Program

GENEALOGY AND THE SCIENCES Program

Monday, December 17
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:00-08:45	Registration and Gathering
08:00-08:30	Welcome
08:30-08:40	Daniel Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL Opening & Intro
08:40-08:45	Neville Lamdan, International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center, ISRAEL Greetings
08:45-10:25	Session I Chair: Stephen P. Morse
08:45-09:25	Yaniv Erlich, Chief Science Officer, MyHeritage, USA Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA Adjunct Core Member, New York Genome Center, USA Crowd Sourcing Genealogy has Immense Potential for Biomedical Research
09:25-09:55	Alexander Beider, Independent scholar, FRANCE Use of Onomastic, Linguistic and Genealogical Data to Unravel Jewish History
09:55-10:25	Thomas Kollatz, Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institute, GERMANY Epigraphic Research Data as Source for Onomastics and Genealogy: The Case of epidat, the Research Platform for Jewish Epigraphy
10:25-10:45	Coffee/ Tea
10:25-10:45
10:45-12:45	Session II Chair: Sallyann Amdur Sack
10:45-11:15	Daniel Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL Genealogy Belongs to Academia
11:15-11:45	Karl Skorecki, Dean,The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL Identity and Relatedness: Genealogy, Genetics and Geography
11:45-12:15	Eli Sprecher, Division of Dermatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, ISRAEL Rarity in Translation: Skin Hereditary Disorders as a Paradigm
12:15-12:45	Aaron Demsky, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL The Hebraization of Jewish Names: The Echo of Millennia
12:45-13:50	Lunch
12:45-13:50
13:50-15:50	Session III Chair: Neville Lamdan
13:50-14:20	Nachum Dershowitz, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL Dating Problems
14:20-14:50	Sallyann Amdur Sack, Psychologist and Editor, AVOTAYNU, the International Review of Jewish Genealogy, USA What Psychology Can Contribute to Genealogy and What Genealogy Can Contribute to Psychology
14:50-15:20	Gil Atzmon, The Department of Neurobiology, Haifa University, ISRAEL Saw You at Sinai? The Jewish Genome in the Jewish History Perspective
15:20-15:50	Liran Carmel, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL The Genetics of Bronze and Iron Age Populations of the Levant
15:50-16:10	Coffee/ Tea
15:50-16:10
16:10-18:10	Session IV Chair: Karl Skorecki
16:10-16:40	Shai Carmi, School of Public Health, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL Inferring the Past Demography of Founder Populations Using Haplotype Sharing
16:40-17:10	Kamila Klauzinska, Independent researcher, POLAND Walking Among Colors in Polish Cemeteries
17:10-17:40	Itsik Pe'er, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA Ancient DNA Elucidates Historic Migrations
17:40-18:10	Yosef Stepansky, Israel Antiquities Authority, ISRAEL The Epitaphs from the 16th and 17th Centuries in the Ancient Jewish Cemetery of Safed: An Archeological Site with a Genealogical Contribution?

Tuesday, December 18
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:00-10:30	Session V Chair: Alexander Beider
08:00-08:30	Gathering
08:30-09:00	Bernard Derrida, College de France, FRANCE Simple Models of Evolution and Genealogies
09:00-09:30	Timothy Cox, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK The First Jewish Diseases and What It Means to be Rare
09:30-10:00	Gad Rennert, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, ISRAEL Founder Mutations and Genetic Variants Causing Cancer in Various Ethnic Groups in Israel
10:00-10:30	Maarten Larmuseau, KU Leuven, Laboratory of Socio-ecology and Social Evolution, Department of Biology, Leuven, BELGIUM; KU Leuven, Biomedical Forensic Sciences, Department of Imaging & Pathology, Leuven, BELGIUM Familiekunde Vlaanderen vzw, Merksem, BELGIUM A Genetic Genealogical Reconstruction of the History of Human Extra-Pair Paternity
10:30-10:50	Coffee/ Tea
10:30-10:50
10:50-12:50	Session VI Chair: Ed Mitukiewicz
10:50-11:20	Sophie Pénisson, University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), FRANCE A Mathematical Model for the Ancestor Paradox
11:20-11:50	Filip Vukosavovic, Curator, National Maritime Museum, Haifa, ISRAEL The Earliest Judean Family Tree
11:50-12:20	Shalom Salomon Wald, Senior Fellow, Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), Jerusalem, ISRAEL; Former Head of Biotechnology Unit, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, FRANCE History and Molecular Genetics: The Case of the Jews
12:20-12:50	Neville Lamdan, International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center at the National Library of Israel, ISRAEL An Experiment in Jewish Genealogy: A Genealogical Survey of a National Jewry
12:50-14:00	Lunch
12:50-14:00
14:00-16:10	Session VII Chair: Maarten Larmuseau
14:00-14:40	Stephen P. Morse , Independent Scholar, USA The Mathematics of the Jewish Calendar
14:40-15:10	Ed Mitukiewicz, Independent Scholar, USA Location, Location, Location: How Historical Maps Can Help When Web Search Technologies Fall Short
15:10-15:40	Jean-Pierre Stroweis, Independent scholar, ISRAEL Engineering Techniques to Enhance the Accuracy of Genealogical Databases
15:40-16:10	Danny Zeevi, Department of Human Genetics, UCLA, USA Inferring Inheritance and Relatedness in Large Jewish Families
16:10-16:30	Coffee/ Tea
16:10-16:30
16:30-18:00	Session VIII Chair: Kamila Klauzinska
16:30-17:00	Aren Maeir, The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL Genealogy Through Material Culture? Some Thoughts Based on the Archaeological Evidence from Iron Age Philistia
17:00-17:30	Arnon Hershkovitz, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL Genealogy and Learning
17:30-18:00	Daniel Horowitz, Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage and Webmaster for The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA), ISRAEL Health Family Tree: Where Genealogy Meets Science

Chairman

Daniel H. Wagner | WIS, Chair

Neville Lamdan | IIJG, Co-Chair

Organizers

Daniel H. Wagner | WIS, Israel

Taly Loebinger | WIS, Israel

Scientific Committee

Daniel H. Wagner | WIS, Chair

Neville Lamdan | IIJG, Co-Chair

Arnon Hershkovitz | TAU, Israel

Karl Skorecki | Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel

Sallyann Sack | IIJG, US

Sergio DellaPergola | HUJI, Israel

Jean-Pierre Stroweis | IIJG, Israel

Conference Coordinator & Accessibility Issues

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