Previous events
Invited speakers and conferences
 
1st. Edition - 1998, March 19-21
Jaume Bertranpetit: STRs and human evolution
  
2nd. Edition - 1999, March 18-20
Francesc Calafell: Microsatellites and human populations
Sérgio Pena: Genetic studies on the pre- and post-Cabralian peopling of Brazil
Matt Hurles: The Y chromosome and human genetic history
  
3rd. Edition - 2000, March 16-18
Millennia of divergence/five centuries of admixture (genes and populations)
(on the celebration of the 500 years of Cabral’s finding of Brazil)
Fabrício Santos: A história das populações brasileiras pre-cabralinas contada pela genética
Guido Barbujani: Genetic evidence on the European prehistory
Sérgio Pena: Retrato Molecular do Brasil
David Comas: Differential sexual migration patterns in Central Asia: comparison of mtDNA sequences and Y-chromosome STRs
  
4th. Edition - 2001, March 21-24
Population genetics of NW Iberia
(included in the events of Porto and Santiago de Compostela European Cultural Capitals)
Gerardo Pereira-Menaut: História do NO peninsular: uma perspectiva multidisciplinar
Vincent Macaulay: Case studies from the phylogeography of human mtDNA
Cristiano Vernesi: Genetic diversity in modern and prehistoric European populations"
Mark Jobling: Y-chromosomal diversity and the prehistory of European populations"
Fabrício Santos: Human Y chromosome diversity in South America
Angel Carracedo: Chips for SNP typing
  
5th. Edition - 2002, March 14-16
Female and male lineages in Iberia: mtDNA and Y chromosome
Vincent Macaulay: Mitochondrial landscape of Europe
Chris Tyler-Smith: Y-STRs: a comprehensive survey
  
6th. Edition - 2003, March 20-22
Human haploid genomes
Lluis Quintana-Murci: The human Y-chromosome: evolution, selection and disease
Lounès Chikhi: Europe, admixture and the coalescent approach
Rene Herrera: From West Africa to the Arabian Peninsula and Back: The Y-specific SNP Story
Toomas Kivisild: The mtDNA variation in Eurasia
Thomas Gilbert: Ancient DNA
Susanna Baqué: New dimension in Gene Expression
  
7th. Edition - 2004, March 18-20
Humans and other domesticates
Simon Davis: The beginnings of animal domestication - some zoo-archaeological evidence from the eastern Mediterranean
Jeremy Searle: Using genetic markers to track human-mediated colonisation of small mammals
Peter Savolainen: mtDNA variation among domestic dogs worldwide: tracing the earliest migrations of dogs
Agnar Helgasson: The genetic legacy of the sexes in the North Atlantic region: mtDNA and Y-chromosomes reveal variable patterns of Norse settlement
Steve Jones: Did Adam meet Eve? The view from the genes.
Pedro Esteves: The history of rabbit domestication.
Xavier Cristina: Integrated solutions for SNP genotyping
  
8th. Edition - 2005, March 17-19
One evolution, four modes of inheritance
Doron Behar: A portrait of a founding event: lessons from the Ashkenazi mtDNA gene pool
Besma Yacoubi Loueslati: Genetic diversity in Jerbian Arabs and Berbers revealed from HVSI mitochondrial sequence analysis
Tim Crow: The speciation of modern Homo sapiens: a hypothesis
Steve Schaffner: Traces of ancient selection in HapMap data: the autosomes and the X chromosome
Xavier Cristina: Genome Wide Expression Profiling Using the Applied Biosystems Expression Array System
  
9th. Edition - 2006, March 16-18
Genes and populations in health and disease
Damian Labuda: Natural selection in the promoter regions: genetic diversity upstream of transcription start sites
João Lavinha: Population genetics helps deciphering the etiological architecture of Mendelian haematological disorders
Angel Carracedo: Looking for the genetic component of complex diseases: The experience of the Spanish National Genotyping Center
Guilherme Kurtz: Pharmacogenomics and population admixture 
Antonio Salas: Epistasis does matter…in association studies
José Carlos Machado: Genetic susceptibility to gastric carcinoma
Manuela Lima: The Machado-Joseph disease gene: ancestral paths and present-day scenarios
Damian Labuda: Reading history of human populations from genetic diversity of chromosome Xp21
Maria João Saraiva: Dissection of molecular mechanisms involved in a Portuguese Amyloid Disease through gene analyses
Xavier Cristina: Analysis of microRNA and siRNA using Taqman Assays
Maria João Saraiva: Dissection of molecular mechanisms involved in a Portuguese Amyloid Disease through gene analyses
Xavier Cristina: Analysis of microRNA and siRNA using Taqman Assays

10th. Edition - 2007, March 22-24
Jaume Bertranpetit - Worldwide variation in genes that mediate the response to pathogens.
Silvia Fuselli - Diversity and evolution at loci of pharmacogenetic interest
Laurent Excoffier - Simulation and tests of alternative models of human evolution
Lounés Chikhi. Models of Human Origins and Human Diversity
Antti Sajantila - The role of DNA identification in mass fatalities
Chris Phillips - Population of origin tests with autosomal SNPs.
Jukka Palo – Differing tales - maternal, paternal and biparental marker diversity within Finland
Angel Carracedo - Forensic genetics: Integrating forensic science.
João Caldeira - SOLID, The next generation.

11th. Edition - 2008, March 27-28
Tales of comparative genomics and evolution
Michael Lynch - The origins of genome complexity
Ana Goios - Inbred mice as an evolutionary model
Isabel Alonso - New insights from the natural mutant mouse leaner
Leonor Gusmão - MtDNA and Y-STRs heterogeneity in chimpanzee subspecies
José L. Gómez-Skarmeta - Comparative genomics for the study of development, evolution and genetic diseases
Alexandra Lopes - X&Y, a long lasting genomic affair
Luís Barreiro - Detecting natural selection on the human genome: the case of innate immunity
Fyodor Kondrashov - Macroevolutionary implications of compensatory pathogenic deviations
Filipe Pereira - A comparative approach to the evolution of mitochondrial DNA
Henrique Teotónio -The genetic basis of adaptation to new environments in sexually reproducing species
Jorge Vieira - Protein evolution of homeobox genes
Manolis Dermitzakis – Regulatory variation and evolution in humans
Luís Costa -  An outsider’s view of comparative genomics

12th. Edition - 2009, March 19-20
From genomes to organisms: an evolutionary perspective
Daniel Weinreich (BROWN UNIV., USA) - Predicting molecular evolutionary trajectories in principle and in practice
Isabel Gordo (IGC, PORTUGAL) - Mutation, selection and genetic interactions in bacteria
Luísa Azevedo (IPATIMUP, PORTUGAL) - Epistatic interactions: when the mechanism meets the process
Hernán Dopazo (CIPF, SPAIN) - Genome-scale analysis of adaptation: a functional system approach
Ana Margarida Damas (IBMC, PORTUGAL) - Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy – from crystals to therapy
Henrik Kaessmann (LAUSANNE UNIV., SWITZERLAND) - RNA-based gene duplication provides unique insights into mammalian
José Leal (IGC, PORTUGAL) - Gene loss in intracellular parasites
Raquel Silva (IPATIMUP, PORTUGAL) - Evolution through proteome destabilization
Alfonso Valencia (CNB, SPAIN) - Extracting protein interactions from genomes and text
Rune Matthiesen (IPATIMUP, PORTUGAL) - Gene expression networks


13th. Edition - 2010, March 18-19
Genome Anatomy
Dan Graur (University of Houston, USA) - Overlappingenes: Using evolutionary principles to distinguish real from spurious reading frames
Conceição Bettencourt (University of the Azores, Portugal) - Sequence Analysis of 5' Regulatory Regions of Machado-Joseph Disease Gene (ATXN3) in Patients and Controls
Rita Quental (IPATIMUP, Portugal) - Functional diversification after gene duplication: the PMM1 and PMM2 case
Miguel Fonseca (CIBIO Portugal) - A new method for detection of compositional strand asymmetries in vertebrate mitochondrial genomes
Gertraud Burger (University of Montreal, Canada) - Experimental and in silico analysis of post-transcriptional processes in mitochondria
Franz Lang (University of Montreal, Canada) - Eukaryotic evolution - a comparative mitochondrial-nuclear genome perspective
Michael Cummings (University of Maryland, USA) - Quantifying lineage divergence across the genome: the ‘genealogical sorting index’
Inês Soares (IPATIMUP, Portugal) - Circumventing sequence alignment: Proportion of string lengh or vectorization identity as proxies for genetic similarity
Jorge Vieira (IBMC, Portugal) - Identifying exclusive patterns in unaligned sets of sequences
Pedro Albuquerque (IBMC, Portugal) - In silico workflow for the selection of bacterial taxa-specific diagnostic markers
Susana Vinga (INESC-ID, Portugal) - New applications of alignment-free methods for biological sequence analysis and comparison"
Bernhard Haubold (Max Planck Institute, Germany) - Alignment-free genome comparison using shortest unique substrings (shustrings)


14th. Edition - 2011, March 17-18
Model Organisms: humans et al.
Matthew Rockman (New York University, USA)"Genetic Consequences of Selfing in C. elegans"
Patrícia Maciel (ICVS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)"Modelling neurogenetic diseases in C. elegans"
Henrique Teotónio (IGC, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) "Experimental population genetics under alternative mating systems in C. elegans"
Daniel Weinreich (Brown University, Providence, USA)"Dissecting Life History Evolution: Bacteriophage as a Model System"
Isabel Sá-Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal) "Chemical stress defense mechanisms in the Yeast model: a systems-biology approach"
Manuela Côrte-Real (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) "What yeast can tell us about how cells commit suicide?"
Michael E. Pfrender (Notre Dame University, USA) "Genome Structure, Functional Diversification, and Genome X Environment interactions in Daphnia"
Tiago F. Outeiro (Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, Portugal) "Neurodegenerative diseases: from model organisms to novel therapies"
Ana Goios (IPATIMUP, Porto, Portugal) "The (hi)story of mouse genetics"
Damian Labuda (Montreal University, Canada) "Reading populations' histories from their genetic records"
Rui Faria (CIBIO, Universidade do Porto, Portugal) "Chromosomal speciation: theoretical models, empirical evidence and model organisms"