Publications

Computational Genetics

• Inference of historical migration rates via haplotype sharing
  P. F. Palamara and I. Pe'er
  Bioinformatics. July 2013.
  
  
• On the variance of identity-by-descent sharing in the Wright-Fisher model
  S. Carmi, P. F. Palamara, V. Vacic, T. Lencz, A. Darvasi, I. Pe'er
  Genetics. March 2013.
  
  
• Length distributions of identity by descent reveal fine-scale demographic history
  P. F. Palamara, T. Lencz, A. Darvasi, I. Pe'er
  C. W. Cotterman Award (one of two articles published in the AJHG in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific contributions to the field of human genetics by pre/post-doctoral trainees).
  The American Journal of Human Genetics. November 2012.
  
  
• North African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters
  [ C. Campbell, P. F. Palamara, M. Dubrovsky ]¹, L. Botigue, M. Fellous, G. Atzmon, C. Oddoux, A. Pearlman, L. Hao, B. Henn, E. Burns, C. Bustamante, D. Comas, E. Friedman, I. Pe'er, H. Ostrer
  ¹ Joint first authorship
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. August 2012.
  
  
• The Impact of Converso Jews on the Genomes of Modern Latin Americans
  [ C. Velez, P.F. Palamara, J. Guevara-Aguirre ]¹, L. Hao, T. Karafet, M. Guevara-Aguirre, A. Pearlman, C. Oddoux, M. Hammer, E. Burns, I. Pe'er, G. Atzmon, H. Ostrer
  ¹ Joint first authorship
  Human Genetics. February 2012.
  
  
• The Architecture of long-range haplotypes shared across populations
  [ A. Gusev, P. F. Palamara ]¹, G. Aponte, Z. Zhuang, A. Darvasi, P. Gregersen, I. Pe'er
  ¹ Joint first authorship
  Molecular Biology and Evolution. October 2011.
  
  
• A Minimal Descriptor of an Ancestral Recombination Graph
  L. Parida, P. F. Palamara, A. Javed
  BMC Bioinformatics. February 2011.
  
  
• Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry
  [ G. Atzmon, L. Hao, I. Pe'er ]¹, C. Velez, A. Pearlman, P. F. Palamara, B. Morrow, E. Friedman, C. Oddoux, E. Burns, H. Ostrer
  ¹ Joint first authorship
  The American Journal of Human Genetics. June 2010.
  
   

Robotics

• Petri Net Plans: A Framework for Cooperation and Coordination in Multi-Robot Systems.
  V.A. Ziparo, L. Iocchi, P. Lima, D. Nardi, P. F. Palamara
  JAAMAS - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 1-40, 2010.
  
  
• Policy Gradient Learning for Quadruped Soccer Robots.
  A. Cherubini, F. Giannone, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi and P. F. Palamara
  RAS - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 58 Issue 7, July, 2010.
  
  
• Teamwork Design Based on Petri Net Plans.
  P. F. Palamara, V. A. Ziparo, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, P. U. Lima
  RoboCup 2008: 200-211, Suzhou, China
  
  
• A robotic soccer passing task using petri net plans.
  P. F. Palamara, V. Ziparo, L. locchi, D. Nardi, P. Lima, H. Costelha
  Best Robotic Demo Award
  AAMAS (Demos) 2008: 1711-1712, Estoril, Portugal
  
  
• Petri net plans: a formal model for representation and execution of multi-robot plans.
  V. Ziparo, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, P. F. Palamara, H. Costelha
  AAMAS (1) 2008: 79-86, Estoril, Portugal
  
  
• An extended policy gradient algorithm for robot task learning.
  A. Cherubini, F. Giannone, L. Iocchi, P. F. Palamara
  IROS 2007: 4121-4126, San Diego (CA), USA

Presentations And Posters

• Inference of historical migration rates via haplotype sharing
  21st Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Talk. July 2013, Berlin, Germany.
  
  
• Haplotype sharing reveals fine-scale demographic history
  European Society of Human Genetics, Talk. June 2013, Paris, France. Young investigator award (Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award for outstanding talk in complex genetics and statistical genetics).
  
  
• Haplotype sharing distributions for fine-scale demographic inference
  Evolutionary Genomics Seminar, Stanford, Talk. April 2013.
  Harvard Schoold of Public Health, Talk. March 2013.
  Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Talk. July 2012.
  
  
• Length distributions of identity by descent reveal fine-scale demographic history
  American Society of Human Genetics, Poster. Nov 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  13th international Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis (HGV), Poster. Sept 2012, Shanghai, China. Best Poster award.
  International Congress of Human Genetics, Poster. Oct 2011, Montreal, Canada.
  
  
• Inference of Recent Demographic Events Based On Haplotype Sharing
  American Society of Human Genetics, Poster. Nov 2010, Washington, DC, USA.
  
  
• Inference of Long-Range Haplotypes in Large Cohorts of Unrelated Individuals
  American Society of Human Genetics, Poster. Oct 2009, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  
  
• The Architecture of Long Range Haplotypes Shared Across Populations
  Int. Meeting on Genetics of Complex Diseases and Isolated Populations, Poster. June 2009, Trieste, Italy.
  
  
• A robotic soccer passing task using petri net plans
  AAMAS 2008, Demonstration. Estoril, Portugal. Best Robotic Demo award.