| Cynthia M Beall, Ph. D. S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology Adjunct Staff, Department of Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Professor of Anatomy, Professor of Global Health (Secondary Appointments), School of Medicine Director, Steering Committee on Evolutionary Biology Co-director, Center for Research on Tibet Office: 217 Mather Memorial Building Mailing Address: Department of Anthropology Case Western Reserve University 238 Mather Memorial Building 11220 Bellflower Road Cleveland, OH 44106-7125 Telephone 1 216 368 2277 Fax 1 216 368 5334 Email cynthia.beall@case.edu
|
 |
Research Interests: I am a physical anthropologist with research interests in the broad area of how people adapt to their environments, both physical and sociocultural, and the causes and consequences of worldwide variation in human biology - the biodiversity of humans. My research focuses on the different patterns of adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia of the indigenous populations of the Andean, Tibetan, and East African Plateaus. My current projects aim at detecting evidence of natural selection in high altitude populations and at understanding the role of nitric oxide and blood flow for oxygen delivery.
EDUCATION: 1970 B.A., Biology, University of Pennsylvania 1972 M.A., Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University 1976 Ph.D., Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University HONORS: 1996 Elected
to membership, National Academy of Sciences CURRENT EDITORIAL BOARDS: Editorial Board, American
Journal of Human Biology, 2002 - Editorial Board, Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005 - CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: 2005 - Member, Executive Board, ICSU - International Council for Science 2003 - Chair, National Academy of Sciences Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO), two year term, member since 2001 2002- Member, Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate of the National
Science Foundation, three
year term. 2008 Beall, C.M. Why Are We Vulnerable to Acute Mountain Sickness? Pp.259-276 in Trevathan, W., McKenna, J.M. and E.O. Smith (eds.), Evolutionare Medicine and Health. New Perspectives, Oxford University Press, New York. 2007 Erzurum, S.C., Ghosh, S., Janocha, A.J., Xu, W., Bauer, S., Bryan, N.S., Tejero, J., Hemann, C., Hille, R., Stuehr, D.J., Feelisch, M., Beall, C.M. Higher blood flow and circulating NO products offset high-altitude hypoxia among Tibetans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 17593. 2007 Beall, C.M. Detecting natural selection in high-altitude human populations. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 158: 161-171. 2007 Beall, C.M. Two routes to functional adaptation: Tibetan and Andean high-altitude natives. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 2007 May 15; 104 Suppl 1:8655-60. 2006 Brown, D.E., Beall, C.M., Strohl, K.P., and Mills, P.S. Exhaled Nitric Oxide Decreases upon Acute Exposure to High-Altitude Hypoxia. American Journal of Human Biology 18 (2): 196-202 2006 Beall, C. M.. Andean, Tibet, and Ethiopian Patterns of Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia. Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Advance Access, January 6, 2006, pp. 1-7. available at http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/46/1/18?ijkey=QtPgxRl5vbVI1Pf&keytype=ref
2005 Geoff Childs, M.C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, C.M. Beall. Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and south Asia. Population and Development Review (31):2: 337-351. abstract available at http://www.popcouncil.org/publications/pdr/vol31_2.html 2005 Hoit BD, Dalton ND, Erzurum SC, Laskowski D, Strohl KP, Beall CM. Jul 14; Nitric Oxide and Cardio-Pulmonary Hemodynamics in Tibetan Highlanders. J. Appl Physiol. 99:1796-1801. First published July 14, 2005; doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00205.2005. available at http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/5/1796 2004 Beall, C. M., Song, K., Elston, R. C., Goldstein, M. C. Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen saturation genotypes residing at 4000m. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 101(39):14300-4 available at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15353580
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT PROF. BEALL'S: Community of Science Expertise
|
|