XV ICAES 2K3
Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present and Future
(Florence, July 5th - 12th 2003)

Genomic Footprints of Humans in Asia and Eurasia

Organiser(s):   Professor B. Mohan Reddy
Address      :  Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit,
                      Indian Statistical Institute,
                      203, Barrackpore Trunk Road,
                      Kolkata - 700108, India.
E-mail        :    bmr@isical.ac.in

Available evidence, both palaeontological and genetic, almost unequivocally supports the out-of-Africa theory of evolution of modern humans. Asia and Euraisa seem to have served as major corridors of migrations of humans from out-of-Africa. However, the routes of migration and dispersal within and from these regions are incompletely understood. Various hypothesis have been proposed regarding these aspects, but the available evidence to test these hypotheses based on  prehistoric/archaeological/palaeontological data are inadequate. Even data on classical genetic markers have not been successful in  resolving the various competing hypotheses.
        Within the past few years, because of the tremendous advances in molecular anthropology, large volumes of data at the DNA level have been generated from populations of Asia and Euraisa. Many recent publications using DNA marker data have also provided tentative reconstruction of migration routes of humans through these regions, in particular, and the peopling of these regions, in general. It is appropriate to obtain a synthetic view of these studies, identify further hypotheses to be tested and plan future work. It is with these objectives that we are organising the symposium, "Genomic Footprints of Humans in Asia and Euraisa", during the XV ICAES 2K3.

Tentative List of  Participants\Speakers and the Titles of the Talks:

  • Title: From Asia back to Africa: Y chromosome evidence.
    Almut Nebel, Ph.D.
    Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Unit
    Dept. of Human Genetics
    University of the Witwatersrand and
    National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS)
    POB 1038, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa
    e-mail: almutn@mail.saimr.wits.ac.za
  • Title: Genetic footprints of the populations of the Southern Levant.
    Ariella Oppenheim, Ph.D.
    Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School
    Jerusalem, Israel 91120
    e-mail: ariella@md.huji.ac.il
  • Title: Implications of the Indian population structure to the DNA studies on the history and peopling of the region.
    B. Mohan Reddy, Ph.D.
    Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit
    Indian Statistical Institute
    203, B. T. Road, Kolkata-700108, India
    e-mail: bmr@isical.ac.in
  • Title: Origin and molecular characterization of the tribal populations of Meghalaya, India .
    Banrida T. Langstieh
    Department of Anthropology
    North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India
    e-mail: banrida@yahoo.com
  • Title: Y-chromosomal DNA variation in Asia.
    Chris Tyler-Smith, Ph.D.
    Department of Biochemistry
    Oxford University, U.K.
    e-mail: chris.tyler-smith@bioch.ox.ac.uk
  • Title: The peopling of Central Asia revealed by the analysis of mtDNA lineages.
    David Comas, Ph.D.
    Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva
    Facultat de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida
    Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    Doctor Aiguader 80, 08003 Barcelona
    e-mail: david.comas@cexs.upf.es
  • Title: Inferring aspects of the European prehistory from DNA data.
    Guido Barbujani, Ph.D.
    Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Ferrara
    via L. Borsari 46, I-44100 Ferrara Italia
    e-mail: bjg@dns.unife.it
  • Title: The alchemy of molecular anthropology.
    H.-J. Bandelt, Ph.D.
    Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Mathematik
    Bundesstr. 55, D-20146 Hamburg
    e-mail: bandelt@math.uni-hamburg.de
  • Title: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of Indian populations.
    K. Thangaraj, Ph.D
    Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
    Uppal Road, Hyderabad-500007, India
    e-mail: thangs@ccmb.res.in
  • Title: Yet to be announced.
    Ken McElreavey, Ph.D.
    Institut Pasteur
    Departement d'Immunogenetique Humaine
    75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
    e-mail: kenmce@pasteur.fr 
  • Title: A global overview of gene frequency variation in Homo sapiens.
    Kenneth K. Kidd, Ph.D.
    Department of Genetics
    Yale University School of Medicine
    333 Cedar Street, New Haven CT 06520-8005
    e-mail: kidd@biomed.med.yale.edu
  • Title: Migration patterns in Asia and Eurasia .
    Li Jin, Ph.D.
    Center for Genome Information
    University of Cincinnati
    331 Kettering, Cincinnati, OH
    e-mail: jinl@ucmail.uc.edu
  • Title: Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of Southwest and Central Asia .
    Luis Quintana-Murci, Ph.D.
    Institut Pasteur
    Paris, France
    e-mail : quintana@pasteur.fr
  • Title: Genetic evidence on origins and affinities of South Indian caste and tribal populations
    Lynn B. Jorde, Ph.D.
    Institute of Human genetics
    Univ. Utah 15 N. 2030 E., Rm. 2100
    Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5330
    e-mail: lbj@genetics.utah.edu
  • Title: Y-STR typing of selected ethnic groups in the Philippines .
    Maria Corazon A. De Ungria, Ph.D.
    DNA Analysis Laboratory
    National Sciences Research Institute
    University of the Philippines
    Diliman, Quezon City 1101
    e-mail: mcadu@uplink.com.ph 
  • Title: Diverse histories of tribal populations of India .
    Mark Stoneking, Ph.D.
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Inselstrasse 22
    D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
    e-mail: stoneking@eva.mpg.de
  • Title: Siberian origins of Aleuts: Mitochondrial DNA evidence .
    Michael H. Crawford, Ph.D
    Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
    Department of Anthropology
    University of Kansas, Lawerence, KS 66045
    e-mail: crawford@ku.edu
  • Title: Yet to be announced.
    Michael Hammer, Ph.D.
    Genomic Analysis and Technology Core (GATC)
    Division of Biotechnology
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    Biosciences West room 239
    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
    e-mail: mhammer@u.arizona.edu
  • Title: Peopling of India - Evidence from autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal polymorphisms .
    Partha P. Majumder, Ph.D.
    Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit
    Indian Statistical Institute
    203, B. T. Road, Kolkata-700108, India
    e-mail: ppm@isical.ac.in
  • Title: Human Y chromosome phylogeography and the origins of populations.
    Peter A. Underhill, Ph.D
    Department of Genetics, Room M302
    300 Pasteur Drive
    Stanford University Medical Center
    Stanford, CA 94305-5120
    e-mail: under@stanford.edu
  • Title: Origin and migration of Dravidians: HLA & Y chromosome markers .
    R. M. Pitchappan, Ph.D.
    Department of Immunology
    School of Biological Sciencesc
    Centre for Advance Studies in Functional Genomics
    Madurai Kamaraj university, Madurai-625021, India
    e-mails: pitchappanrm@yahoo.co.uk
  • Title: Diversity at single nucleotide polymorphisms in Southeast Asian populations.
    Ranjan Deka, Ph.D.
    Center for Genome Information
    University of Cincinnati
    331 Kettering, Cincinnati, OH
    e-mail: dekar@ucmail.uc.edu
  • Title: Dual origin of maternal lineages in Afroasiatic speaking people .
    Richard Villems, Ph.D.
    Estonian Biocentre
    23 Riia St., 51010 Tartu, Estonia
    e-mail : rvillems@ebc.ee
  • Title: Genetic affinity of some East Eurasian population s .
    Saitou Naruya, Ph.D.
    Division of Population Genetics
    National Institute of Genetics
    Mishima, 411-8540 JAPAN
    e-mail: nsaitou@genes.nig.ac.jp
  • Title: Panorama of Alu genetic variation in Indian subcontinent .
    Sarabjit Mastana, Ph.D.
    Human Genetics Lab
    Department of Human Sciences
    Loughborough University, Loughborough
    LE11 3TU, UK.
    e-mail: S.S.Mastana@lboro.ac.uk
  • Title: The Eurasian heartland:  Central Asia in Eurasian prehistory .
    Spencer Wells, Ph.D.
    Trinity Hall
    Castle Hedingham
    Essex CO9 3EY, UK
    e-mail: spencer_wells@hotmail.com
  • Title: Different sources of Indian Y chromosomes and mitochondria .
    Toomas Kivisild, Ph.D.
    Estonian Biocentre
    23 Riia St., 51010 Tartu, Estonia
    e-mail: Toomas.kivisild@stanford.edu
  • Title: Molecular phylogeny of Austro-Asiatic tribes in India.
    V. R. Rao, Ph.D.
    Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology
    Uppal Road,  Hyderabad-500007, India
    e-mail: raovr@ccmb.res.in
  • Title: Human dispersal processes illuminated by uniparental genetic markers.
    Vincent A. Macaulay, Ph.D.
    Dept of Statistics, University of Oxford
    1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, U.K.
    e-mail: macaulay@stats.ox.ac.uk
  • Title: Population structure and history in East Asia (or China) as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence .
    Ya-ping Zhang, Ph.D.
    Kunming Institute of Zoology
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Beijing, China
    e-mail: Zhangyp@public.km.yn.cn
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