas and Northern Mexico Jennifer Raff, University of Kansas |