Program Schedule
September 16th, Saturday | ||
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8:30 | Light Breakfast | |
9:00 | Welcome (Sudhir Kumar) | |
Monogenic Diseases | ||
9:15 | Yana Bromberg | Improving variant effect prediction: function, disease, and evolution of “normal” |
9:45 | Eduardo G. Amorim | The population genetics of Mendelian diseases: the case of recessive, lethal mutations |
9:55 | Jinchuan Xing | Investigate lysosomal disease etiology by exome sequencing |
10:05 | Jody Hey | A new method for identifying young, harmful mutations in human populations |
10:15 | Laura Scheinfeldt | Ancient Adaptive landscape of the human exome |
10:25 | Coffee Break | |
Cancer Evolution | ||
11:00 | Jeff Townsend | Population genetics of selection on somatic variants in cancer: identifying therapeutic targets and predicting evolution of resistance to therapy |
11:30 | Sayaka Miura | Discovering tumor clones using molecular phylogenetics |
11:50 | Vincent Cannataro | The likelihood of heterogeneity or additional mutation in KRAS or associated oncogenes to compromise targeting of oncogenic KRAS G12C |
12:00 | Kshitiz | How Evolution of Pregnancy May Have Solved the Problem for Cancer Malignancy |
12:10 | Lunch Served | |
Complex Diseases | ||
1:30 | Joel Dudley | Using evolutionary genomics to inform precision medicine discovery |
2:00 | Li Liu | Fast Fine Mapping of Causal eQTL Variants |
2:10 | Katherine Siewert | Two signals of balancing selection localizing with complex trait loci |
2:20 | David Liberles | Context dependence of the functional effects of SNPs: a pathway simulation approach |
2:30 | Josh Akey | Signatures of recent widespread relaxation of functional constraint in protein-coding genes |
3:00 | Coffee Break | |
Infectious Diseases | ||
3:30 | Sarah Tishkoff | Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease |
4:00 | Ananias Escalante | Origins of Human malaria |
4:10 | Fabia Battistuzzi | Evolution Of Low Complexity Regions In Plasmodium |
4:20 | Joshua P. Earl | Comparison of Two Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Virulence, and Habitat of Non-Typeable Haemophilus influenzae Via Gene Possession |
4:30 | Chase Nelson | Virus-host coevolution and carcinogenicity through the lens of human papillomavirus |
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4:40 | Randy Nesse | Selection shapes fitness cliffs that cause disease vulnerability |
5:10 | Reception | |
5:10 | Poster Session |
September 17th, Sunday | ||
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8:30 | Light Breakfast | |
9:00 | Introduction (Sudhir Kumar) | |
Molecular Phylogenetics | ||
9:15 | Claudia Russo | Diversification of major groups of birds |
9:45 | Saitou Naruya | 30 year anniversary of the Neighbor-Joining method |
9:52 | Koichiro Tamura | RelTime: divergence time estimation under evolutionary rate variation |
9:59 | Naoko Takezaki | Resolving the Phylogenetic Position of Coelacanth: The Closest Relative Is Not Always the Most Appropriate Outgroup |
10:06 | S. Blair Hedges | Evolutionary Timetrees |
10:13 | Ruriko Yoshida | Principal Component Analysis in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees |
10:20 | Sabayasachi Das | A Phylogenetic Journey Through Adaptive Immunity |
10:27 | Kazuharu Misawa | The Continuous Isolation-By-Distance Model Explains Why Genes Mirror Geography |
10:32 | Coffee Break | |
Functional Evolution - I | ||
11:03 | Wen-Hsiung Li | Evolutionary approach to functional genomics |
11:33 | Jongmin Nam | Can sea urchins find human embryonic enhancers and promoters? |
11:41 | Helen Piontkivska | Role of Host Immunity in Zika-Mediated Pathogenesis |
11:49 | Wojciech Makalowski | Evolutionary value of junk DNA |
11:57 | Zhenguo Zhang | Drosophila X-Linked Genes Have Lower Translation Rates Than Autosomal Genes |
12:05 | Shozo Yokoyama | Far-red and green color vision in the dark deep-sea |
12:13 | Nikolas Nikolaidis | Decoding the human cellular stress response |
12:21 | Lunch Served | |
Population Genetics | ||
1:31 | Aravinda Chakravarti | The molecular and population genetics of a complex disorder |
2:01 | Joaquin Dopazo | A look at the human mutational load from the systems biology perspective |
2:09 | Marcy Uyenoyama | Extending the Ewens Sampling Formula to structured populations |
2:17 | Dimitra Chalkia | Autism Spectrum Disorders: certainly complex, probably with a mitochondrial twist |
2:25 | Partha Majumder | Revisiting "Genetic Relationships between Indians and Their Neighboring Populations" Thirty-two Years Later |
2:55 | Coffee Break | |
Functional Evolution - II | ||
3:28 | George Zhang | Evolutionary adaptations to new environments generally reverse plastic phenotypic changes |
3:58 | Zhenguo Lin | Evolutionary dynamics of transcription initiation in yeasts |
4:06 | Masafumi Nozawa | Accelerated pseudogenization on the neo-X chromosome in Drosophila miranda |
4:14 | Igor Rogozin | Evolutionary switches between two serine codon series are driven by selection |
4:22 | Li Hao | Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of Neisseria meningitidis |
4:30 | Takashi Gojobori | Comparative Marine Metagenomics with Micro-Fluidics of Single-Cell Screening |
5:00 | Nei Associates Meet at Lobby |
September 16th, Saturday | ||
---|---|---|
8:30 | Light Breakfast | ||
9:00 | Welcome (Sudhir Kumar) | ||
Monogenic Diseases | ||
9:15 | Yana Bromberg | ||
Improving variant effect prediction: function, disease, and evolution of “normal” | ||
9:45 | Eduardo G. Amorim | ||
The population genetics of Mendelian diseases: the case of recessive, lethal mutations | ||
9:55 | Jinchuan Xing | ||
Investigate lysosomal disease etiology by exome sequencing | ||
10:05 | Jody Hey | ||
A new method for identifying young, harmful mutations in human populations | ||
10:15 | Laura Scheinfeldt | ||
Ancient Adaptive landscape of the human exome | ||
10:25 | Coffee Break | ||
Cancer Evolution | ||
11:00 | Jeff Townsend | ||
Population genetics of selection on somatic variants in cancer: identifying therapeutic targets and predicting evolution of resistance to therapy | ||
11:30 | Sayaka Miura | ||
Discovering tumor clones using molecular phylogenetics | ||
11:50 | Vincent Cannataro | ||
The likelihood of heterogeneity or additional mutation in KRAS or associated oncogenes to compromise targeting of oncogenic KRAS G12C | ||
12:00 | Kshitiz | ||
How Evolution Of Pregnancy May Have Solved The Problem For Cancer Malignancy | ||
12:10 | Lunch Served | ||
Complex Diseases | ||
1:30 | Joel Dudley | ||
Using evolutionary genomics to inform precision medicine discovery | ||
2:00 | Li Liu | ||
Fast Fine Mapping of Causal eQTL Variants | ||
2:10 | Katherine Siewert | ||
Two Signals Of Balancing Selection Localizing With Complex Trait Loci | ||
2:20 | David Liberles | ||
Context dependence of the functional effects of SNPs: a pathway simulation approach | ||
2:30 | Josh Akey | ||
Signatures of recent widespread relaxation of functional constraint in protein-coding genes | ||
3:00 | Coffee Break | ||
Infectious Diseases | ||
3:30 | Sarah Tishkoff | ||
Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease | ||
4:00 | Ananias Escalante | ||
Origins of Human malaria | ||
4:10 | Fabia Battistuzzi | ||
Evolution of Low Complexity Regions in Plasmodium | ||
4:20 | Joshua P. Earl | ||
Comparison of Two Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Virulence, and Habitat of Non-Typeable Haemophilus influenzae Via Gene Possession | ||
4:30 | Chase Nelson | ||
Virus-host coevolution and carcinogenicity through the lens of human papillomavirus | ||
. | ||
4:40 | Randy Nesse | ||
Selection shapes fitness cliffs that cause disease vulnerability | ||
5:10 | Reception | ||
5:10 | Poster Session |
September 17th, Sunday | ||
---|---|---|
8:30 | Light Breakfast | ||
9:00 | Introduction (Sudhir Kumar) | ||
Molecular Phylogenetics | ||
9:15 | Claudia Russo | ||
Diversification of major groups of birds | ||
9:45 | Saitou Naruya | ||
30 year anniversary of the Neighbor-Joining method | ||
9:52 | Koichiro Tamura | ||
RelTime: divergence time estimation under evolutionary rate variation | ||
9:59 | Naoko Takezaki | ||
Resolving the Phylogenetic Position of Coelacanth: The Closest Relative Is Not Always the Most Appropriate Outgroup | ||
10:06 | S. Blair Hedges | ||
Evolutionary Timetrees | ||
10:13 | Ruriko Yoshida | ||
Principal Component Analysis in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees | ||
10:20 | Sabayasachi Das | ||
A Phylogenetic Journey Through Adaptive Immunity | ||
10:27 | Kazuharu Misawa | ||
The continuous isolation-by-distance model explains why genes mirror geography | ||
10:32 | Coffee Break | ||
Functional Evolution - I | ||
11:03 | Wen-Hsiung Li | ||
Evolutionary approach to functional genomics | ||
11:33 | Jongmin Nam | ||
Can sea urchins find human embryonic enhancers and promoters? | ||
11:41 | Helen Piontkivska | ||
Role of Host Immunity in Zika-Mediated Pathogenesis | ||
11:49 | Wojciech Makalowski | ||
Evolutionary value of junk DNA | ||
11:57 | Zhenguo Zhang | ||
Drosophila X-Linked Genes Have Lower Translation Rates Than Autosomal Genes | ||
12:05 | Shozo Yokoyama | ||
Far-red and green color vision in the dark deep-sea | ||
12:13 | Nikolas Nikolaidis | ||
Decoding the human cellular stress response | ||
12:21 | Lunch Served | ||
Population Genetics | ||
1:31 | Aravinda Chakravarti | ||
The molecular and population genetics of a complex disorder | ||
2:01 | Joaquin Dopazo | ||
A look at the human mutational load from the systems biology perspective | ||
2:09 | Marcy Uyenoyama | ||
Extending the Ewens Sampling Formula to structured populations | ||
2:17 | Dimitra Chalkia | ||
Autism Spectrum Disorders: certainly complex, probably with a mitochondrial twist | ||
2:25 | Partha Majumder | ||
Revisiting "Genetic Relationships between Indians and Their Neighboring Populations" Thirty-two Years Later | ||
2:25 | Coffee Break | ||
Functional Evolution - II | ||
3:28 | George Zhang | ||
Evolutionary adaptations to new environments generally reverse plastic phenotypic changes | ||
3:58 | Zhenguo Lin | ||
Evolutionary dynamics of transcription initiation in yeasts | ||
4:06 | Masafumi Nozawa | ||
Accelerated pseudogenization on the neo-X chromosome in Drosophila miranda | ||
4:14 | Igor Rogozin | ||
Evolutionary switches between two serine codon series are driven by selection | ||
4:22 | Li Hao | ||
Molecular epidemiology and evolutionary dynamics of Neisseria meningitidis | ||
4:30 | Takashi Gojobori | ||
Comparative Marine Metagenomics with Micro-Fluidics of Single-Cell Screening | ||
5:00 | Nei Associates Meet in the Lobby |