Laboratory for Human Biology Research
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Mission Statement
Biological anthropologists endeavor to understand the evolutionary origins and consequences of human biological variation.  Human biologists, in particular, are interested in investigating the effects of culture and ecology on human adaptation, development, and health.  The Laboratory for Human Biology Research is committed to collaborative, population-based research into the biological, social, and cultural factors that shape human biology and health in a range of international settings, including the U.S..  A primary goal of the laboratory is the development of minimally invasive, "field-friendly" methods for assessing biomarkers of health and physiological development that can be used to facilitate community-based research on human biology.  The laboratory is also committed to providing graduate and undergraduate students with opportunities to conduct independent human biology research.

Announcements

  • HBA/AAPA Meetings coming to Chicago
    • April 1st to April 4th , 2009
  • Northwestern presenters, HBA and AAPA

    Wednesday

    • Julienne Rutherford, Thom McDade, Chris Kuzawa: Current waist circumference and change over 11 years independently predict elevated CRP in Filipino women (poster #20 8:30-10 am)

    • Melanie Vento, Bill Leonard: Nutritional change and cardiovascular health among the Tsimane (poster #54, 8:30-10 am)

    • Colleen Nyberg, Thom McDade, Bill Leonard: Market integration, stress, and child health among the Tsimane (poster #55, 10-11:30 am)

    • Jeff Huang, Thom McDade: Measurement of inflammatory cytokines in dried blood spot samples by multiplex immunoassay (poster #61, 10-11:30 am)

    Thursday

    • Bill Leonard(co-author): Integrative measurement protocol for morphological and behavioral research in human and nonhuman primates (Anton, et al.) (Thursday morning, Session 8, Poster #150)

    • Julienne Rutherford: The intrauterine environment as a life history precursor: perspectives from the callitrichine primates (Thursday @ 8:15 am, Session 9: Human life history in primate perspective)

    • Katie Scharrock: Energy pooling and implications for the unique traits of the human life history strategy (Thursday @ 8:45 am: Session 9: Human life history in primate perspective)

    • Dan Eisenberg, Chris Kuzawa: Evidence for cholesterol function and local climatic adaptation based on worldwide allele frequency variations of the APOE gene (Thursday @ 10:45)

    • EA Quinn and Chris Kuzawa: Fatty acid composition of human milk from the Philippines: sources of variation across the life span (Thursday @ 11 am)

    • Brian Shea and Erin Waxenbaum: Microevolution of size, shape, and timing changes in human pygmies (Thursday @ 11:15 am, Session 9: Human life history in primate perspective)

    • Kathryn Hicks and Bill Leonard: Political economy as a framework for linking biocultural and evolutionary approaches in human biology research (Thursday @ 4:00 pm, Session 14: Human natures and human cultures: integrating evolutionary perspectives and biocultural approaches)

    Friday

    • Bill Leonard (co-author): Short stature among contemporary populations of highland Indonesia (Indriati et al.) (Friday morning, Session 20, Poster #98)

    • EA Quinn and Chris Kuzawa: Does a woman’s birth weight predict milk protein composition in adulthood? (Friday @ 1:30 pm, Session 29: Ecology and evolutionary biology of primate lactation)

    • Bill Leonard and Marcia Robertson: Implications of alternative carrying strategies for infant thermoregulation (Friday @ 2:30 pm, Session 31: Infant carrying in human evolution)

    Saturday

    • Erin Waxenbaum: Developmental and ecogeographic limb variation among the subadults of three Native American populations (Saturday @ 10:45 am, Session 49: Skeletal Biology)

    Medical school (Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology)

    • E.B. Klopp: Mandrillus facial features may signal size and fitness information to conspecifics: an allometric study

    • E.R. Leslie and Brian Shea: Ontogenetic scaling of facial orientation and basicranial flexion in the African apes

    • D. Savakova: Influence of orbit size on aspects of the tarsier postorbital septum