Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
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Public Symposium
"Sequencing the Chimpanzee Genome:
What Have We Learned?"
Ajit Varki
Opening Remarks
Pascal Gagneux
"How Humans are Related to Other Primates"
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
"The Mind of the Chimpanzee: In the Wild and in Captivity"
Mary-Claire King
"99% Genetic Identity of Humans and Chimpanzees: Measurements Over the Past 30 Years"
Robert Waterston
"Problems and Prospects in Sequencing the Whole Chimpanzee Genome"
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
"Sequencing and Analysis of Chimpanzee Chromosome 22"
Evan Eichler
"Structural Variation and Rearrangement between Chimp and Human Genomes"
Andrew G. Clark
"Comparing Coding Sequences between Humans and Chimpanzees"
Svante Paabo
"Genomic Comparisons of Humans and Chimpanzees"
Ajit Varki/Chaitan Baru
"Initiation of a Great Ape Phenome Project"
Caroline Tutin
"Chimpanzees in the Wild: The Crisis in Great Ape Conservation"
Maynard Olson
Concluding Remarks
Supported by: The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation
Organized by: The Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
Ajit Varki, Project Coordinator