Schedule

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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
	The genetic history of Africa based on modern and ancient DNA Carina Schlebusch, Uppsala University
8:00 PM	Reception
Thursday, April 5, 2018
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
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
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