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Paul
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Camp Evolution III
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Sede-Boqer Campus, March 25-29, 2007
Organizer: Ariel
Novoplansky
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New! Lectures
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The
workshop featured a lecture series by Noah Rosenberg and
Mittias Jakobsson,
Department of Human Genetics and Bioinformatics Program University of Michigan,
Human Evolutionary
Genetics
as well as presentations by other participants.
This workshop will cover new results about human
genetic variation that are emerging from modern genomic studies. Topics will
include human population history and geographic structure, the role of natural
selection during the human expansion into new environments, and spatial
perspectives on genetic variation. The course will also give an overview
of data analysis approaches and software packages useful studies both in human
evolution and in molecular ecology.
Overview
of human evolutionary genetics (~2 hours)
An outline of recent human evolutionary history with
a focus on the view from genetics
Patterns
of genetic variation across human populations (~1.5 hours)
Practical lab exercise in which we will search
through microsatellite data for signals of human migrations
Day
2.
Case
study: the
Genetic
variation in native and admixed populations of the
Measuring the geographic
distributions of alleles (~1.5 hours)
Practical
lab exercise focusing on allelic distributions
Day
3.
Population-genetic
theory of human evolution (~4 hours)
Pedigrees, genealogies, most recent common ancestors,
and the coalescent
Day
4.
Evolutionary
genetics of domesticated organisms (~1 hour)
The impact of humans on genetic variation in
domesticated plants and animals
Genetic
signatures of adaptation (~1 hour)
The role of natural selection in shaping genetic
variation across human populations
Population
structure (~1.5 hours)
Practical lab exercise on the inference and analysis
of population structure
Day
5.
Human
evolutionary genetics and the search for disease-susceptibility genes (~2
hours)
The importance of human evolution for genetic mapping
Open
questions in human evolutionary genetics (~1.5 hours)
A
survey of current developments and prospects for future work
Getting to Midreshet Ben-Gurion and
the
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Sat, March 24 |
Sun, March 25 |
Mon, March 26 |
Tues, March 27 |
Wed, March 28 |
Thurs, March 29 |
08:00 – 08:20 |
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Arrival and check-in |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
Breakfast |
08:30 – 10:00 |
Human evolutionary genetics |
Human evolutionary genetics |
Human evolutionary genetics |
Human evolutionary genetics |
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10:00 – 10:45 |
Early arrival |
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10:45 – 12:30 |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 18:00 |
Human evolutionary genetics |
Excursion: The Yerucham Iris reserve
and the Chatira crater |
Excursion: Shivta ruins |
Excursion: Nekarot/ Ramon crater |
Checkout |
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19:00 – 20:00 |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Party Dinner |
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Shavel Itzkovitch "Using
somatic genomic variability to study cell lineage relations" |
Adi Stern |
Lior David variability and population structure of the common carp" |
Sagi Snir "Lateral Transfer: How Tree-Like is the Tree of Life?" |
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21:30 - ?? |
Social. |
Social |
Social |
Social |