Molecular Primatology
Progress and Promise
March 2nd to 4th, Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center, New York University

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Susan Alberts
Not just mother love: Paternity and paternal kinship in wild baboons
Mike Bruford Process-based conservation genetics in threatened primate populations: Approaches and applications
Anthony Di Fiore Population structure, dispersal, and mating systems in ateline primates
Todd Disotell
Molecular systematics of the primates: What we’ve learned, where we need to go
Pascal Gagneux Primate sperm surface molecules - outrunning the competition and sweet-talking the female
Morris Goodman A short history about the twin fields of primate molecular phylogenetics and primate genomics
Joe Hacia Comparative genomics of humans and African great apes
Cliff Jolly Not just markers: Diverse implications of molecular data from wild primate populations
Peter Kappeler The molecular ecology of lemur societies
Shoji Kawamura Adaptive significance of color vision polymorphism in social groups of wild New World monkeys
Leslie Knapp Mixed signals?  The role of MHC genes in disease resistance, kin recognition and mate attraction
Don Melnick The day before yesterday: Genetic analysis as a guide to preserving evolutionary diversity and restoring population processes
Nelly Ménard Social organization and the distribution of relatedness in wild primate groups and populations
Nick Mundy Adaptive evolutionary genetics of primates: Applications of a candidate gene approach
Tim Newman Functional candidate gene studies and the evolution of behavior in primates: Lessons from the MAOA gene
Jeff Rogers Genetic analyses of social behavior in captive baboons (Papio hamadryas)
Oliver Ryder Primate conservation genomics
Steve Suomi Gene-X-Environment interactions and biobehavioral development in rhesus monkeys and other macaques
Linda Vigilant Y-chromosome variation, dispersal, and reproductive skew in bonobos and chimpanzees
Derek Wildman Placentas and parturition: Adaptive molecular evolution and primate reproduction
David Woodruff Defining conservation units in the hominoids – using DNA to discern species, subspecies, and other evolutionarily significant units