Address for Correspondence
Dipartimento di Biologia
Università di Ferrara
Via L. Borsari, 46
I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
Phone: +39(0532) 29.17.43 / Fax: +39(0532) 24.97.61
Email: dpi@dns.unife.it
Research interests
Genetic history of modern humans
Co-evolution of linguistic and genetic differences in human populations
Admixture in human populations
Statistical genetics
Curriculum vitae
Higher Education
1987-93 University of Geneva Diploma in Biology (Human genetics)
1995-98 University of Geneva Certificate in Computer Science
1994-99 University of Geneva Ph.D. in Biology (Human genetics) with Prof. A. Langaney
and Dr Laurent Excoffier
Professional Appointments
1993-99 Assistant at the University of Geneva
1999 Assistant Doctor at the University of Geneva
1999- Post-doc researcher at the University of Ferrara
(Prof. Guido Barbujani Lab)
Teaching Experience
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Geneva:
1993-99 Computer Science
1994-99 Biological Data Analysis
1996-99 Seminar on Methodology in Biology
1997-99 History of human populations
Research areas
Former Research
Origins of agriculture and breeding in the Near-East and Africa,
their causes and consequences (both genetic, climatic, environmental
and demographic considerations)
Study on the differentiation of World's Languages
Study of the contribution of human genetics and genetic linguistics
to the history of human populations (PhD thesis no3060, University of Geneva)
Current Research
Role of linguistic boundaries in preventing gene flow between human populations:
(Research program under a 48 months Swiss NSF grant (No 3100-039847.93)
entitled "Gene flows within and through linguistics borders
(Principal investigator: Prof. A. Langaney, Second investigator: Dr
L. Excoffier))
Inferring the location of genetic barriers in geographical regions
(Collaboration with Prof.
Laurent Excoffier University of Bern, Switzerland)
Detection of admixture in human populations
(Collaboration with Dr
Giorgio Bertorelle, University of Ferrara, Italy)
Study of the european prehistory through the analysis of the patterns of DNA diversity in human populations
(Collaboration with Prof
Guido Barbujani, University of Ferrara, Italy)
Identification of interspecific hybrids
(Collaboration with Dr. Leonardo Congiu,
Prof
Francesco Fontana, University of Ferrara, Italy and
Dr. Lorenzo Zane,
University of Padova, Italy)
Publication list
Academic publications
Dupanloup, I. (1993) Effets de l'adoption de l'agriculture et de l'élevage
sur les populations proche-orientales et africaines.
Diplôme, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie,
Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
Dupanloup, I. (1995) Internet, un réseau mondial.
Rapport, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie, Département
d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
Dupanloup, I. (1995) Introduction à la programmation HTML.
Rapport, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie, Département
d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I. (1999) Evaluation et synthèse des contributions de la
linguistique et de la génétique à l'étude de la différenciation
des populations humaines pendant la préhistoire récente.
Thèse de doctorat n°3060, Département d'Anthropologie, Faculté des Sciences,
Université de Genève.
Paper presented in conferences
Dupanloup, I., Sanchez-Mazas, A., Langaney A., Blanc M., Dugoujon J.-M., (1994)
Polymorphisme du système GM dans deux echantillons de populations est-africaines
de langue afro-asiatique.
Congrès de Biologie et de Génétique des populations
(September, Poitiers 1994).
Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (1998) Inferring genetic impact of
cultural and ecological barriers: a new approach.
Congrès Zoologia et Botanica, Museum of Natural History, University of Geneva
(February, Geneva 1998).
Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (1999) Inferring the impact of
linguistic boundaries on population differentiation and the location
of genetic boundaries: a new approach.
Human Diversity in Europe and Beyond: Retrospect and Prospect.
Biennial Meeting of the Human Genome Diversity Project for Europe
(9-13 September, Cambridge 1999).
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (2000) Correlation between genetic
and linguistic differentiation of human populations: the specific action of
linguistic boundaries on gene flow ?
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications: Evolution of Language
(3-6 April, Paris 2000).
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Bertorelle, G. (2000)
Inferring admixture proportions from molecular data:
extension to any number of parental populations.
VIIIth CEPH Annual Conference: Genetic History of Modern Humans
(25-26 May, Paris 2000).
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Bertorelle, G. (2000)
L'analisi delle popolazioni mescolate sulla base di dati molecolari.
Secondo convegno della Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita
(30 September- 4 October, Riva del Garda, TN, Italy 2000).
Dupanloup, I. (2001) Genetic differences and language affinities.
The Genetics of Language (28 May - 1 June, Tilburg, Holland 2991).
Publications in scientific journals/books
Dupanloup, I. (1995-6) Le projet Frontières : flux de gènes à l'intérieur
et à travers les frontières linguistiques. Bulletin du Centre Genevois
d'Archéologie, p. 63-64.
Dupanloup, I. (1995-6) Linguistique et génétique des populations:
une étude à l'échelle mondiale. Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Archéologie,
p. 80-82.
Poloni, E.S., Semino, O., Passarino, G., Santachiara-Benerecetti, A.S., Dupanloup, I.,
Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (1997) Human genetic affinities for
Y-chromosome P49a,f/Taql haplotypes show strong correspondance with linguistics.
American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 61, p. 1015-1035.
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Schneider, S., Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (2000)
Inferring the impact of linguistic barriers on population differentiation:
application to the Afro-Asiatic - Indo-European case.
European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 750-756.
Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Schneider, S., Barbujani, G., Excoffier, L. (2000)
Inferring the impact of linguistic boundaries on population differentiation and
the location of genetic barriers - a new approach. C. Renfrew and K. Boyle, eds:
Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe.
McDonald Institute Monographs, p. 325-331.
Dupanloup, I., Bertorelle, G. (2001)
Inferring admixture proportions from molecular data:
extension to any number of parental populations.
Molecular Biology and Evolution 18(4): 672-675.
Dupanloup, I., Poloni, E.S., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L., Langaney, A. (in press)
Génétique, linguistique et histoire des peuplements humains. Langages.
Pereira, L., Dupanloup, I., Rosser, Z., Jobling, M.A., Barbujani, G. (in press)
Y-chromosome mismatch distributions in Europe. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Congiu, L., Dupanloup, I., Patarnello, T., Fontana, F., Rossi, R., Arlati, G.,
Zane, L. (accepted)
Identification of interspecific hybrids by AFLP: the case of sturgeons.
Molecular Ecology.
Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (in prep)
Detection of genetic boundaries: a new regionalization method based on
the maximization of a genetic distance between groups of populations.
Dupanloup, I., Castri, L., Barbujani, G., Bertorelle, G. (in prep)
A new flexible approach to identify the populations that contributed to an
admixed group, with application to Central Asian populations.
Other publications
Dupanloup de Ceuninck I., Poloni E. Langaney A. (2000-2001)
"La langue paternelle" Science et Avenir Hors-Serie No. 125,
Décembre 2000/ Janvier 2001 ("La langue d'Homo erectus"), pp. 42-47.
Last Updated: 01/18/2001 by Isabelle Dupanloup
