SOKENDAI Symposium
Modern Human Diversity on Genes and Culture
- with special reference to Asia and Oceania -

Dates: February 3rd and 4th, 2014
Place: SOKENDAI Headquarter, Hayama, Japan
Funded by SOKENDAI

Notes.  
1) SOKENDAI is abbreviation of Japanese name for "Graduate University for Advanced Studies".
2) Talk time for  invited foreign speakers and special lecture by SOKENDAI President Dr. Takahata is 40 min. Talk time for other speakers is 30 min. Talk time includes questions and discussions.
3) There is no registration fee for this symposium.
4) Ther are some poster presentations.
5) All talks and discussions will be in English.

==> Abstracts

Program
 (as of February 3rd, 2014) 

### Day 1: Monday, February 3rd, 2014

12:00 - 13:00 Registration

13:00 - 13:50 Session 0 (Chair: Yoko Satta)

13:00 - 13:10 Opening remarks by Naruya Saitou

13:10 - 13:50 Special Lecture (Speaker: Naoyuki Takahata)
Title: Demography and natural selection in the human lineage

13:50 - 15:10 Session 1 (Chair: Ritsuko Kikusawa)

13:50 - 14:30 Talk 1 (Speaker: Peter Bellwood)
Title: Neolithic foundation migrations from Formosa to Lapita, 2200 to 1000 BC: archaeological, linguistic and genetic perspectives

14:30 - 15:10 Talk 2 (Speaker: Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith)
Title: Is it time to reconsider our models for Pacific prehistory? Evidence from ancient and modern human and commensal studies

15:10 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee break

15:30 - 18:10 Session 2 (Chair: Naruya Saitou)

15:30 - 16:00 Talk 3 (Speaker: Michiko Intoh)
Title: Human migrations and/or cultural contacts in Oceania

16:00 - 16:40 Talk 4 (Speaker: Mark Stoneking)
Title: Into and Out of Taiwan: Genetic Evidence Concerning the Austronesian Expansion

16:40 - 17:10 Talk 5 (Speaker: Yoshio Yamaoka)
Title: Human migrations inferred by Helicobacter pylori genes

17:10 - 17:40 Talk 6 (Speaker: John Whitman)
Title: Pre-Zhou languages on the Chinese litoral: Reassessing old ideas about Tai-Kadai, Austronesian, and Japanese

17:40 - 18:10 Talk 7 (Speaker: Minoru Sakamoto)
Title: Application of radiocarbon dating for archeology

18:30 - 20:30 Symposium Dinner and Poster Session


### Day 2: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

9:00 - 11:50 Session 3 (Chair: Peter Bellwood)

9:00 - 9:30 Talk 8 (Speaker: Jun Gojobori)
Title: mtDNA variation in Mesoamerica and human migrations to New World

9:30 - 10:00 Talk 9 (Speaker: Ritsuko Kikusawa)
Title: Culture contact and language diversity in Oceania

10:00 - 10:40 Talk 10 (Speaker: Koji Lum)
Title: Human settlement, malaria, and chronic diseases of the Pacific

10:40 - 11:20 Talk 11 (Speaker: Maude Phipps)
Title: Population structure and Adaptation in Indigenous tribes of Malaysia

11:20 - 11:50 Talk 12 (Speaker: Timothy Jinam)
Title: Genome-wide SNP studies of Malaysian and Philippine Negritos

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 Session 4 (Chair: Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith)

13:00 - 13:30 Talk 13 (Speaker: Peter Joseph Matthews)
Title: Natural habitats, human habitats, and the spread of edible aroids

13:30 - 14:00 Talk 14 (Speaker: Hitomi Hongo)
Title: Resource exploitation in the early Neolithic and the transision to food production: zooarchaeological evidence from Southwest Asia

14:00 - 14:30 Talk 15 (Speaker: Ryohei Takahashi)
Title: Zooarchaeological study of introduction of Sus scrofa into the prehistoric Ryukyu Islands based on ancient DNA analysis

14:30 - 15:00 Talk 16 (Speaker: Masahiko Kumagai)
Title: Domestication history of rice inferred by ancient DNA and modern genomics

15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Cofee break

15:30 - 17:30 Session 5 (Chair: Mark Stoneking)

15:30 - 16:00 Talk 17 (Speaker: Shuhei Mano)
Title: Approximate Baysian computation in population genomics

16:00 - 16:30 Talk 18 (Speaker: Ituro Inoue)
Title: Detection of ancestry informative HLA alleles confirms the admixed origins of Japanese population

16:30 - 17:00 Talk 19 (Speaker: Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama)
Title: Jomon genomics

17:00 - 17:30 Talk 20 (Speaker: Naruya Saitou)
Title: Origin and establishment of Japonesians

17:30 - 18:00 General discussion (Chair: Naruya Saitou)

List of speakers and chairpersons
Peter Bellwood, Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Jun Gojobori*, Assistant Professor, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan
Hitomi Hongo*, Associate Professor, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan
Ituro Inoue*, Professor, National Institute of Genetics & SOKENDAI, Mishima, Japan
Michiko Intoh*, Professor, National Ethnological Museum & SOKENDAI, Suita, Japan
Timothy Jinam*, Post-doctoral fellow, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama*, Ph.D. student, SOKENDAI, Mishima, Japan
Ritsuko Kikusawa*, Associate Professor, National Ethnological Museum & SOKENDAI, Suita, Japan
Masahiko Kumagai, Post-doctoral fellow, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan 
Koji Lum, Professor, Binghamton University, Binghamton, U.S.A.
Shuhei Mano*, Associate Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics & SOKENDAI, Tachikawa, Japan 
Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, Professor, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Peter J. Matthews, Associate Professor, National Ethnological Museum & SOKENDAI, Suita, Japan
Maude Phipps, Professor, Monash University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
Naruya Saitou*, Professor, National Institute of Genetics & SOKENDAI, Mishima, Japan
Minoru Sakamoto*, Professor, REKIHAKU & SOKENDAI, Sakura, Japan
Yoko Satta*, Professor, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan
Mark Stoneking, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leibzig, Germany
Ryohei Takahashi*, Post-doctoral fellow, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan
Naoyuki Takahata, President, SOKENDAI, Hayama, Japan
John Whitman, Professor, National Institute of Japanese Language, Tachikawa, Japan
Yoshio Yamaoka*, Professor, Oita University, Oita, Japan

*Member of SOKENDAI Strategic Research Project 

"Comprehensive study on creation of genetic and cultural diversity through modern human dispersal" 

chaired by Naruya Saitou