Organised by Professor Danny Altmann, Dr Francois Balloux and Dr Rosemary Boyton
Please find below MP3 audio files recorded at this Satellite Meeting scientific meeting for the following talks and discussions.
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Session 1 – Where anthropogenetics and history meet
Death comes to town: disease resistance, urbanisation and recent selection in human populations
Dr Ian Barnes, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
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Hunting the molecular past
Professor Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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African population history inferred from genomic data
Dr Brenna Henn, Stanford University, USA
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Archaeogenetics and the settlement of the Remote Pacific
Professor Martin Richards, University of Leeds, UK
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Session 2 – Human migration, genes and language
Insights into human genome variation from the 1000 Genomes Project
Dr Chris Tyler-Smith, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
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Language evolution in time and space
Dr Quentin Atkinson, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Reconstruction of ancient migrations using multiple lines of evidence
Dr Stephen Oppenheimer, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Enthnography, University of Oxford, UK
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Reconstructing the mode and tempo of the out-of-Africa migration of anatomically modern humans
Dr Andrea Manica, University of Cambridge, UK
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Session 3 – Evolutionary pressure and the immune system
Evolution of the HLA-C 3’UTR and its effect on HIV control
Dr Mary Carrington, National Cancer Institute, USA
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Population-specific evolution of Natural Killer cell diversity
Professor Paul Norman, Stanford University, USA
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Origin of Amerindians and their genetic relatedness with Asian and Pacific islanders
Dr Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Universidad Complutense, Spain
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Recognition of the Mtb-infected Cell: a fine line between innate and adaptive immunity
David Lewinsohn, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
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Session 4 – Plagues, epidemics and history
Are occasional human pathogens useful to their host?
Professor Robin Weiss, University College London, UK
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Should we blame agriculture on all our ills
Dr Francois Balloux, Imperial College London, UK
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The role of epistatic interactions between genetic disorders of haemoglobin in determining their global distribution
Professor Sunetra Gupta, University of Oxford, UK
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