Schedule:
September 27. Introduction (Noah Rosenberg, Steve Weitzman) followed by: Marc Feldman, “The Genetics of the Samaritans and other Middle Eastern Peoples”
Slides for 9/27 available here.
October 4. Elad Ziv(University of California, San Francisco) “Genetics of breast cancer risk and mammographic density in Ashkenazi Jews”
Slides for 10/4 available here.
October 11. Doron Behar (Rambam Medical Center, Israel) “The Archaeogenetics of the Jewish People”
Slides for 10/11 available here.October 18. John Efron (University of California, Berkeley) "Jews and the Science of Race at the Fin-de-Siècle"
No slides were presented.October 25. Roy King (Stanford) and Aaron Brody (Bade Museum of Biblical Archaeology) “Genetics and the Archaeology of Ancient Israel” Slides for 10/25 available here.
November 1. Susan Kahn (Harvard) “Are Genes Jewish? Conceptual Ambiguities in a New Genetic Age”
Slides for 11/1 available here.November 8. Arno Motulsky (University of Washington) “Jewish Genetics in Health and Disease”
Slides for 11/8 available here.November 15. Shelley Reuter (Concordia University) “Tay-Sachs as a ‘Jewish’ Disease”
November 29. Neil Risch (UCSF) “Genetic Diseases in the Ashkenazim and Ashkenazi History”
Slides for 11/29 available here.December 6. Concluding panel (Noah Rosenberg, Steve Weitzman)
Slides for 12/6 available here.