Day 1
Registration: 8:45 - 9:25
9:25 - 9:40
Welcome
SESSION 1. Genes, Languages, and Culture: Transmission, Isolation, and Contact. Chair: Chiara Barbieri, Balthasar Bickel
9:40 - 10:20
Global and local studies of genetic and linguistic evolution
10:20 - 11:00
Selected talks
Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:50
Selected talks
Lunch and Poster session 12:50 - 14:30
SESSION 2. Genetic evidence for food Adaptation. Chair: Carla Calò, Serena Tucci
14:30 - 15:10
Invited Keynote: Mark Thomas, UCL London
Dairying, Disease and the Evolution of Lactase Persistence in Europe
15:10 - 15:50
Selected talks
Coffee Break 15:50 - 16:20
16:20 - 17:20
Selected talks
Free Evening
Day 2
SESSION 3. Sex-Biased Demography and the Evolution of Kinship. Chair: Paolo Francalacci, Martin Kuhlwilm
9:30 - 10:10
Invited Keynote: Joachim Burger, University of Mainz
Demographic Shifts, family structures and Roman legacy in Early Medieval Central Europe
10:10 - 10:50
Selected talks
Coffee Break 10:50 - 11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Selected talks
Lunch and Poster session 12:40 - 14:30
SESSION 4. Population Structure, Health, and Microbiomes. Chair: Andrea Angius, Luca Pagani
14:30 - 15:10
Invited Keynote: Rodrigo Barquera, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
The Immune Memory of a Mesoamerican Catastrophe
15:10 - 15:50
Selected talks
Coffee Break 15:50 - 16:20
16:20. -17:20
Selected talks
20:00 Social dinner at Ristorante Sa Marina (for registered participants)
Day 3
SESSION 5. Cultural Transitions and Modeling. Chair: Sandra Oliveira, Andrea Migliano
9:30 - 10:10
Invited Keynote: Dilek Koptekin, University of Lausanne
Unravelling Cultural and Genetic Interactions during the Aegean Neolithisation
10:10 - 10:50
Selected talks
Coffee Break 10:50 - 11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Selected talks
12:40 - 13:00
Round table and final discussion