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All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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A Population Reference Graph for Human Genetic Variation
Gil McVean (University of Oxford)
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Genetic Variation in Gene Regulation
Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford University
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Break
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A General Method for Calculating Likelihoods for Coalescence of Linear Genomes
Nick Barton (IST Austria)
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Lunch
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Ancestral Population Genomics with Coalescent Hidden Markov Models
Thomas Mailund, Aarhus University
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Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction
Sarah Otto, University of British Columbia
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Population Genetics of the Neanderthal Genome Project
Montgomery Slatkin (UC Berkeley)
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Any Way You Want It: Applications of Whole Genome Capture to Ancient DNA, Metagenomics, and Orthogonal Validation
Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University
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Break
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Creating (and Mapping to) a Universal Reference Genome
David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz)
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Lunch
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Algorithms for Genetic Selection
Vineet Bafna, UC San Diego
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Inference from Allele Frequency Time Series
Steven Evans (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Coalescent Approaches to Selective Sweeps
Graham Coop (UC Davis)
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Natural Selection in a Spatial Continuum
Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Some Tight Bounds in Recovering Species Trees and Population Histories
Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Robust Demographic Inference from Genomic and SNP Data
Laurent Excoffier, University of Bern
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Break
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Calculation of Joint Allelic Spectra
Nick Patterson (Broad Institute)
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Lunch
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Analysis of Haplotype Sharing and Recent Demographic History with Examples from the Netherlands
Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University
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Probabilistic Models for Spatial Geographic Localization
Eran Halperin (Tel Aviv University)
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Break
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Quantifying the Extent of Geographic Signature in the Human Genome
Lior Pachter (California Institute of Technology)
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Mutation Rates and Generation Times in Humans
Molly Przeworski, Columbia University
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Coffee and Check-In
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A Tree-based Approach to Inferring Past Population Size Changes and Separation Times
Simon Myers, University of Oxford
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Correcting for Confounding in Genetic Studies
Eleazar Eskin (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Break
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Identifying Recombination Hot Spots from Sequence Polymorphism Data
Jeff Wall, UCSF
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Lunch
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The Impact of Recent Human Demography on Deleterious Mutation Load and the Genetic Architecture of Disease Susceptibility
Guy Sella, Columbia University
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Coancestry in the Analysis of Genetic Traits
Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington
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Break
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Crowd-sourcing Genetic Discovery
Nicholas Eriksson, 23andMe