PROGRAMMA 2010

Venerdi' 22.01, ore 14:30
Targets of Balancing Selection in the Human Genome
Andres AM, Hubisz MJ, Indap A, Torgerson DG, Degenhardt JD, Boyko AR, Gutenkunst RN, White TJ, Green ED, Bustamante CD, Clark AG, Nielsen R.Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Dec;26(12):2755-64. Epub 2009 Aug 27.
ABSTRACT
Presenta il seminario: Silvia Fuselli

Venerdi' 29.01, ore 14:30
Un approccio alla genetica di conservazione di alcune specie di vertebrati in Trentino.
Presenta il seminario: Luca Cornetti

Venerdi' 05.02, ore 14:30
The hybridization among four species of sea turtles in the Brazilian coast
Presenta il seminario: Sibelle Vilaca

Venerdi' 12.02, ore 14:30
Positively selected G6PD-Mahidol mutation reduces Plasmodium vivax density in Southeast Asians.
Louicharoen C, Patin E, Paul R, Nuchprayoon I, Witoonpanich B, Peerapittayamongkol C, Casademont I, Sura T, Laird NM, Singhasivanon P, Quintana-Murci L, Sakuntabhai A.Science. Dec 11;326(5959):1546-9.
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Presenta il seminario: Caterina Chianella

Venerdi' 19.02, ore 14:00
Genetic structure is correlated with phenotypic divergence rather than geographic isolation in the highly polymorphic strawberry poison-dart frog.
Wang IJ, Summers K. Mol Ecol. 2009 Dec 15. [Epub ahead of print]
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Presenta il seminario: Silvia Ghirotto

Venerdi' 26.02, ore 14:00
Studio delle relazioni genetiche fra Neandertaliani, Cro-Magnon ed Europei moderni.
Presenta il seminario: Francesca Tassi

Studio della variabilita' genetica del locus EPO in popolazioni umane di alta quota delle Ande peruviane.
Presenta il seminario: Giampaolo Morciano

Venerdi' 05.03, ore 14:00
A genome-wide survey of the prevalence and evolutionary forces acting on human nonsense SNPs.
Yngvadottir B, Xue Y, Searle S, Hunt S, Delgado M, Morrison J, Whittaker P, Deloukas P, Tyler-Smith C. . Am J Hum Genet. 2009 Feb;84(2):224-34. Epub 2009 Feb 5.
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Presenta il seminario: Enza Colonna

Venerdi' 12.03, ore 14:00
How robust are "isolation with migration" analyses to violations of the im model? A simulation study.
Strasburg JL, Rieseberg LH. Mol Biol Evol. 2010 Feb;27(2):297-310. Epub 2009 Sep 30.
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Presenta il seminario: Andrea Benazzo

Venerdi' 19.03, ore 14:00
Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans.
Bryc K, Auton A, Nelson MR, Oksenberg JR, Hauser SL, Williams S, Froment A, Bodo JM, Wambebe C, Tishkoff SA, Bustamante CD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Jan 12;107(2):786-91. Epub 2009 Dec 22.
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Presenta il seminario: Pierpaolo Maisano Delser

Venerdi' 30.04, ore 14:00
An increased genetic dataset to infer the expansion of farmers and their interaction with hunter-gatherers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Presenta il seminario: Silvia Ghirotto

Venerdi' 07.05, ore 14:00
A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome.
Green RE, Krause J, Briggs AW, Maricic T, Stenzel U, Kircher M, Patterson N, Li H, Zhai W, Fritz MH, Hansen NF, Durand EY, Malaspinas AS, Jensen JD, Marques-Bonet T, Alkan C, Prüfer K, Meyer M, Burbano HA, Good JM, Schultz R, Aximu-Petri A, Butthof A, Höber B, Höffner B, Siegemund M, Weihmann A, Nusbaum C, Lander ES, Russ C, Novod N, Affourtit J, Egholm M, Verna C, Rudan P, Brajkovic D, Kucan Z, Gusic I, Doronichev VB, Golovanova LV, Lalueza-Fox C, de la Rasilla M, Fortea J, Rosas A, Schmitz RW, Johnson PL, Eichler EE, Falush D, Birney E, Mullikin JC, Slatkin M, Nielsen R, Kelso J, Lachmann M, Reich D, Pääbo S. Science. 2010 May 7;328(5979):710-22.
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Presenta il seminario: Guido Barbujani

Venerdi' 14.05, ore 14:00

The evolutionary fate of the genes encoding the purine catabolic enzymes in hominoids, birds, and reptiles.

Keebaugh AC, Thomas JW. Mol Biol Evol. 2010 Jun;27(6):1359-69. Epub 2010 Jan 27.2010 May 7;328(5979):710-22.
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Presenta il seminario: Silvia Fuselli

Venerdi' 21.05, ore 14:00
Genetic Evidence for High-Altitude Adaptation in Tibet.
Simonson TS, Yang Y, Huff CD, Yun H, Qin G, Witherspoon DJ, Bai Z, Lorenzo FR, Xing J, Jorde LB, Prchal JT, Ge R. Science. 2010 May 13. [Epub ahead of print]

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Presenta il seminario: Pierpaolo Maisano Delser e Caterina Chianella

Venerdi' 28.05, ore 14:00
Bayesian inference of population size history from multiple loci.
Heled J, Drummond AJ. BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Oct 23;8:289.
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Presenta il seminario/software club: Andrea Benazzo

Venerdi' 04.06, ore 14:00
Colloquium paper: human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequency.
Hancock AM, Witonsky DB, Ehler E, Alkorta-Aranburu G, Beall C, Gebremedhin A, Sukernik R, Utermann G, Pritchard J, Coop G, Di Rienzo A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 May 11;107 Suppl 2:8924-30. Epub 2010 May 5.
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Presenta il seminario: Giampaolo Morciano

Venerdi' 11.06, ore 14:00

Genetic differentiation in the urban habitat: the great tits (Parus major) of the parks of Barcelona city

MATS BJÖRKLUND, IKER RUIZ and JUAN CARLOS SENAR Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 99, 9–19.

Presenta il seminario: Luca Cornetti

Venerdi' 08.10, ore 14:00
Phylogeny & comparative methods.
Presenta il seminario: Andrea Benazzo

Venerdi' 15.10, ore 14:00
A report of the Bernhard-Rensch Summer School of Genome Evolution.
Presenta il seminario: Sibelle Vilaca

Venerdi' 22.10, ore 14:00
Genetic history of Native South-Americans.
Presenta il seminario: Marilia Scliar

Venerdi' 29.10, ore 14:00
Signatures of founder effects, admixture, and selection in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
Bray SM, Mulle JG, Dodd AF, Pulver AE, Wooding S, Warren ST.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Sep 14;107(37):16222-7. Epub 2010 Aug 26.
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Presenta il seminario: Luca Penso Dolfin

Venerdi' 05.11, ore 14:00
Deep divergences of human gene trees and models of human origins.
Blum MG, Jakobsson M. Mol Biol Evol. 2010 Oct 7. [Epub ahead of print].
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Presenta il seminario: Silvia Ghirotto

Venerdi' 12.11, ore 14:00
A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing.
1000 Genomes Project Consortium. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1061-73.
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Presenta il seminario: Silvia Fuselli

Venerdi' 19.11, ore 14:00
Phylogenetic representativeness: a new method for evaluating taxon sampling in evolutionary studies. 
Plazzi F, Ferrucci RR, Passamonti M. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010 Apr 27;11:209.
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Presenta il seminario: Federico Plazzi

Venerdi' 26.11, ore 14:00
Demographic History of Oceania Inferred from Genome-wide Data. 
Wollstein A, Lao O, Becker C, Brauer S, Trent RJ, Nürnberg P, Stoneking M, Kayser M.Curr Biol. 2010 Nov 10. [Epub ahead of print]
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Presenta il seminario: Francesca Tassi

Venerdi' 3.12, ore 14:00
Human-specific evolution and adaptation led to major qualitative differences in the variable receptors of human and chimpanzee natural killer cells. 
Abi-Rached L, Moesta AK, Rajalingam R, Guethlein LA, Parham P. PLoS Genet. 2010 Nov 4;6(11):e1001192.

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Presenta il seminario: Letizia Marullo

Venerdi' 10.12, ore 14:00
Anthropological genetic perspectives on the prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa
Presenta il seminario: Cesare de Filippo

Venerdi' 17.12, ore 14:00
Towards a complete resolution of the genetic architecture of disease
Singleton AB, Hardy J, Traynor BJ, Houlden H. Trends Genet. 2010 Oct;26(10):438-42.
ABSTRACT
Presenta il seminario: Guido Barbujani