Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics

Time (Europe/Berlin)	Speaker
12:00 – 13:30	Arrival and registration with light refreshments
13:30 – 13:45	Opening remarks by scientific organisers
13:45 – 15:00	Session 1 – Genomic analyses of our closest living and extinct relatives
13:45 – 14:15	There and back again: a long history of gene flow between Neandertals and modern humans Janet Kelso – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
14:15 – 14:30	Genome from 50,000 year old Neanderthal reveals deeply diverged and isolated late Neanderthal population in western Europe Tharsika Vimala – University of Copenhagen, Denmark Not available on demand
14:30 – 14:45	The evolution of introgressed Neandertal segments through space and time: insights from ancient and present-day human genomes Leonardo Nicola Martin Iasi – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
14:45 – 15:00	The genetic history of Vindija Neandertals Arev Pelin Sumer – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: Janet Kelso, Greger Larson and Daniel Bradley
15:30 – 16:45	Session 2 – Genetic history of domestication
15:30 – 16:00	Domestication and the time depth of phylogeographic structuring Greger Larson – University of Oxford, UK
16:00 – 16:15	Dual ancestry of dogs and the early dogs of Europe Anders Bergström – The Francis Crick Institute, UK
16:15 – 16:45	Four legs good: ancient animal genomics and the Near Eastern origins of cattle, sheep and goat Daniel Bradley – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Not available on demand
16:45 – 17:15	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: Aida Andrés and Lluis Quintana-Murci
17:15 – 19:00	Session 3 – Detecting patterns of natural selection (part 1)
17:15 – 17:45	Reconstructing human genetic adaptations: adapting to cold habitats Aida Andrés – University College London, UK
17:45 – 18:00	Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe Gaspard Kerner – Institut Pasteur, France
18:00 – 18:30	Ancient and modern admixture in human adaptation to pathogens Lluís Quintana-Murci – Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, France
18:30 – 19:00	Flash talk session 1 (3 min, 1 slide) #47 – Lucas Anchieri #59 – Ainash Childebayeva #68 – Michal Feldman #78 – Martin Kuhlwilm #82 – Arthur Kocher #88 – Megan Michel #102 – Stephane Peyregne #109 – Lehti Saag #115 – Lucia Spangenberg Not available on demand
19:00 – 20:30	Dinner
20:30 – 22:00	Social event: science pub quiz (EMBL Canteen) and networking drinks (ATC Foyer)

Time (Europe/Berlin)	Speaker
09:00 – 10:30	Session 3 – Detecting patterns of natural selection (part 2)
09:00 – 09:30	Using ancient DNA to learn about recent human evolution Iain Mathieson – University of Pennsylvania, USA
09:30 – 09:45	A simulation framework to explore and detect epidemic-driven selection Cindy Santander – University of Copenhagen, Denmark Not available on demand
09:45 – 10:00	Admixture facilitated adaptation in Neolithic Europe Tom Davy – The Francis Crick Institute, UK
10:00 – 10:30	Interpreting polygenic scores across time and space Molly Przeworski – Columbia University, USA Not available on demand
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: Iain Mathieson, Molly Przeworski and Carina Schlebusch
11:00 – 16:30	Session 4 – Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations (part 1)
11:00 – 11:30	Ancient DNA studies and African population history Carina Schlebusch – Uppsala University, Sweden
11:30 – 11:45	The genomic diversity of Taiwanese Austronesian groups: implications for the ‘Into and Out of Taiwan’ models Dang Liu – Institut Pasteur, France Not available on demand
11:45 – 12:00	100,000 years of selection in Ice Age grey wolves Pontus Skoglund – The Francis Crick Institute, UK
12:00 – 12:15	Modern human genetic variation during the Holocene at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) Sandra Oliveira – University of Bern, Switzerland
12:15 – 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 14:15	The genetic history of Ice Age Europe: 2nd season Cosimo Posth – University of Tübingen, Germany Not available on demand
14:15 – 14:30	The genomic landscape of contemporary western Remote Oceanians Lara R Araúna – Institut Pasteur, France
14:30 – 14:45	The genetic history of the southern Andes reconstructed from present day Mapuche-Huilliche ancestry Chiara Barbieri – University of Zurich, Switzerland Not available on demand
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: Cosimo Posth and Choongwon Jeong
15:15 – 15:45	Disentangling layers of human migration and mixture in inner Eurasia with ancient genomes Choongwon Jeong – Seoul National University, South Korea
15:45 – 16:00	Genomic signals of continuity and admixture in the Caucasus Ayshin Ghalichi – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
16:00 – 16:30	Flash talk session 2 (3 min, 1 slide) #48 – Mathilde André #66 – Roberta Davidson #72 – Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone #79 – Yilei Huang #84 – Liisa Loog #95 – Eleftheria Orfanou #103 – Divyaratan Popli #112 – Jakob Sedig #120 – Vanessa Villalba-Mouco Not available on demand
16:30 – 18:00	Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)
18:00	Free evening

Time (Europe/Berlin)	Speaker
08:15 – 09:00	Career workshop Hosted by Patricia Cabezas – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Panellists: – María Ávila-Arcos – National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico – Choongwon Jeong – Seoul National University, South Korea – Aida Andrés – University College London, UK
09:00 – 10:30	Session 4 – Reconstructing the genetic history of human populations (part 2)
09:00 – 09:30	Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico María Ávila-Arcos – National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
09:30 – 09:45	A micro-scale investigation of Georgia’s population history from diachronic archaogenomic data Eirini Skourtanioti – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
09:45 – 10:00	Demogenomic modeling of the timing and the processes of world early farmers differentiation Nina Marchi – University of Bern, Switzerland
10:00 – 10:30	Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe Mark Thomas – University College London, UK
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: María Ávila-Arcos, Mark Thomas, Kristian Kristiansen and Mary Prendergast
11:00 – 15:00	Session 5 – Combining genetics and historical evidence
11:00 – 11:30	Genetics and archaeology – the way forward Kristian Kristiansen – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
11:30 – 11:45	Insights from unprecedentedly large family trees from the Neolithic site of Gurgy in France Wolfgang Haak – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
11:45 – 12:15	Challenges in reconciling genomic and archaeological data in Africa’s past Mary Prendergast – Rice University, USA
12:15 – 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 14:15	Reconstructing ancient kinship practices with aDNA: the Hazleton North case Iñigo Olalde – University of Basque Country, Spain
14:15 – 14:30	Pater semper incertus: historical-genomic reconstruction of extra-pair paternity behaviour in human Western populations (1500-1900) Maarten H. D. Larmuseau – KU Leuven, Belgium
14:30 – 15:00	Comparing and contrasting local genetic structure amongst densely sampled early medieval cemeteries Krishna Veeramah – Stony Brook University, USA (Virtual speaker)
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: Iñigo Olalde and Anne Stone
15:30 – 17:00	Session 6 – Evolution of human pathogens and our microbiome
15:30 – 16:00	Ancient tuberculosis in the Americas Anne Stone – Arizona State University, USA
16:00 – 16:15	Early diversity and evolution of Yersinia pestis from the late Neolithic and Bronze Age Gunnar Neumann – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
16:15 – 16:30	Transmission routes of the Hepatitis B virus in early medieval Europe Alina Hiss – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
16:30 – 17:00	Flash talk session 3 (3 min, 1 slide) #55 – Davide Bozzi #67 – Arun Durvasula #74 – Joscha Gretzinger #80 – Miren Iraeta-Orbegozo #87 – Mait Metspalu #101 – Sandra Penske #107 – Adam Ben Rohrlach #114 – Prajjval Pratap Singh Not available on demand
17:00 – 18:30	Poster Session 2 (even numbers)
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
20:00 – 22:00	Social event: after dinner drinks with live jazz music (ATC Rooftop Lounge)

Time (Europe/Berlin)	Speaker
09:00 – 12:00	Session 7 – Methods for improving the analysis of ancient genomic data
09:00 – 09:30	Direct spatiotemporal mapping of ancient human genomes to estimate large scale mobility dynamics Stephan Schiffels – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
09:30 – 09:45	An ancient DNA aware short-read mapper: mapAD J. Christian Heide – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
09:45 – 10:00	Identification of long shared haplotypes in ancient DNA – Inferring distant relatives and recent demography Harald Ringbauer – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
10:00 – 10:15	Imputation of ancient genomes Bárbara Sousa da Mota – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break and Meet the speakers with: J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar
10:45 – 11:00	On the limits of fitting admixture graphs to allele frequency data Pavel Flegontov – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
11:00 – 11:15	Looking for variants in a haystack: inferring population structure using rare variation Thiseas C. Lamnidis – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany Not available on demand
11:15 – 11:30	High-throughput approach for inference of archaic introgression models Jan Kocí – University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
11:30 – 12:00	Ancient Rapanui genomes reveal pre-European trans-Pacific contact with Indigenous Americans J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar – University of Copenhagen, Denmark Not available on demand
12:00 – 12:15	Closing remarks and poster prize
12:15	Packed lunch and departure
13:00	Optional: Shuttle bus to Frankfurt Airport (Terminal 1) Tickets can be purchased during the conference for 25 EUR

Accommodation is not included in the conference registration fee.

As further changes in our events are possible due to COVID-19, you should book flights, trains and hotels with flexible options and favourable cancellation conditions.

The hotels below have rooms on hold for participants until 12 August 2022, in some cases at special rates. Please quote the booking code EES22-09 and confirm the exact price of the room with the hotel directly.

Hotel Anlage	Hotel Holländer Hof	Hotel Monpti
Hotel Bayrischer Hof	Hotel ibis Heidelberg	Premier Inn Heidelberg City
B&B Hotel	Leonardo Hotel Heidelberg City Centre	Staycity Aparthotel Heidelberg
Exzellenz Hotel & Boarding House	Meininger Heidelberg	Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Heidelberg

Conference shuttle buses

Conference shuttle buses are free of charge for participants, and depart from designated bus stops near the hotels to EMBL and back, mornings and evenings.

Download the bus schedule here.

The bus stops for this conference are:

• Staycity Aparthotels (Speyerer Str. 7)
• Kurfürsten-Anlage (close to Main Train Station)
• Premier Inn (Kurfürsten-Anlage 23)
• Leonardo Hotel City Centre (Bergheimer Str. 63)
• Neckarmünzplatz
• Peterskirche

View Conference shuttle bus stops and hotels in a larger map. Please note that not every bus stop will be used for every event.

Further details

Address: EMBL, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. For further information on getting to EMBL Heidelberg visit Public Transportation to the Venue. For information about accommodation and local transportation please refer to the FAQ page.

Catering

All meals and coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. Our catering staff will prepare a wide variety of vegetarian meals, meat and fish dishes, soups, pasta, fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as a variety of desserts.

Please wear your badge at all times when serving yourself.

No food or drinks are allowed in the auditorium.

Charging lockers

There are lockers available next to the stairs leading down into the Auditorium. You will find some of those equipped with sockets to charge your smartphone/tablet etc.

Electricity and charging station

In most places the electricity is 220 volts AC (50 cycles). An adaptor and a plug that fits the German socket may be needed for your appliances/laptop (i.e. American, Japanese, etc.). A USB charging station for electronic devices is available at the registration desk.

EMBL merchandise

EMBL Merchandise is available on Mon – Thu (9 am – 12 pm). If you are interested in purchasing an EMBL souvenir (products presented in the glass display in the registration area), please ask at the registration desk for more information.

Health and safety notes

Please read EMBL’s COVID-19 safety policy for on-site events.
Do not smoke in any EMBL building.
Eating and drinking is prohibited in the Auditorium and all laboratories.
Do not enter any restricted areas or the laboratories unless instructed to do so.

If first aid is required …

• The first aid room is located next to the ATC Registration Desk (room 10- 205).
• Dial the Emergency number 222 from any EMBL internal phone only.
• Where is the accident? What happened? How many injured?
• Emergency number 06221-387 7821 from mobile phones.
• Please report all accidents to the conference officer at the registration desk.

In case of fire …

• Press the nearest fire alarm button or the Emergency number 222 from any internal phone.
• A loud fire alarm will go off if an evacuation is required. On hearing the alarm leave the building immediately following the escape route and fire wardens and head to one of the meeting points
• Do not use the lifts.

Beyond first aid…

Please remember to bring your own medication, if needed, to the conference. Note that the next pharmacy is a 4-minute drive from the EMBL, but for many medications you will be required to see a doctor to get a prescription.

Ensure in advance that your medical insurance will cover you during your visit in the event that you do need to see a doctor while in Heidelberg. In any case, the EMBL Course and Conference Office will assist you to get to the pharmacy and a doctor of your choice if necessary.

Internet

Wi-Fi is available everywhere on the premises (no password required), just log on to ATC-Guest. The eduroam network (secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community) is also available.

Lost and found

‘’Lost and Found’’ are kept at the registration desk until the end of the conference.

Luggage

There are lockers available on-site to store your luggage, which require a 2 EURO coin to operate. There is another luggage room on level E0, which is free to use but remains unlocked during the conference.

Nursing room

There is a nursing room available in the ATC Rooftop Lounge on level A29.

Photography

During the conference an EMBL Photographer may be taking photographs. If you would not like to appear in these, please inform the photographer or a member of the Course and Conference Office.

Printing

We can help printing your boarding passes/train ticket. Please send it to events@embl.de and collect your print-outs at the registration desk.

Room for prayer, yoga and meditation

There is a room for prayer, mediation and yoga located on level E0 behind the Auditorium. Please be respectful of other participants using the room.

Sightseeing

A variety of activities in Heidelberg can be found on this website: www.heidelberg-marketing.com

Travel to and from the venue

During the event we provide conference shuttle busses to and from EMBL. In addition, there is the public bus 39A that serves the EMBL campus and taxis can be easily booked at any time. Information on the conference shuttle busses can be found on the individual event website and more detailed information on travelling to EMBL can be found on our Travel Information page.

Useful German expressions

English	German
Hello	Hallo
Goodbye	Auf Wiedersehen
Good morning	Guten Morgen
Good afternoon	Guten Tag
Good evening	Guten Abend
Good night	Gute Nacht
I’m sorry	Tut mir leid
Excuse me…	Entschuldigen Sie
How are you?	Wie geht’s?
I’m fine thanks. And you?	Mir geht es gut , danke, und dir/Ihnen?
What is your name	Wie heisst du? Wie heissen Sie?
My name is	Ich heisse
Do you speak English	Sprechen Sie Englisch?
I don’t understand	Ich verstehe nicht
Please speak more slowly	Können Sie bitte langsamer sprechen
Thank you	Danke schön
Where is the toilet?	Wo ist die Toilette?
Please call me a taxi	Bitte rufen Sie mir ein Taxi
How do I get to….?	Wie komme ich zum/zur…..?
A beer/two beers, please	Ein Bier/zwei Bier bitte
A glass of red/white wine please	Ein Glas Rot/Weisswein bitte
The menu, please	Die Speisekarte, bitte
Is there a local speciality?	Gibt es eine Spezialität aus dieser Gegend?
I’m Vegetarian	Ich bin Vegetarier
It was delicious	Es war hervorragend
The bill, please	Die Rechnung, bitte
I have a headache	Ich habe Kopfschmerzen
I have a sore throat	Ich habe Halsschmerzen
My stomach hurts	Ich habe Magenschmerzen
I’m allergic to	Ich bin allergisch gegen
I need a doctor who speaks English	Gibt es einen Arzt, der Englisch spricht?

What’s included?

• Access to all the livestreamed talks
• Video library of the recorded talks during and after the event
• Facility to submit questions

Please note that only on-site participants are able to submit abstracts and participate in the poster sessions.

Event platform

We are using an event platform for this conference. More information about the platform will be shared ahead of the conference.

Guidelines

• Do not broadcast the conference to unregistered participants.
• You are encouraged to tweet and post about the event. Tweet unless the speaker specifically says otherwise, but be mindful of unpublished data. 
• Please do not capture, transmit or redistribute data presented at the meeting.

Additional information can be found in our Code of Conduct.

Health and well-being

It is important to stay healthy and move around, especially when you are attending an event virtually. We have put together a few coffee break stretches and yoga videos in the conference platform for you to enjoy during the event.

How to ask questions

Please use the Q&A function in the event platform.

If you have any other questions, you can go to the Help Desk in the event platform. Click on ‘more’ on the top menu and click Help Desk. 

Time zone

The programme is planned based on the Europe/Berlin time zone, unless otherwise stated. Please take your time zone into consideration when planning your attendance.

Please find additional information including FAQs, terms and conditions, COVID-19 safety policy and travelling to EMBL on our Information for Participants page.

COVID-19 information for on-site events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found in our COVID-19 FAQs.