Program
| Date | Start | End | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 15 | 9:00 | 9:30 | Sasha Mikheyev | OIST | Introduction/presentation of OIST |
| 9:30 | 10:20 | Joshua Akey | University of Washington | Excavating ancient DNA from the the genomes of modern humans | |
| 10:20 | 11:10 | Alexander Mikheyev | OIST | Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees following introduction of a deadly parasite | |
| 11:10 | 12:00 | Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama | Dept. of Anthropol., National Museum of Nature and Science | Genome Analysis of Ancient Japanese Archipelago Humans | |
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noon-5pm, lunch then visit OIST campus, and Motobu peninsula 18:00-20:00 Working Dinner (Kafuu Catering @Level B restaurant) |
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| January 16 | 9:00 | 9:50 | Morten Rasmussen | Natural History Museum of Denmark | Ancient human genomes, a look into our past |
| 9:50 | 10:40 | Victor Solovyev | KAUST | NGS data processing algorithms for genomics and transcriptomics studies | |
| coffee break | 10:40 | 11:10 | |||
| 11:10 | 12:00 | Eugene Rogaev | U MASS | Historical DNA analysis: The Romanov's Case | |
| noon-1pm, lunch | |||||
| 13:00 | 13:30 | Sasha Mikheyev | OIST | A first look at the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer | |
| 13:30 | 14:20 | Eran Elhaik | Sheffield University | Geographic Population Structure Prediction Algorithm | |
| 14:20 | 15:10 | Lounes Chikhi | CNRS, Toulouse / Inst. Gulbenkian Ciência, Lisbon | On some issues related to population structure, the Neolithic transition and ancient DNA | |
| coffee break | 15:10 | 15:30 | |||
| 15:30 | 16:20 | Robin G Allaby (by Skype) | University of Warwick | Using archaeogenomic and computational approaches to unravel the history of local adaptation in crops | |
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Eugene Rogaev | U MASS | Ancient genome analysis : pitfalls and solutions | |
| 18-20 Working Dinner (Sushi night @ Level B restaurant) | |||||
| January 17 | 9:00 | 9:50 | Tatiana Tatarinova | USC | Traces of Ancient DNA in Modern Admixure |
| 9:50 | 10:20 | Ryosuke Kimura | University of the Ryukyus | Genomic anthropology on the Ryukyuans. | |
| coffee break | 10:20 | 10:50 | |||
| 10:50 | 11:20 | G. Arun Kumar | SASTRA, India | Ancient migrations and peopling of India - A Genographic perspective | |
| 11:20 | 12:00 | Cecile Ben | National Polytechnic Institute-National Institute of Agronomy | Using patterns of genetic variation within modern plant accessions to reveal ancestral genome admixture and to infer population adaptation in the wild legume species Medicago truncatula. | |
| noon-1pm, lunch | |||||
| 13:00 | 14:00 | Inna Dubchak |
Joint Genome Institute |
Mapping, Alignment and Visualization of aDNA |
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| 14:00 | 17:00 |
Round table discussion |
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| 17:00 | 17:15 | Concluding remarks | |||
| 18-20 Closing dinner (Kafuu Catering Banquet@Kaito Café) | |||||