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The workshop featured a lecture series by Noah Rosenberg and Mittias Jakobsson, Department of Human Genetics and Bioinformatics Program University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA on

Human Evolutionary Genetics

as well as presentations by other participants.

This workshop will cover new results about human genetic variation that are emerging from modern genomic studies. Topics will include human population history and geographic structure, the role of natural selection during the human expansion into new environments, and spatial perspectives on genetic variation. The course will also give an overview of data analysis approaches and software packages useful studies both in human evolution and in molecular ecology.

Program

Day 1.

Overview of human evolutionary genetics (~2 hours)

An outline of recent human evolutionary history with a focus on the view from genetics

Patterns of genetic variation across human populations (~1.5 hours)

Practical lab exercise in which we will search through microsatellite data for signals of human migrations

Day 2.

Case study: the Americas (~2 hours)

Genetic variation in native and admixed populations of the Americas

Measuring the geographic distributions of alleles (~1.5 hours)

Practical lab exercise focusing on allelic distributions

Day 3.

Population-genetic theory of human evolution (~4 hours)

Pedigrees, genealogies, most recent common ancestors, and the coalescent

Day 4.

Evolutionary genetics of domesticated organisms (~1 hour)

The impact of humans on genetic variation in domesticated plants and animals

Genetic signatures of adaptation (~1 hour)

The role of natural selection in shaping genetic variation across human populations

Population structure (~1.5 hours)

Practical lab exercise on the inference and analysis of population structure

Day 5.

Human evolutionary genetics and the search for disease-susceptibility genes (~2 hours)

The importance of human evolution for genetic mapping

Open questions in human evolutionary genetics (~1.5 hours)

A survey of current developments and prospects for future work

Getting to Midreshet Ben-Gurion and the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies

Reaching Beer-Sheva from Tel-Aviv is best done by trains. Timetable of trains. From Jerusalem you should better take the Egged direct bus. Timetable of busses.
To Midreshet Ban-Gurion take Metropolin bus #60 from Beer-Sheva's Egged Central bus station. Timetable of Metropolin busses.
Please use this map to get to the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies.

Timetable

	Sat, March 24	Sun, March 25	Mon, March 26	Tues, March 27	Wed, March 28	Thurs, March 29
08:00 – 08:20		Arrival and check-in	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast	Breakfast
08:30 – 10:00			Human evolutionary genetics	Human evolutionary genetics	Human evolutionary genetics	Human evolutionary genetics
10:00 – 10:45	Early arrival
10:45 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30			Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00 – 18:00		Human evolutionary genetics	Excursion: The Yerucham Iris reserve and the Chatira crater	Excursion: Shivta ruins	Excursion: Nekarot/ Ramon crater	Checkout
19:00 – 20:00		Dinner	Dinner	Dinner	Party Dinner
20:30 – 21:30		Shavel Itzkovitch "Using somatic genomic variability to study cell lineage relations"	Adi Stern "Positive selection and Ka/Ks"	Lior David "Genetic variability and population structure of the common carp"	Sagi Snir "Lateral Transfer: How Tree-Like is the Tree of Life?"
21:30 - ??		Social.	Social	Social	Social

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