Dan T.A. Eisenberg
 Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208-1330
U.S.A
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EDUCATION
Fall 2009

  • PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Northwestern University
  • Advisors: Chris Kuzawa & M. Geoffrey Hayes. Additional committee members: William Leonard & Thomas McDade
  • Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University


    • May 2005   
  • B.S., Binghamton University, Highest Honors in Anthropology, Biology Minor and Evolutionary Studies Certificate.
  • Honors Thesis with Highest Honors entitled, Genetic and environmental influences on human impulsivity, life history strategies and group membership

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    PUBLICATIONS

    Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

     

    In press:
    22. Zebrowitz LA, Wang R, Bronstad PM, Eisenberg D, Undurraga E, Reyes-Garcia V, Godoy R. in press. First Impressions from Faces Among U.S. and Culturally Isolated Tsimane' People in the Bolivian Rainforest. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

    2011:
    21. Eisenberg DTA. 2011. An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: The thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects. American Journal of Human Biology 23(2):149-167. [Supplementary File 1; Supplementary File 2]


    Evaluating force of selection against human cancers

    20. Eisenberg DTA, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, Salpea KD, Humphries SE, EARS II group. 2011. Substantial variation in qPCR measured mean blood telomere lengths in young men from eleven European countries. American Journal of Human Biology 23(2):228-231. [Supplementary Materials]


    19. Eisenberg DTA, Hayes MG. 2011. Testing the null hypothesis: comments on “Culture-gene coevolution of individualism-collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278(1704):329-332. [Supplementary Materials]


    Principal component 1 (representing population structure) has a strong association
    with 5-HTTLPR allele frequency in Europe ( r(14) = -0.81).

    2010:
    18. Eisenberg DTA, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG. 2010. Worldwide allele frequencies of the human apoliprotein E (APOE) gene: climate, local adaptations and evolutionary history. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 143(1):100-111.
    Distribution of human APOE allele frequencies around the world
    Association of APOE allele frequencies with latitude

    17. Eisenberg DTA, Apicella CL, Campbell BC, Dreber A, Garcia JR, Lum JK. 2010. Assortative human pair-bonding for partner ancestry and allelic variation of the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Special Issue on Cultural Neuroscience). 5(2-3):194-202.

    16. Campbell BC, Dreber A, Apicella CL, Eisenberg DTA, Gray PB, Little AC, Garcia JR, Zamore RS, Lum JK. 2010. Testosterone exposure, dopaminergic reward, and sensation-seeking in young men. Physiology & Behavior. 99(4) 451-456.

    15. Morehart CT, Eisenberg DTA. 2010. Prosperity, power, and change: Modeling maize at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29:94-112.

    14. Undurraga EA, Godoy R, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tanner S and others. 2010. Individual wealth rank, community wealth inequality, and self-reported adult poor health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(4):552-548.

    13. Godoy R, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Shinnar E, Leonard WR, Gravlee C, Reyes-García V, Mcdade TW, Huanca T and others. 2010. Short but catching up: Statural growth among native Amazonian Bolivian children. American Journal of Human Biology 22(3):336-347.

    12. Godoy R, Magvanjav O, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, McDade TW, Leonard WR, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Tanner S, Gravlee C. 2010. Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium?: Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia. Economics & Human Biology 8(1):88-99.

    11. Undurraga EA, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Wang R, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Reyes-García V, Nyberg C, Tanner S, Huanca T and others. 2010. Human's Cognitive Ability to Assess Facial Cues from Photographs: A Study of Sexual Selection in the Bolivian Amazon. PLoS ONE 5(6):e11027.

    Associated press coverage appeared in: COSMOS, abc DIGITAL, epa, Globovision, Yahoo! España NOTICIAS, Los Tiempos, La Cronica De Hoy, Cambio, terra NOTICIAS,


    2009:
    10. Dreber A, Apicella CL, Eisenberg DTA, Garcia JR, Zamore RS, Lum JK, Campbell B. 2009. The 7R polymorphism in the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) is associated with financial risk-taking in men. Evolution and Human Behavior 30(2):85-92.

    9. Campbell BC, Gray PB, Eisenberg DTA, Ellison P, Sorenson MD. 2009. Androgen receptor CAG repeats and body composition among Ariaal men. International Journal of Andrology 32(2):140-148.

    2008:
    8. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, Gray PB, Sorenson MD. 2008. Dopamine receptor genetic polymorphisms and body composition in undernourished pastoralists: An exploration of nutrition indices among nomadic and recently settled Ariaal men of northern Kenya. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(173).

    Associated press coverage appeared in: The Economist, Newsweek, Discover, The Times (London), Scientific American (podcast), Slate, "Eight Forty-Eight" on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, ABC News, Focus Online, jungeWelt, wissenschaft, Agence France-Presse, UPI, ScienceAGoGo, Science Daily, Medical News Today, Weiner Zeitung

    7. Godoy R, Eisenberg DTA, Reyes-Garcia V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. 2008. Assortative mating and offspring well-being: theory and empirical findings from a native Amazonian society in Bolivia. Evolution and Human Behavior 29(3):201-210.

    6. Godoy R, Goodman E, Reyes-Garcia V, Eisenberg DTA, Leonard WR, Huanca T, McDade TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Study Team. 2008. Rain, temperature, and child-adolescent height among Native Amazonians in Bolivia. Annals of Human Biology 35(3):276-93.

    5. MacKillop J, Murphy JG, Ray LA, Eisenberg DTA, Lisman SA, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2008. Further validation of a cigarette purchase task for assessing the relative reinforcing efficacy of nicotine in college smokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 16(1):57-65.

    2007:
    4. Eisenberg DTA, MacKillop J, Modi M, Beauchemin J, Dang D, Lisman SA, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Examining Impulsivity as an Endophenotype Using a Behavioral Approach: A DRD2 TaqI A and DRD4 48-bp VNTR Association Study. Behavioral and Brain Functions 3(2).

    3. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, MacKillop J, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Season of Birth and Dopamine Receptor Gene Associations with Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking and Reproductive Behaviors. PLoS ONE 11:e1216.

    2. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, MacKillop J, Modi M, Dang D, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Polymorphisms in the Dopamine D2 and D4 Receptor Genes and Reproductive, Sexual and Life History Behaviors. Evolutionary Psychology 5(4):696-715.

    1. Campbell B, Eisenberg DTA. 2007. Obesity, Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, and the Dopaminergic Reward System. Collegium Antropologicum 31(1):315-319.

     

    Book reviews

    Babu E, Eisenberg DTA. 2010. Book review of "Where There Is No Doctor" by David Werner. JAMA 303(9):885-886.
    [An extended version of this review is available here; Book is available as a PDF for free from the publishers]


    Number of Inhabitants per Doctor

    Chapters

    Eisenberg DTA. 2008. Anthropology in the United States - When Dialogue is the Discipline: A Multi-Level Evolutionary Consideration of Knowledge Production. In: Frédéric Darbellay MC, Jérôme Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, editor. A Vision of Transdisciplinarity, Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue: EPFL Press.


    Posters/Abstracts/Unpublished manuscripts/Working papers/Preprints:

    Zeng W, Undurraga EA, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Parida S, Zycherman A, Magvanjav O, Reyes-Garcîa V, Tanner S, Bolivian TAPS study team and others. 2011. Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure in a native Amazonian society of Bolivia. Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study Working Paper: http://tsimaneorg/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-70.pdf #70.

    Eisenberg DTA. 2011. The thrifty telomere hypothesis and potentially adaptive paternal effects. American Journal of Human Biology 23(2):257.

    Kuzawa C, Eisenberg D, Hayes M. 2011. Transgenerational predictors of birth weight in the Philippines: correlation with mother's and father's birth weight and test of maternal constraint. American Journal of Human Biology 23(2):263.

    Babu, E. & Eisenberg, D. T. A. 2010. What to do, “Where There Is No Doctor”?: A systematic evaluation of the book, “Where There Is No Doctor”. Unpublished Manuscript.
    [A summary of this manuscript was published as a short book review in JAMA; Book is available as a PDF for free from the publishers]

    Eisenberg DTA, Salpea KD, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG, Humphries SE, on behalf of the European Atherosclerosis Research Study (EARS) II group. 2010. Leukocyte telomere lengths across eleven European countries: description of population variation and possible explanatory factors. Modern Techniques in Drug Discovery (presented by Northwestern University's Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease Training Grant).

    Gray P, Eisenberg D, Campbell B. 2009. Androgen Receptor and Vasopressin Receptor (AVPR1a) Genetic Polymorphisms are not associated with Marital Status or Fertility among Ariaal Men of Northern Kenya. Available from Nature Precedings http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3208.1.

    Eisenberg D, Hayes M, Kuzawa C. 2009. Evidence for cholesterol function and local climatic adaptation based on worldwide allele frequency variations of the apoliprotein E (APOE) gene. American Journal of Human Biology 21(2):253.

    Gray PB, Eisenberg DT, Campbell BC. 2009. No association between androgen and vasopressin 1A (AVPR1A) receptor polymorphisms and marital status or fertility among Ariaal pastoralists of Kenya. Society for Cross Cultural Research.

    Campbell B, Apicella C, Dreber A, Gray P, Eisenberg D, Garcia J, Lum J. 2009. Cortisol, but not DHEA, is related to sensation-seeking in young men. American Journal of Human Biology 21(2):248.

    Godoy R, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tanner S, Vadez V and others. 2008. Individual wealth rank, community wealth inequality, and self-reported adult poor health. taps Working Paper Series: www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-46.pdf.

    Godoy R, Goodman E, Reyes-García V, Eisenberg D, Leonard WR, Huanca T, McDade TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. 2007. Climate and Child Height among Native Amazonians. taps Working Paper Series: http://www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-35.pdf.

    Godoy R, Eisenberg D, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tanner S, Vento M, TAPS Bolivian Study Team. 2007. Anthropometric Indicators of Children and Young Adults and Rainfall in a Native Amazonian Society. taps Working Paper Series: http://www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-33.pdf.

    Campbell BC, Eisenberg DTA, Gray PB, Stankiewicz BW, Sorenson MD. 2007. The dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) 48BP polymorphism in Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya. American Journal of Human Biology 19(2):249-250.

    Campbell B, Sorenson M, Eisenberg D. 2006. Variation in dopamine receptor D4 and the origins and migration of modern humans. World Knowledge Dialogue Conference.

    Eisenberg DTA, et al. 2006. Impulsivity and Risk Taking as Dopamine Gene Endophenotypes. Alcoholism, Clinical & Experimental Research 30(6):7A.

    Eisenberg D, Bell MA. 2005. Decreased dragonfly nymph (Aeshna interrupta) predation on stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with reduced pelvic girdles and symmetrical lateral plate phenotypes. unpublished manuscript.
         


    dragonfly nymph (Aeshna interrupta)



     


    A stream-resident male threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from Alaska (Picture from here)

    Popular Media:

    Eisenberg D, Campbell B. 2011. The Evolution of ADHD: Social Context Matters. San Francisco Medicine 84(8):21-22.


     

    RESEARCH/TRAINING EXPERIENCE

    2010
    AnthroTree Workshop Student (NSF Funded)

    3/2007-8/2007

    &

    6/2008-7/2008

    Researcher and NSF Field School Student, Tsimane Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS), Bolivia. Training in cultural anthropology field methods of data collection, data management and analysis.


       

    2006-

     

    Investigator, Population and behavior genetics study of Ariaal pastoralists of Northern Kenya, Boston University.


    "While wedding festivities continue outside her mother’s hut, a newly circumcised Ariaal bride (right) spends much of the celebration in the company of her best friend. The Ariaal, nomadic cattle herders of Kenya, are struggling to keep pace with shrinking communal pastures and other pressures. Text adapted from “Vanishing Cultures” (National Geographic magazine, August 1999)."

     

     
    2005-2006 Cardiovascular Research Tech, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine 
       
    6/2005-10/2005 Clinical DNA Tech, Center For Human Genetics, Boston University Medical Center 
       
    Fall 2004 Senior Research Aide, Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton U. 
       

    Summer 2004

     

    NSF REU Fellow, stickleback fish research at University of Alaska at Anchorage and State University of New York at Stony Brook 
     



    Alaska lake vista with minnow traps and stickleback in a jar


    Me catching dragonfly nymphs at Wallace Lake



    Where I really spent most of my time in Alaska
       
    Summer 2003

    Research Aide, Conchopata Archaeological Research Project in Ayacucho, Peru (NSF funded).  Participated in excavation, pottery analysis, human and animal bone analysis

     
    Me excavating a skull from an already looted tomb at Conchopata


    Close up of the above tomb


    A photo break while sorting through llama bones in Ayacucho, Peru
       
    Fall 2002 Post excavation research on Saxon burial practices
       
    Summer 2002

    Research Aide, Bamburgh Castle Archaeological Research Project in Northumbria, U.K. and nearby Bowl Hole Cemetery.


    Bamburgh Castle


    Skeleton Being Excavated from Nearby Bowl Hole Cemetery
       
    Spring 2002 Collaborated in pilot bone maceration study for human forensic purposes (resulting work published in Journal of Forensic Sciences).
       

     

    PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/ASSOCIATIONS

    Ad-hoc Reviewer:
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B
    PLoS ONE
    Population Studies
    Genes & Immunity
    International Journal of Obesity
    Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Oxford)
    Developmental Psychobiology (Wiley)
    Behavioral and Brain Functions
    Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
    Archives of Oral Biology
    Naturwissenschaften
    Endangered Species Research

     

    Humanitarian efforts:

     

    Northwestern University:
    2008                 Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Staff Awards Committee

    Binghamton University:
    2002-2005       Voting member at Anthropology Faculty Meetings as Undergraduate Anthropology Organization representative. Actively participated in three faculty-hiring processes.

    2002-2005       Judicial Board Member – judged responsibility and sanctioning of students accused of infractions of university rules

    Member of:
    Human Biology Association
    American Association of Anthropological Genetics
    American Society of Human Genetics


    SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

    2007-2011      NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

    2010                Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

    2010, 08         Northwestern - LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant

    2010                Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics Scholarship

    2010                AnthroTree Workshop - NSF sponsored participant

    2009                NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

    2008                Northwestern U., Summer Language Grant to learn Tsimane' in Bolivia

    2007                Conference Travel Grant to 2008 HBA/AAPA Meeting from Buffet Center For International and Comparative Studies of Northwestern University  

    2006                World Knowledge Dialogue, Switzerland, Young Scientist Award

    2006                Research Society on Alcoholism, Junior Investigator Award

    2005                Binghamton U., Faculty Award for Excellence & Service in Anthropology

    2005                Binghamton U., Matthew Goldstein Memorial Scholarship Award in Anthropology

    2004-’05         Binghamton U., Undergraduate Research Award Funding – twice awarded

    2003                Binghamton U.’s Candidate for the Jack Kent Cook Scholarship

     

     

    All references in American Journal of Human Biology Format