People

Lorena Madrigal

Dr. Lorena Madrigal

Professor

Contact

Office: SOC 143
Email: madrigal@usf.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Kansas
  • M.A., Anthropology, University of Cincinnati
  • B.S., Anthropology, University of Utah

Professional Experience

  • Biological seat. AAA executive board. 2014-2017
  • President of the AAPA. 2011-2013.

Teaching

Biological Anthropology, Human Variation, Human Evolution, Human Biology of Caribbean Groups, Seminar in Physical Anthropology, Anthropological Genetics, Quantitative Methods, and Advanced Quantitative Methods.

Research

Biological Anthropology, Bio-Cultural Anthropology, Population Genetics, and Human Biology; Costa Rica.

Specialty Area

Dr. Madrigal is interested in human microevolution, and has used demographic and population genetics approaches towards understanding it. Most of her work has taken place in Costa Rica. In collaboration with her colleagues from the Universidad de Costa Rica, Dr. Madrigal has collected data on living subjects and traced their maternal genealogies, in many cases for several centuries. With this data set, Madrigal and colleagues have presented a strong challenge to the grandmother hypothesis, which seeks to explain the evolution of post-menopausal longevity in humans. Madrigal et al. have also done work with populations of African and East Indian descent in Costa Rica. The broad interest of this project has been to trace the evolution of these communities, whether by gene flow, genetic drift, etc. In addition, Madrigal and collaborators are studying the cardiovascular health of these two communities, within the context of the economic development of their region.

Recent Journal Article

  • Reyes, L., Godfrey, D. Ming, L. J., MacLean, C., Gonzalez, F. J., Madrigal, L. American Journal of Human Biology. LOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23567. The distribution in native populations from Mexico and Central America of the C677T variant in the MTHFR gene. 2021. 
  • Sabrina Guimar茫es Paiva, Carolina Carvalho Gontijo, Raquel Carvalho Gontijo, Lorena Madrigal, Maria de Nazar茅 Klautau-Guimar茫es, Silviene Fabiana de Oliveira. (2020). Migration in Brazilian Afro-descendants鈥� communities: a new approach to illustrate the meaning of contemporary Quilombo. Revista da Associacao Brasileira de Pesquisadores/as Negros/as (ABPN). 12(32):188-208.
  • Carroll Flansburg, MA, MPH, Christina M. Balentine, BS, Ryan W. Grieger, MS, Justin Lund, MA, Michelle Ciambella, BS, Deandre White, BS, Eric Coris, MD, Eduardo Gonzalez, MD, Anne C. Stone, PhD, and Lorena Madrigal, PhD. 2019. Fetal Hemoglobin Modulators May Be Associated With Symptomology of Football Players with Sickle Cell Trait
  • H Huang, KBH Clancy, C Burhance , Y Zhu and L Madrigal. 2015. .
  • Loredana Castr矛 (posthumously), Donata Luiselli, Davide Pettener, Mauricio Melendez-Obando, Ram贸n Villegas-Palma (posthumously), Ramiro Barrantes, Henrieta Raventos, Reynaldo Pereira, Lorena Madrigal. 2014. . 
  • Madrigal L., Loredana Castr矛 (Posthumously) , Mauricio Melendez-Obando, Ramon Villegas-Palma, Ramiro Barrantes, Henrieta Raventos, Reynaldo Pereira, Donata Luiselli, Davide Pettener, Guido Barbujani. 2012. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 148 (3): 327鈥�333. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22052
  • Lorena Madrigal, Jeffrey Brady, Michelle Raxter, Ernesto Ruiz, Flory Otarola and Mwenza Blell. 2011. Obesity, hypertension and migration: A meta analysis of populations of the South Asian diaspora. Human Biology. Volume 83(1): 71-86.
  • Castri, L; Madrigal, L; Melendez-Obando, M, et al. 2011. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology;23(2):225-227.
  • Lorena Madrigal, Jeffrey Brady, Michelle Raxter, Ernesto Ruiz, Flory Otarola and Mwenza Blell. 2011. Obesity, hypertension and migration: A meta analysis of populations of the South Asian diaspora. Human Biology. Volume 83(1): 71-86.

  • Loredana Castri, Mauricio Melendez-Obando, Ramon Villegas-Palma, Ramiro Barrantes, Jetty Raventos, Reynaldo Pereira, Donata Luiselli, Davide Pettener , Lorena Madrigal. 2009. . 67 (3): 147-153.
  • Madrigal, L. and Melendez-Obando, M. 2008. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 136:233-229.
  • Madrigal L and Kelly W. 2007. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 133 (1): 780-781.
  • Loredana Castr矛 , Flory Ot谩rola, Mwenza Blell, Ramiro Barrantes, Donata Luiselli, Davide Pettener, Ernesto Ruiz and Lorena Madrigal. 2007. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109 (2): 330-337
  • Madrigal L, Ware B, Hagen E, Blell M , and Ot谩rola F. June, 2007. . American Anthropologist. 109 (2): 330-337.
  • Madrigal L and Kelly W. 2007.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 132:470-482.
  • Madrigal L and T. Koertvelyessy. 2003a. Epidemic cycles in agricultural populations: A cross-cultural study. Human Biology. 75(3):345-354.download PDF
  • Madrigal L, B. Ware and M. Melendez. 2003. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 122(4):355-360.
  • Madrigal L, J. Relethford, and Michael H. Crawford. 2003. . American Journal of Human Biology. 15:16-22.
  • Madrigal L, B. Ware, R. Miller, G. Saenz颅, M. Chavez and D. Dykes. 2001. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 114:99-108
  • Madrigal L, G. Saenz, M. Chavez, and D. Dykes. 2001. . American Journal of Human Biology. 13:220-226

Graduate Students

Raymond Blair, Fiona Felker, Courtney Johns, Caroline MacClean, and Amanda Malerba.