Dan T.A. Eisenberg
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208-1330
U.S.A
Fax: 847-467-1778

EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
AWARDS & HONORS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INVITED LECTURES
SKILLS
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

EDUCATION

Fall 2007- Present

PhD student in Anthropology, Northwestern University with NSF Graduate Student Fellowship

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”

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

In Prep:
"A systematic review and evaluation of David Werner et al's book, "Where There Is No Doctor"." Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Elizabeth Babu, Juyong Lee, Karen Godoy. PLoS Medicine (In prep).

"Cholesterol function: evidence for climatic adaptation in the worldwide allele frequencies of the apoliprotein E (APOE) gene." Dan T.A. Eisenberg, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Christopher W. Kuzawa. PLoS Biology (In prep).

In Review:
"Climate and Child Height among Native Amazonians." R. Godoy, E. Goodman, V. Reyes-García, D. Eisenberg, W. R. Leonard, T. Huanca, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. (In review)

"Rainfall Shocks and Nutritional Status of Children and Young Adults in a Native Amazonian Society of Bolivia." Godoy, R.A., D.T.A. Eisenberg, T. Huanca, W.R. Leonard, T.W. McDade, V. Reyes-García, S. Tanner, M. Vento, and TAPS Bolivian Study Team. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (In review).

In press:
"Assortative mating and offspring well-being: Theory and empirical findings from a native Amazonian Society in Bolivia." R. Godoy, D. Eisenberg, V. Reyes-García, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard, T. W. McDade, S. Tanner, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. Evolution and Human Behavior. (In press).

2008:
"Dopamine receptor genetic polymorphisms and body composition in a subsistence society: An exploration of nutrition among settled and nomadic Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya." Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Benjamin Campbell, Peter B. Gray, Michael D. Sorenson. BMC Evolutionary Biology. (2008), 8(173).

Associated press coverage appeared in: The Economist, Newsweek, 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

"Testosterone and Androgen Receptor GAG Repeat Length Predict Variation in Body Composition among Ariaal Men of Northern Kenya." Benjamin C. Campbell, Peter B. Gray, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Peter Ellison, Michael Sorenson. International Journal of Andrology (OnlineEarly).

"Further validation of a Cigarette Purchase Task for assessing the relative reinforcing efficacy of tobacco in smokers." MacKillop, James, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, James Murphy, J. Koji Lum, Stephen A. Lisman, David S. Wilson (2007), Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. (2008), 16(1), 57-65.

2007:
“Season of Birth Influences on Risk Taking, Impulsivity, Reproductive Behavior and Interactions with Dopamine Receptor Polymorphisms.” Eisenberg, Dan T.A., Benjamin Campbell, James MacKillop, Meera Modi, Joshua Beauchemin, David Dang, J. Koji Lum, Stephen A. Lisman, David S. Wilson, PLoS ONE . (2007), 2(11) e1216.

“Polymorphisms in the Dopamine D2 and D4 Receptor Genes and Reproductive and Sexual Behaviors,”. Eisenberg, Dan T.A., Benjamin Campbell, James MacKillop, Meera Modi, Joshua Beauchemin, David Dang, J. Koji Lum, Stephen A. Lisman, David S. Wilson, Evolutionary Psychology (2007), 5(4): 696-715.

“Obesity, ADHD/ADD, and the Recent Evolution of the Dopaminergic Reward System (pdf).” Campbell, Ben, and Dan Eisenberg, Collegium Antropologicum. (2007), 31(1):315-319.

2006:
“Examining impulsivity as an endophenotype using a behavioral approach: a DRD2TaqIA and DRD4 VNTR association study," Eisenberg, Dan T.A., James MacKillop, Meera Modi, Joshua Beauchemin, David Dang, J. Koji Lum, Stephen A. Lisman, David S. Wilson, Behavioral and Brain Functions. (2006), 3:2.

Chapters/Posters/Abstracts/Unpublished Manuscripts:

"Anthropology in the United States - When Dialogue is the Discipline: A Multi-Level Evolutionary Consideration of Knowledge Production." Dan T.A. Eisenberg. In: A Vision of Transdisciplinarity, Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue. EFPL Press, 2008. Editors: M. C. Frédéric Darbellay, Jérôme Billotte, Francis Waldvogel.

Campbell, B.C., D.T.A. Eisenberg, P.B. Gray, B.W. Stankiewicz, M.D. Sorenson (2007). “The dopamine d4 receptor gene (DRD4) 48bp polymorphism in Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya,” Human Biology Association Conference. (Abstract)

Campbell, Benjamin, Michael Sorenson, Dan Eisenberg (2006). “Variation in dopamine receptor D4 and the origins and migration of modern humans,” World Knowledge Dialogue Conference-September 2006. (Abstract)

Eisenberg, D.T.A. et al. (2006). “Impulsivity and Risk Taking as Dopamine Gene Endophenotypes (PowerPoint Document),” Research Society on Alcoholism Conference. Alcoholism, Clinical & Experimental Research, Supplement to June 2006, 30(6), 7A. (Poster and Abstract)

Kengo Kusana, Dan Eisenberg, Jarrod Dean, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, Mary Garvin, Hong Ma, Marcy Silver, Tina Thorn, Yan Zhu, Douglas Losordo, and Ryuichi Aikawa (2006). “Overexpression of Human Growth Hormone by rAAV Protects Cardiac Myocytes and Improves Cardiac Function After Myocardial Infarction,” Caritas Christi Annual Research Day-March 2006. (Poster and Abstract)

Eisenberg, Dan, and Michael A. Bell (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)

Stickleback being eaten by a nymph

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

Eisenberg, D.T.A. et al. (2005). “Genetic influences on human impulsivity, substance abuse, sexual and affiliative behavior and possible moderating environment factors,” Binghamton University Research and Scholarly Activity Fair-March 2005. Also selected to be presented to high school seniors for Binghamton University admissions. (Poster)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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. In 2008 began pilot studies of water iron levels and sleep patterns.

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 Machu Picchu 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:
Developmental Psychobiology (Wiley)
PLoS ONE

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

AWARDS & HONORS

2007-2011 NSF Graduate Fellowship

Summer 2008 Northwestern - LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant

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

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

Fall 2006 World Knowledge Dialogue, Switzerland, Young Scientist Award

Summer 2006 Research Society on Alcoholism, Junior Investigator Award

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

Spring 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

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 08
Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Anthropology, Northwestern University

Fall ’04
Tutor of Undergraduates, Binghamton U. Center for Academic Excellence

Fall ‘03
Teaching Assistant, biology/anthropology course, "Evolution for Everyone". Discussion section leader, graded papers, helped prepare exams and facilitated research projects.

Summers '02 & ’98
Tutor, Tecschange (Technology for Social Change) a Boston based organization that trains low-income residents to build and use computers

INVITED LECTURES

Fall 2007
Invited speaker on Human Genetics to "Human Origins" discussion sections, undergraduate course at Northwestern U.

Spring 2005
Invited speaker on Human Behavior Genetics to “Conceptual Foundations in Ecology Evolution and Behavior”, Graduate/Undergraduate course at Binghamton U.

SKILLS

· Computers: Proficient cross platform computer user with experience in software and hardware repairs, web site design, statistical software (SPSS, STATA, BiomStat, Resampling), Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, File Maker, Dreamweaver, EndNote and etc. Familiarity with Java and BASIC programming and HTML scripting.

· Molecular Lab Techniques: DNA/RNA/Protein extractions, plug DNA extraction, ligation, transformation, PCR, RT-PCR, radioactive PCR, southern blot, pulsed field, agarose and polyacrylamide electrophoresis, cell culture (including mesenchymal stem cells), epithelial progenitor cell isolation, telomere length and telomerase activity analysis, recombinant viral production, basic primer design and sequencing experience

Languages: Fair reading, writing and speaking in Spanish.

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES

2002-2004 Harpur’s Ferry Student Volunteer Ambulance Service

2001-2003 Running Club – Vice-President

2002 Radio Station Disk Jockey - WHRW 90.5 FM Binghamton