Genes, Peoples and Languages - IPAM

Genes, Peoples and Languages

February 11 - 15, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 11, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:20
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:20-09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:30
Alan Walker (Pennsylvania State University)
Early hominid life history
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Wen-Hsiung Li (University of Chicago)
World-wide pattern of DNA polymorphism and its implications for human evolution

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Magnus Nordborg (University of Southern California)
Genealogical trees, coalescent theory, and the analysis of genetic polymorphism data
14:30-15:30
Joanna Mountain (Stanford University)
Genetic diversity and the antiquity of click languages
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30
Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University)
Genes, Peoples and Languages
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 12, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Anna Di Rienzo (University of Chicago)
The signatures of population history and natural selection on human genome variation
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Noah Rosenberg (University of Southern California)
The Relationship between coalescence times and population divergence times

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Daniel Falush (Oxford University)
Traces of human migrations in helicobacter pylori populations
14:30-15:30
Joseph Hacia (University of Southern California)
The Use of DNA Microarrays to Study Non-Human Primate Genetics
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Round Table Discussion

Thursday, February 14, 2002

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Jean-Jacques Hublin (Université Bordeaux)
The rise of the Neandertals: another bottle-necking?
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Marta Mirazón Lahr (Cambridge University)
Extinction in recent human evolution

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Susan Holmes (Stanford University)
Comparing trees, geometry and applications.
14:30-15:30
Robert Martin (The Field Museum)
New Light on the Dates of Primate Origins and Divergence
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Round Table Discussion
17:00-17:30
Social (Refreshments available)
17:30-19:00
Conference Dinner-BBQ
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