Student presentations

Sept 21 - Andrew Sands - Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens

Sept 21 - Robyn Monckton - Implication of natural selection in shaping 99.4% nonsynonymous DNA identity between humans and chimpanzees: Enlarging genus Homo

Sept 28 - Dani Marks - Ice ages and the mitochondrial DNA chronology of human dispersals: A review

Sept 28 - Stacey Gray - Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans

Oct 5 - Megan Donahue - X chromosome evidence for ancient human histories

Oct 5 - Andy Stark - Genetic evidence for larger African population size during recent human evolution

Oct 12 - Sara Meerow - Global patterns of linkage disequilibrium at the CD4 locus and modern human origins

Oct 12 - Renate Beyer - Genetic traces of ancient demography

Oct 19 - Abhishek Gangrade - DNA sequence of the mitochondrial hypervariable region II from the Neanderthal type specimen

Oct 19 - Adam Greulich - The Neanderthal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany

Oct 25 - Kristen Scheff - Genetics and the population history of Europe

Oct 25 - Sarah Skalaski - Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model

Nov 2 - Genevieve Ochs - The genetic legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in extant Europeans: A Y chromosome perspective

Nov 2 - Nina Parikh - Founding mothers of Jewish communities: Geographically separated groups were independently founded by very few female ancestors

Nov 2 - Ilana Seff - Y chromosomes traveling south: The Cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba - the "Black Jews of Southern Africa"

Nov 9 - Alex Payne - Diversity and age of the four major mtDNA haplogroups and their implications for the peopling of the New World

Nov 9 - Mike Ross - Population genetics, history and health patterns in Native Americans

Nov 16 - Andrew Dooley - DNA sequence from Cretaceous period bone fragments

Nov 16 - Jason Rudman - Analysis of ancient DNA from a prehistoric Amerindian cemetery

Nov 31 - Rachel Donahue - Ethical issues in medical sequencing research: Implications of genotype-phenotype studies for individuals and populations

Nov 31 - Frank Walch - Iceland: The case of a national human genome project