Areas of Concentration:
Biological Anthropology, Archaeology
Additional
Training
2010 Genetics of Complex Disease, July 5-12, Cold
Springs Harbor Laboratory, Lloyd Harbor, NY
2005 Workshop on Anthropological and Primate
Genetics, Dec. 8-10, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San
Antonio, TX
Grants
and Awards
Texas Biomedical Forum Grant 2011-2012
Professional
Development Grant - American Association of Physical Anthropology 2011
NIH LRP Health Disparities Project 2010-2011
Cowles Postdoctoral Fellowship, Southwest
Foundation for Biomedical Research, 2009
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, University of
Kansas, Spring 2008
Carroll D. Clark Research Award, University of
Kansas, Fall 2007
Carroll D. Clark Research Award, University of
Kansas,Spring 2005
Outstanding Research Poster Presentation Award
- University of Kansas Graduate and Research Association - Spring 2005
Carroll D. Clark Research Award, University of
Kansas, Fall 2004
Allan Hanson Excellence in Anthropological
Teaching Award, University of Kansas 2003/2004
Graduate Research Travel Award, University of
Kansas, Spring 2003
Carroll D. Clark Research Award, University of
Kansas, Fall 2003
UM President's Award for Outstanding Senior in
Anthropology 1996
Teaching Experience
At the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Instructor - in "Fundamentals of
Physical Anthropology" • Summer 2007 • Responsible for
preparing syllabus, lectures, exams, grading, and course text list
Teaching Assistant - to Associate
Professor Sandra Gray in "Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology" •
Spring 2007 • Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, led
four discussion sections per week (~100 students total), graded papers
and exams.
Teaching Assistant - to Professor
Jim Mielke in "Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology" • Fall 2006
• Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, led four
discussion sections per week (~100 students total), graded papers and
exams.
Teaching Assistant - to Professor
Jim Mielke in "Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology" • 2003/2004
• Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, led four
discussion sections per week (~100 students total), graded papers and
exams
Teaching Assistant - to Professor
David Frayer in "Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology" • Spring
2002 - Spring 2004 • Collaborated on curriculum and exam
development, led four discussion sections per week, graded papers and
exams
Teaching Assistant - to Associate
Professor Sandra Gray in "General Anthropology" • Fall 2001 •
Collaborated on curriculum and exam development, led four discussion
sections per week, graded papers and exams
Research Assistant - to Professor
Michael H. Crawford, worked on project titled "The Co-Evolution
of Genes and Language in Chibchan populations from Middle America"
• Fall 2007 - 2008
Research Assistant - to Professor
Michael H. Crawford, worked on project titled "Investigations into
the origins of Aleuts using molecular genetic techniques" •
Fall 2004-Summer 2006• Laboratory analysis of CD4 Str and ALU
deletion linkage disequilibrium and human endogeneous retrovirus (HERV)
variation, statistical analysis of resulting data
Summer Intern - to Dr. Kim
Kimminau • Summer 2002 • Worked on data collection and
literature revieww of Native American health in Kansas and surrounding
states and contributed to a study examining mortality in Mennonite
communites in Kansas and Nebraksa.
Acting Cultural Records Manager/
Information Systems Specialist - under Dr. Mark Baumler
(Montana State Historic Preservation Officer) • Summer 2001 •
Conducted file searches and made recommendations regarding need for
cultural resource inventory, update and maintain statewide cultural
resources databases and Novell office networ
Cultural Records Manager/ Information
Systems Specialist - under Dr. Mark Baumler (Montana State
Historic Preservation Officer) • 1996-2000 • Conducted file
searches and made recommendations regarding need for cultural resource
inventory. Design, develop, and maintain integrated statewide cultural
resources relational databases (Montana Statewide Antiquities database,
BLM InfoSHARE) and Novell office network
Summmer Intern - to Dr. Mark
Baumler (Acting Montana State Historic Preservation Officer) •
Summer 1995 • Conducted file searches and made recommendations
regarding need for cultural resource inventory, particpated in ongoing
archaeological field projects, enterered cultural resource inventory
data.
At Archaeological Records Office, University
of Montana, Missoula, MT
Research Assistant - to Dr. Tom
Foor • 1994-1995 • Assign Smithsonian numbers to cultural
resource properties found in Montana, update and maintain paper and
electronic records of these sites, anwer phone requests regarding
location of these properties for state and fedeal agency cultural
resource stafff.
Publications
and Presentations
Pulications:
Melton PE. Mennonite
Migrations: Demographic and Genetic Consequences. Causes
and Consequences of Human Migration.
(eds. MH Crawford and B. Campbell), Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge UK.IN PRESS.
Melton
PE. Serum
bilirubin and the genetic epidemiology of
complex disease. Bilirubin:
Chemistry, Regulation and Disorders (ed. Nadya
Gotsiridze-Columbus) Nova
Publishers, Hauppauge, NY IN PRESS.
Melton
PE, Pankratz
N. Joint analyses of disease and
correlated quantitative phenotypes Genetic
Epidemiology IN PRESS.
Melton, PE,
Kent Jr. JW, Dyer TD, Almasy LA, Blangero J. Genetic signal
maximization using environmental regression. BMC ProceedingsAbstract
| PDF
Kumar
S,C Bellis, M Zlojutro, PE Melton, J
Blangero,JE
Curran. Large Scale Mitochondrial sequencing in Mexican Americans
suggests a
reappraisal of Native American origins. BMC
Evolutionary Biology. 11:293 Abstract
| PDF
Melton PE,
K Haack, HHH Göring, S Laston, JG Umans, ET Lee, R Fabsitz, RB
Devereux, LG Best, J MacCluer, LA Almasy, Cole SA (2011). Genetic
Influences on Serum Bilirubin in American Indians: The Strong Heart
Family Study. American
Journal of Human Biology.
23: 118-125. Abstract
| PDF
Melton PE, Rutherford S,
Voruganti VS, Göring HHH, Laston S, Haack K, Comuzzie AG, Curran
JE, Johnson M, Moses E, Dyer TD, Blangero J, Lee ET, Best LG, Fabsitz
RR, Devereux RB, Okin PM, Bella J, Broeckel U, Howard BV, MacCluer JW,
Cole SA , Almasy LA (2010) “Bivariate genetic association of KIAA1797
with heart rate in American Indians: The Strong Heart Family
Study” Human Mol. Genet.Abstract
| PDF
Rubicz R, PE
Melton,
G Sun, V Spitsyn, R Deka, and MH Crawford (2010) Genetic Structure of
Native Circumpolar Populations Based on Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y
Chromosome DNA MarkersAmerican
Journal of Physical Anthropology.
143:62-74.Abstract
|
Melton PE, MJ Mosher, R. Rubicz,
M. Zlojutro, and MH Crawford (2010) “Mitochondrial DNA diversity
in Mennonites from the Midwestern United States.” Human
Biology. June 82(3) 267-289 Abstract
| PDF
Melton PE, I. Briceño, A.
Gómez, J. Bernal, EJ Devor and MH Crawford (2007) "The
biological relationship between Central and South American Chibchan
speaking populations: evidence from mtDNA" American Journal of
Physical Anthropology May;133(1):753-70 Abstract
| PDF
Taraskia L & P. Melton
(2006) "Comparative analysis of Yakut mitochondrial DNA and other Asian
populations" Genetika 42 (12) 1439 - 1446 In Russian Abstract
Rubicz R, PE Melton, and MH
Crawford (2006) "Molecular markers in anthropological genetic studies".
In: Anthropological Genetics: Theory Methods and Applications (ed.
MH Crawford), Cambridge University Press.Cambridge,
UK 141-186Available at Amazon.com
Melton PE, M. Zlojutro, K
Kimminau, MH Crawford (2006) "Biological Aging and Cox hazard analysis
of mortality trends in a Mennonite community from south-central Kansas"
American Journal of Human Biology
18(3):387-401.Abstract
| PDF
Melton, PE (2005) Molecular
Perspectives on the Origins of Chibchan Populations from the Sierra
Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Masters Thesis University of Kansas, unpublished
Presentations:
Melton PE,
K. Haack, TD. Dyer, MC. Mahaney, JW. MacCluer, DR. Rainwater, J.
Blangero, L. Almasy, SA. Cole. Bayesian analysis of hepatic lipase (LIPC)
genetic variation suggests different variants influence HDL-C level and
HDL particle size. American Society of Human Genetics, Washington, D.C.
Melton,
PE,
Kent Jr. JW, Dyer TD, Almasy LA, Blangero J. Genetic signal
maximization using environmental regression. Genetic Analysis Workshop
17, Boston, MA.
Blangero
J, Drigalenko E., Kent J, Zlojutro M, Melton
PE,
Diego VP, Dyer TD, Almasy LA, Göring HH. Detection of Rare
Functional Variants in Extended Pedigrees. Genetic Analysis Workshop
17, Boston, MA.
MeltonPE,
Curran
JE, Carless M, Johnson MP, TD. Dyer, JW. MacCluer, Moses EK,
Göring HH, J. Blangero, L. Almasy. Genomic, transcriptomic, and
pathway-based analysis of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness. International
Genetic Epidemiology Society Boston, MA.
PE Melton, N. Baldi-Salas, R. Barrantes, MH Crawford (2010)
“Microevolutionary Analysis of Y-Chromosome Variation in Five
Native American Populations from Lower Central America” presented
at 79th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
MH Crawford, PE Melton, MJ
Mosher, R. Rubicz, M. Zlojutro. (2010) Genetic Structure of Mennonite
General Conference, Halderman and Old Colony Populations: Molecular
Perspective” presented at 79th annual meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Mosher, MJ, D. Demarchi, R. Rubicz, M. Zlojutro, PE
Melton, MH Crawford. (2010). “Are sex-specific effects
of dietary phytosterol intake on adiponectin levels an underlying
factor explaining variation in TG/HDL ratio associated with APOE
polymorphisms: The Kansas Nutrition Study.” presented at 79th
annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
PE Melton, H.H.H. Göring,
T.D. Dyer, S.A. Cole, D.L. Rainwater, A.G. Comuzzie, M.C. Mahaney, J.W.
MacCluer, J. Blangero, L. Almasy (2010) “Genetic Effects on
Longitudinal Changes in Risk Factors for Chronic Disease: the San
Antonio Family Heart Study” presented at the 35th annual meeting
of the Human Biology Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
PE Melton (2010) “Mennonite
Migrations: Demographic and Genetic Consequences” Invited Oral
Presentation given at Why do we Migrate: Interdisciplinary Exploration
of Human Migration. Lawrence, KS
Melton PE, K. Haack, TD. Dyer, MC.
Mahaney, JW. MacCluer, DR. Rainwater, J. Blangero, L. Almasy, SA. Cole
(2009) “Deep sequencing of LIPC reveals multiple
variants influencing HDL size distribution.” poster presented at
the 13th annual conference of the International Genetic Epidemiology
Society, Honolulu, HI.
Melton PE, Rutherford S,
Voruganti VS, Göring HHH, Laston S, Haack K, Comuzzie AG, Curran
JE, Johnson M, Moses E, Dyer TD, Blangero J, Lee ET, Best LG, Fabsitz
RR, Devereux RB, Okin PM, Bella J, Broeckel U, Howard BV, MacCluer JW,
Cole SA , Almasy LA (2009) “Genetic association analysis of heart
rate on chromosome 9p21 in American Indians: The Strong Heart Family
Study” poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the
American Society of Human Genetics, Honolulu, HI
R Rubicz, PE Melton, V Spitsyn,
G Sun, R Deka, and MH Crawford (2009) “Genetic structure
of Beringian populations and implications for the peopling of the
New World, based on analysis of autosomal STR data” poster
presented at 34th annual meeting of Human Biology Association, Chicago,
IL
Baldi N, PE Melton, R. Barrantes,
MH Crawford (2008) “Diversidad de DNA mitocondrial en poblaciones
indígenas Vóticas en el Sur de
Centroamérica” Oral presentation to be give at II
Congresso Latinoamericano de Anthropologia. San Jose, Costa Rica.
Baldi NF, Melton PE (2008) "Historia y
Dinámica de las Poblaciones Chibchas: Perspectivas desde la
Antropología Genética" Oral Presentation given at 50th
Anniversary of University of Kansas University of Costa Rica, San Jose,
Costa Rica
Melton PE.
(2007) “The Genetic Structure of Central American Indigenous
Populations” Oral presentation given at Biological Anthropology
Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Melton, Phillip E.
(2006) "Genetic Structure of Chibchan-speaking Populations of South
America: Molecular Evidence." Oral Presentation given at Frontiers in
Anthropological Genetics Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Melton PE,
SS. Paphia , I. Briceno, J. Bernal, EJ. Devor, M. Millis and MH
Crawford (2004) “mtDNA variation in Chibchan speaking groups from
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northeast Colombia” Poster
presentation given at the 29th annual meeting of the Human Biology
Association, Tampa FL
Melton, PE
(2004) “Mitochondrial DNA variation in Chibchan speaking
populations from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northeast
Colombia” Oral presentation given to Sigma Xi Student Research
Conference, University of Kansas
Melton, PE.
(2002) “Comparison of Minority Health in Kansas and Surrounding
States” and “Mortality in Mennonites from Kansas and
Nebraska” Oral presentation given to Staff and Directors of the
Kansas Health Institute
Melton, PE.
(1999) “InfoSHARE: BLM/MHS Cultural Resource Database” Oral
presentation given at the 1st annual Recreation & Tourism in a
Digital Age: Inter Agency Electronic Seminar, Montana Tourism and
Recreation Initiative, Helena
Melton, PE.
(1998) “From Mammoths to Mining: An Archaeological History of
Southwestern, Montana” Oral presentation given to Bozeman
Optimist Club, Bozeman Montana
Web Developer – (Summer 2006) -
Archaeological Resource and Cultural Center updated African collection
page – responsible for updating and debugging student webpages
designed for the class in African Art.
InfoSHARE Lite- (2003) Inter agency Cultural
Resource Database – Oracle 9i relational database application
that allows for cultural resource professionals in Montana to view an
abbreviated portion of the Montana Antiquities Database from their
office computers
InfoSHARE: BLM/MHS Cultural Resource Database
(1999 original, last updated 2004) - Relational database using Oracle 9
and Oracle Developer Software, Client Server and Intranet Application
which allows Montana Bureau of Land Management Field Offices to search
the Preservation Office’s cultural resource database. Project
that this database was developed for won 2004 national award from
Bureau of Land Management for cultural resources information sharing
Montana
Antiquities Database – (1997 original, last updated 2004)
Relational database using Oracle 9 and Oracle Developer Software, which
combines site information, cultural resource inventory information,
eligibility and effect information, and project information into an
easily navigated data search and entry program.
Service
Laboratory Safety Officer
–Fall 2006 – 2008 Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
University of Kansas Faculty Search Committee: Molecular
Anthropologist, Fall 2004, Department of Anthropology,
University of Kansas- Webeditor – Spring 2003-Fall
2004, Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas and Anthropology
Graduate Student Association, University of Kansas Graduate Affairs Representative -2001,
Anthropology Graduate Student Association Speaker Committee – 2001,
Anthropology Graduate Student Association Board of Directors –1999-2000
Montana Archaeological Association Secretary - 1999, Montana
Archaeological Society President – 1996, University
of Montana Anthropology Club Student Faculty Evaluation Committee 1995-1996,
Department of Anthropology, University of Montana
