S C I E N T I F I C   P R O G R A M M E

2nd DNA POLYMORPHISMS IN
HUMAN POPULATIONS
International Symposium - Paris - December 5-6, 2003
Musée de l'Homme 
17, Place du Trocadéro
75016 Paris, France


 
 
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  Friday, the 5th of December
8.00 - 9.10 
  Registration
9.20 
  Welcome address (Franz Manni and Evelyne Heyer)
 
  First session: (discussant: Evelyne Heyer)
 9.30 
David Balding
  Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans
10.05 
Frédéric Austerlitz
Impact of fertility transmission on genetic diversity in humans
10.30 
Graham Coop
Full likelihood inference on gene trees under selective models 
 10.55 
  Coffee break and poster viewing

  Second session: (discussant: Lluis Quintana-Murci)
  11.30 
 David Goldstein
  TO BE ANNOUNCED
 11.55 
Mark Stoneking
Detecting local selection in human populations
 12.35 
Chris Spencer
Selection, recombination and linkage disequilibrium
13.00 
  Lunch

  Third session (discussant: Pierre Darlu)
15.00 
Susan Ptak
Evidence for population growth in humans is confounded by 
  fine scale population structure
15.25 
Stephanie Manel
Geographical analysis of landscape genetic variation: 
  Landscape genetics
16.10 
Raphael Leblois
Estimation of demographic parameters under isolation by distance : What can we do now?
 16.30 
  Coffee break

  Fourth session 
16.30 
 Poster session :
Patricia Balaresque
Evolutionary dynamics and population genetics of sex-linked homologous microsatellites:
from molecular mechanisms to population genetic analysis
Luis Barreiro 
Different nucleotide and haplotype diversity in two closely related innate immunity genes in humans
Raphaelle Chaix
Lineages, clans and tribes in patrilineal societies revisited by genetic data. 
The example of mongol-turkic pastoral populations
Fabio Di Giacomo 
Non-clinal patterns of human Y-chromosomal diversity in Italy
Catherine Godinot 
Decrease in predominance of mitochondrial DNA haplotype B 
in the Aymara population suffering from excessive erythrocytosis
Annie Guiller 
Comparison of spatial genetic patterns in the land snail 
Cornu aspersum inferred from different statistical tools
Lejla Kapur 
MtDNA diversity in local human populations after war resettlement
Francesca Luca
MtDNA variation in central Africa: 
A micro-evolutionary study in Bantu-speaking populations from Gabon
Stéphanie Plaza 
Joining the pillars of Hercules: 
mtDNA sequences show multidirectional gene flow in the Western mediterranean sea
Juan Sanchez 
Y-Chromosome analysis of the Somali population 
suggests the origin of the haplogroup E3b1
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Fifth session 
 17.30 
Franz Manni
The identification of genetic barriers and the evaluation of their robustness 
  by an improuved Monmonier's approach 
 17.50 
Rodney J. Dyer
The shape of genetic structure: a graph-theoretic analysis of global human genetic variation
18.10 
Daniel Falush
Inference on historical admixture from multilocus genotype data
 18.40 
  Conference dinner for speakers
 
  Saturday, the 6th of December

  Sixth session (discussant: Marc Fellous)
10.00 
Oscar Lao
Geographic structure of variation at SNPs conferring risk for Coronary Heart Disease
10.25 
Laurent Excoffier
  Molecular diversity and genetic structure after a spatial expansion: 
Application to human data
11.00 
  Coffee break and poster viewing

  Seventh session (discussant: Michel Veuille)
11.30 
Carlos D. Bustamante 
Assessing the evolutionary consequences of amino acid variation in the human genome 
using genomic polymorphism and divergence data
11.05 
Santos Alonso 
Compound haplotypes at  Xp11.23 and human population growth in Eurasia
12.25 
Ciara Dolan 
Distinction of Caucasian (Irish) population structure defined by pathogen response-related genetic variants and other genetic variants
12.45 
 Concluding comments

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