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Michelle Lampl
Papers and Lectures

Articles in Refereed Journals:

2004     Noonan, K.J., Farnum C.E., Leiferman E.M. Lampl, M., Markel, M.D., Wilsman, N.J. Growing Pains:  Are they due to Increased Growth During Recumbency as Documented in a Lamb Model? Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. In press .

2004     Exposure to maternal diabetes is associated with altered fetal growth patterns: A hypothesis regarding metabolic allocation to growth under hyperglycemic-hypoxemic conditions. Am J Human Biol 16:237-263.

2003    Lampl M, Jeanty P. Timing is everything: A reconsideration of fetal growth patterns identifies the importance of individual and sex differences. Am J Hum Biol 15: 667-680.

2003    Lampl, M., Kuzawa, C.W., Jeanty, P. Prenatal smoke exposure alters growth in limb proportions and head shape in the midgestation human fetus. American Journal of Human Biology 15 (4):533-546.

2002    Lampl, M., Kuzawa, C.W., Jeanty, P. Infants thinner at birth exhibit smaller kidneys for  their size in late gestation in a sample of fetuses with appropriate growth. American Journal of Human Biology 14:398-406.

2001   Lampl, M., Birch, L., Picciano, M.F., Johnson, M.L. & Frongillo, E.A., Jr. The child factor in measurement dependability. American Journal of Human Biology 13 (4):548-557.

2001   Lampl, M., Johnson, M.L. and Frongillo, E.A., Mixed distribution analysis identifies saltation and stasis growth. Annals of Human Biology 28 (4):403-411.

2001   Johnson, M.L., Lampl, M. Straume, M. The use of regularity as estimated by approximate entropy to distinguish saltatory growth. Annals of Human Biology 28 (5):491-504.

2000   Lampl M, Johnson ML.Distribution methods and analysis of nonlinear longitudinal data. Methods Enzymol. 321 :182-195.

2000   Johnson ML, Lampl M, Straume M. Distinguishing models of growth with approximate entropy. Methods Enzymol. 321:196-207.

2000   Lampl, M., Mann, A. and Monge, J. A Comparison of calcification staging and histological methods for ageing immature modern human specimens. Anthropologie XXXVIII/1: 51-62.

1998   Lampl, M., Ashizawa, K., Kawabata, M and Johnson, M.L. An example of variation and pattern in saltation and stasis growth dynamics. Annals of Human Biology 25:203-219.

1998   Lampl, M. and Johnson, M.L. Wrinkles induced by the use of smoothing     functions to iron-out serial data. Annals of Human Biology 25:187-202.

1997   Lampl, M. and Johnson, M.L. Identifying saltatory growth patterns in infancy: A comparison of results based on measurement protocol. American Journal of Human Biology 9:343-356.

1996   Johnson, M.L., Veldhuis, J.D. and Lampl, M. Is growth saltatory? The usefulness and limitations of frequency distributions in analyzing pulsatile data. Endocrinology 137: 5197-5204.

1996   Lampl, M. and Johnston, F.E. Problems in the aging of skeletal juveniles: Perspectives from maturation assessments of living children. American     Journal of Physical Anthropology, 101:345-356.

1995   Tillier, A-m, Mann, A.E., Monge, J.M. and Lampl, M. L'ontogenese, la croissance de l'email dentaire et l'origine de l'homme moderne: l'exemple des Neandertaliens. Anthropologie et Prehistoire 106:97-104.

1995   Lampl, M., Cameron, N., Veldhuis, J.D. & Johnson, M.L. Human Growth Patterns. Science 268: 445-447.

1995   How children grow. Pediatric Basics 72:10-16.

1995   Johnson, M.L. and Lampl, M. Methods for the analysis of saltatory data in infancy.  Methods in Neuroscience 28: 364-387.

1994   Johnson, M.L. and Lampl, M. Artifacts of fourier series analysis. Methods in Enzymology. 240: 51-68.

1993  Lampl, M. La croissance saltatoire chez le nourrisson. Bull. et Mem. de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, n.s., 5:53-60.

1993   Lampl, M. Evidence of saltatory growth in infancy. American Journal of Human Biology, 5:641-652.

1993   Lampl, M. and Johnson, M.L. A case study of daily growth during adolescence:  A single spurt or changes in the dynamics of saltatory growth? Annals of Human Biology 20:595-605.

1993   Lampl, M., Monge, J. and Mann, A.E. Further observations on a method for  estimating hominoid dental development patterns.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90:113-127.

1992   Lampl, M., Veldhuis, J.D., and Johnson, M.L. Saltation and stasis: A model of human growth. Science 258: 801-803.

1992   Lampl, M. Further observations on diurnal variation in standing height. Annals of Human Biology 19:87-90.

1991   Lampl, M., Mann, A.E., Monge, J. and Tillier, A-m. L'email dentaire:  Une horloge controversee. La Recherche 236 (22):1225-1227.

1991   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Investigation into the relationship between perikymata counts and crown formation times.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 86:175-188.

1990   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Patterns of ontogeny in human evolution: Evidence from dental development. Yearbook of  
Physical Anthropology 33:111-150.

1990   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Dental caution. Nature 348:202. 

1990   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Decomptes de Perikymaties chez les enfants neandertalienes de Krapina. Bull. et Mem. de la
            Soc. d'Anthrop. de Paris 2:219-28.

1988   Wolpoff, M., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Was Taung human or an ape? Nature 335:501.

1987   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Maturational patterns in early hominids. Nature 328: 673-74.

1978   Lampl, M., Johnston, F.E., & Malcolm, L.A. The effects of protein supplementation on the growth and skeletal maturation of New Guinean school children. Annals of Human Biology 5 (3):219-227.

Letters to the Editor:

1999   Lampl, M., Johnson, M. Wrinkles induced by the use of smoothing  procedures applied to serial growth data. Annals of Human Biology 26 (5): 494-96.

1997   Lampl, M., Frongillo, E.F. and Johnson, M.L. Stasis without saltation? Annals of Human Biology 24:65-68.

Edited Volume:

1999  Lampl, M. (editor) Saltation and Stasis in Human Growth and Development: Evidence, methods and theory. London: Smith-Gordon.

Books:

1999  Kricun, M., Monge, J.M., Mann, A.E., Finkel, G., Lampl, M., Radovcic, J., The Krapina Hominids. A Radiographic Atlas of the Skeletal Collection. Zagreb: Croatian natural History Museum.

Books under contract, in progress:

Introductory Biological Anthropology (McGraw-Hill)

Manuscripts submitted (2004):

Lampl M. Sleep patterns predict growth spurts in infancy. Journal of Sleep Research.

Lampl M, Kuzawa CW, and Jeanty, P Growth patterns of the heart and kidney suggest inter-organ collaboration in facultative fetal growth. Am J Human Biology

Lampl, M. Cellular life histories and bow-tie biology. Am J Human Biology

Lampl M, AL Thompson, EA Quinn, In the mouths of babes: Teething is a risk factor for illness. Pediatrics

Lampl M, AL Thompson, Frongillo E. Sex differences in the relationships among weight gain, skinfold thickness and saltatory length growth spurts in infancy. Pediatric Research

Manuscripts in preparation (2004):

Lampl M. Saltatory growth predicts infant illness

Lampl, M. Nibbling and gorging: Babies eat more frequently when they are growing.

Lampl, M. The big daddy effect

Lampl, M. EA Quinn, Infant eating and mucosal immunity

Lampl, M. E.Frongillo, Fueling infant growth

 Thompson AL, Lampl Sex differences in skinfold predictions of weight velocity during infancy

Journal Articles Reprinted:

1992  Lampl, M., Veldhuis, J.D., and Johnson, M.L. Pousse de croissance et stagnation:  un modele de la croissance chez l'homme.  le Journal Internationale de Medecine. No.254:45-48 (reprint of English Science 258: 801-3.).

1991  Lampl, M., Mann, A.E., Monge, J., and Tillier, A-m. El Esmalte dental:  un reloj controvertido.  El Mundo Cientifico 119: 1215-1217. (reprinted from French La Recherche 254:1225-7).

1990   Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J. Patterns of ontogeny in human evolution: Evidence from dental development. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33: 111-150. Reprinted in: Paleoanthropology Annuals. Volume 1. 1990.  Delson, E., Tattersall, I and Van Couvering, J. (eds) Garland, Pp. 69-98. (1991).

Chapters and Requested Contributions:

2004  The French. Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology. Volume 2: Ember, C & Ember, M. (Eds.) Kluwer Pub.

2002  Lampl, M. “Saltation and stasis: How children grow.” In, Cameron, N. Editor, Human Growth, Academic Press.

1999  Lampl, M. and Johnson, M.D., A consideration of methods for the identification of saltation and stasis in human growth data. In: F.E. Johnson, P.B. Eveleth, B. Zemel, Human Growth in Context. Smith - Gordon Nishimiura. International Association for Human Auxology, Advances in the Study of Human Growth and Development: N° 2., London. Pp. 25-39.

1999  Wilsman, N.J., Farnum, C.E., Leiferman, E.M. & Lampl, M. Growth plate biology in the context of growth by saltations and stasis. For, Lampl, M. (ed.) Saltation and stasis in human growth and development: Evidence, methods and theory. Smith-Gordon, Pub. Pp 71-87.

1999  Lampl, M. Saltation and stasis: Introduction to the data, methods and theory. In, Saltation and stasis in human growth and development: Evidence, methods and theory. Smith-Gordon, Pub. Pp. 1-18.

1999  Lampl, M. Saltatory growth: A review of the evidence and a consideration of the implications. In, Saltation and stasis in human growth and development: Evidence, methods and theory. Smith-Gordon, Pub. Pp. 133-141.

1998  Lampl, M. and Johnson M.L.  Normal human growth as saltatory: Adaptation through irregularity. In, Newell, K. and Molenaar, P. (Eds.) Dynamical Systems in Development. Lawrence Erlbaum, Inc., Pubs. Pp. 15-38.

1998  Encyclopedia entries: Lampl, M. Longitudinal analysis (1000 words), pp.60-61. Saltatory growth (500 words) p. 222. In: Ulijaszek, S., Johnston, F.E. and Preece, M. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development. Cambridge University Press.

1993  Lampl, M. Human Growth Patterns.  American Journal of Human Biology,5:601-03.

1993  Lampl, M. The evolution of sex roles. The First Humans. Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C. Goren Burenhult, ed. Weldon-Owen Pubs. Pp. 30-31.

1984   Johnston, F.E. and Lampl, M. Anthropometry in studies of malnutrition and behavior.  In: Brozek, J.A. (ed.) Malnutrition and Behavior: Critical Assessment of Key Issues.  Lausanne:  Nestles Foundation, pp. 51-70.

1983  Lampl, M. and Emde, R.N. Episodic growth in infancy:  A preliminary report of length, head circumference and behavior.  In:  Fischer, K.W. (ed)     Levels and Transitions in Children's Development. New Directions for Child Development, No. 21: 21-36.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

1979  Lampl, M. and Blumberg, B.S. Blood polymorphisms and the origins of New World populations. In, The First Americans: Origins, Affinities and Adaptations. Gustav Fischer New York, Stuttgart. Pp. 107-124.

Abstracts: Reviewed, Published:

2004   Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tampa, April 15, 2004:  “Fetal growth and development: How cells build a body” Invited paper for Symposium, “Fetal origins of developmental plasticity.” American Journal of Human Biology 16(2): 234.

2004   AAPA 73rd Annual Meeting, Tampa, April 16 2004: “Alterations in growth rate underlie fetal adaptive strategies” Invited paper for Symposium “From Conception to Birth: Selective Pressures Shaping Pregnancy and its Outcomes” with A.L. Thompson. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 194.

2003   Wilsman, N. J., Farnum, C. E., Leiferman, E. M., Markel, M., and Lampl, M. Bone elongation in lambs occurs during recumbency not standing / ambulation. Trans. Orthop. Res. Soc., 28.

2003   Lampl M. Fetus to infant in biomedical perspective. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 120:135.

2003   Thompson, AL Harris L, Lampl  M. Fueling infant growth: A longitudinal study of body composition and length. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 120: 207.

2002   Lampl, M., Jeanty, P. Timing Is Everything: Second and third trimester growth in fetal weight and length and the predictability of prenatal insults. American Journal of Human Biology 14:110.

2001   Kuzawa C.W., Lampl M., Jeanty, P. Fetal origins of adult disease: Prenatal insult or normal growth variation? American Journal of Human Biology 13:128.

2001   Lampl M., Kuzawa,C.W., Jeanty P. Building a body and a head: Sexual dimorphism under fetal constraint. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 114:95.

2000   Lampl M., Walrath D., Jeanty P. Fetal growth patterns: Responsivity and adaptation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 111:205.

1998   Lampl M., Bernstein I.M., Jeanty P., Walrath D. Fetal growth curve spurts: Fact and fiction regarding the fetal growth curve. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 26:146.

1998   Kuzawa C.W., Lampl M. Temporal relationships between linear growth and skinfold thickness: Stretching and filling or energetic tradeoffs? American Journal of Human Biology 10:128.

1997    Lampl M., Jack J.T. Human growth as chaos: Evolutionary implications. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 24:150.

1997   Glantz M., Mann A.E., Lampl M., Monge J. Population variability in molar enamel thickness. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 24: 118.

1996   Lampl M. Saltatory growth and illness patterns. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 22:145.

1996   Mann A.E., Lampl M., Monge J.M. The evolution of childhood: dental evidence of human maturation patterns. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 22: 156.

1995   Lampl M., Mann A.E., Monge J.M., Vandermeersch B., Tillier A-m. Variations in the dental enamel of living peoples: implications for human origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 20: 129 (abstract 216).

1995  Walrath D.E., Glantz M.M., Jeanty P., and Lampl M. Intrauterine growth velocity:The influences of genetic and environmental factors. American Journal of Human Biology 7 (1): 136 (abstract 154).

1994   Lampl M. Punctuation and continuity in growth: Issues in physiological regulation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 18: 126.

1994   Mann A.E., Lampl M. and Monge J.M. Comparative studies of enamel structure in living and extinct populations of Homo sapiens. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 18: 135.

1994   Birch L.L. and Lampl M. Evolutionary implications of saltatory growth dynamics and variability in nutritional intake during infancy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 18:55.

1993   Lampl M. and Johnston F.E. The determination and interpretation of the pattern of physical growth of earlier hominines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 16:129.

1993  Mann A.E., Lampl M. and Monge J.M. Population variation in the microstructure of human dental enamel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 16:138.

1992   Lampl M., Mann A.E. and Monge J.M. Tooth clocks or population markers? American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 14:105.

1991  Lampl M. Daily growth in infancy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 12: 109

1991  Mann A.E., Lampl M. and Monge J.M. The uses of scanning electron microscopy in the reconstruction of neandertal lifeways. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 12: 124.

1990  Lampl M. The use of modern growth standards in ontogenetic studies of earlier hominines.American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81: 254.

1989  Mann A.E., Monge J.M. and Lampl M. Dental dilemma: Human, ape, intermediate? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78: 267.

1988  Lampl M., Mann A.E. and Monge J.M. Ontogenetic studies of human ancestors and the maturational rubicon.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75:235.

1983  Johnston F.E. and Lampl M. Fatness during infancy and early childhood: Data from fat cell size and anthropometry. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60: 210.

1983  Lampl M. Postnatal infant growth: Leaps and bounds. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60: 215.

Book Reviews:

1994  Review: Growth, Maturation and Body Composition: The Fels Longitudinal Study 1929-1991. By A.F. Roche. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 93:283-285.

Invited Lectures:

2004. McKay Hospital Taipei, Taiwan.  “What we do and do not know about normal human growth.”

2003. National Institute of Child Health and Development, Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Wayne State University Medical School. Fetal growth patterns.

2002. National Institute of Child Health and Development. Consultant, Design of infant growth assessments for the proposed National Childrens’ Growth Study.

2001. “How children grow”. Emory University, Board of Trustees annual meeting.

2001. Seventh International Symposium of Human Biology, Köszeg, Hungary. Keynote Lecture. “The child is father to the man: Human growth then and now.”

2000 IXth International Congress of Auxology, Turin, Italy. “Novel approaches to the identification of saltatory growth” (with ML Johnson).

2000 Burke Nicholson Forum: "Science & Religion: Perspectives on Suffering and Healing". Emory University. Discussant.

1999 Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Seminar Series, Emory University. “Kids grow by leaps and bounds: Saltation and stasis in human growth.”

1999 Last Lecture Series, Emory University. “In my last lecture…”

1999 Invited speaker and session chair, IVth International Anthropological Congress,  August 31-September 4, 1999. Prague, Czech Republic. Session, “Growth and development,” Paper presented: “The adaptive function of irregular, saltatory growth patterns”. September 4, 1999.

1999 Centennial celebration of the discoveries at Krapina, Croatia. Zagreb, Croatia. “Variability in dental development patterns” (Mann, A., Lampl, M. and Monge, J.).

1999 “Saltatory growth”. Department of Pediatrics. Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1999 Great Teachers Lecture, Emory University. “Children do grow in spurts: What it reveals about their development.” www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1999/March/ermarch.1/3_1_99lampl.html

1998 Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. “Saltatory growth”.

1998 IV Dual Congress, International Association for the Study of Human Palaeontology and Human Biology. Johannesburg, South Africa.

1998 “How do boys grow?” Symposium, Male Gender and Health: Anthropological Perspectives.  Department of Anthropology, Emory University  20-21 March, 1998

1997 Anthropological Approaches to Male Gender, Health, and the Mortality Gap. “Male gender and health: Biological perspectives reconsidered” (with E.O. Smith) American Anthropological Association, Washington DC.

1997 VIIIth International Congress of Auxology, Philadelphia, June 30. “Modeling and analysis of growth as a saltatory phenomenon.

1997 Argentine Society of Pediatrics, Buenos Aires, June 19. “How infants grow."

Cultural and Biological Changes in Europe from the end of the Middle Paleolithic to the Neolithic, June 14, Universite de Bordeaux I, Talence, France. "The enamel microstructure of Neandertals: Contributions to our understanding of modern human origins" (with A. Mann and J. Monge)

1997 Endocrine Symposium, NSF Center for Biological Timing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June 9. "Approaches to the identification of pulsatility in human growth data."

1997 “Saltatory growth” Department of Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

1996 Invited participant, Conference on "Dental histology and the evolution of human growth" College de France and Foundation Singer-Poulignac, Paris.

1996 Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Guatemala City. "Saltatory growth patterns.

1995  Gerber Corporation, Fremont, Michigan. New Science Lecture, Research and Development. "Growth spurts in infancy and childhood."

1995. 22me Colloque des Anthropologistes de Langue Francaise. Brussels, Belgium. "Les dynamiques de la croissance saltatoire: une base adaptative chez l'homme."

1994. Pennsylvania State University. Conference on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,  "Saltatory growth as an example of nonlinear dynamics."

1994. Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation. Anaheim, CA. FASEB Symposium:  "Growth and Development," “Saltatory growth during infancy.”

1994. Wyeth Laboratories. Philadelphia. "Saltatory growth and the implications for variability in nutritional intake"

1993. NICHD, Rockville, MD. Workshop on "Dynamical systems methods for the study of interactions of genes and environment," “Saltatory growth.”

1993. Laboratory of Nutrition, Royal College of Veterinary Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Saltatory growth.”

1993 Department of International Nutrition, Cornell University, “Saltatory Growth.”

1993 2nd National Collaborative Growth Study Conference. New York City. “Human growth by saltation and stasis.”

1992. World Health Organization subcommittee on infant growth, Cornell University.

Other Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:       

2004   Xth International Congress of Auxology. July 4-7, 2004, Florence, Italy.  Synchronicity and time lagged relationships in serial infant growth data (with M. L. Johnson).

2004   Xth International Congress of Auxology. July 4-7, 2004, Florence, Italy. Bone growth (elongation) occurs during recumbency and not during standing/ambulation as documented in a lamb model, with N.J. Wilsman, C.E. Farnum, E.M. Leiferman, K. Noonan, M.D. Markel.

2004   Xth International Congress of Auxology. July 4-7, 2004, Florence, Italy. Infatn illness and the inherent risk of common events during the first year of life, with E.A. Quinn.

2004  Xth International Congress of Auxology. July 4-7, 2004, Florence, Italy, Sex differences in body composition with weight growth patterns in infancy, with A.L. Thompson.

2002  30th Anniversary Combined Meeting of the National Sickle Cell Disease Program and the  Sickle Cell Disease Association of America September 17-21, 2002 Washington, DC
“Parent Assessment Of Risk In Sickle Cell Hydroxyurea Treatment” J D Meyappan, M Lampl, L Hsu.

2000  IXth International Congress of Auxology, Turin, Italy. “Smoking and the long and the short of fetal growth (with PV Jeanty).”

1996  95th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 20-24, San Francisco. Symposium, "Biological anthropology as anthropology: A critical retrospective" with C. M. Worthman, "Human development: Old solutions, new questions."

1996  95th Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 20-24, San Francisco. Symposium, "The evolution of the ontogeny of enculturation" with AE Mann and JM Monge, "Childhood in human evolution: socialization and the maturational rubicon."

1996 10th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, Brussels, Belgium. "Saltatory growth and illness: Evidence for bidirectionality."

1996  10th Congress of the European Anthropological Association. Brussels. Poster. Methods for the identification of saltation and stasis in human growth data. (with M.L. Johnson).

1996  10th Congress of the European Anthropological Association. Variations in the dental enamel of Neandertals and modern humans. (with A.E. Mann, J.M. Monge).

1994  Seventh International Congress of Auxology, Szombathely, Hungary. "Saltatory growth."

1994  Society for Research in Biological Rhythms. Amelia Island, Florida."Preliminary observations on biological rhythms and saltatory growth" (with  M.L. Johnson and P. Jeanty).

1994  American Association for the Advancement of Science. San Francisco. Poster, "Nutritional intake and eating behavior in inner city children" (with J.  Roberts).

1993  21eme Colloque des anthropologistes de langue francaise, "Croissance et veillesement". Bordeaux, France, "La croissance par pousse et paliers".

1992  Eighth Congress of the European Anthropological Association. Madrid. "Growth and development perspectives on the study of fossil and skeletal samples of children" (with F.E. Johnston).

1992  Ninth International Symposium on Dental Morphology. Florence. "New information on the microstructure of neandertal and modern
European teeth (with A.E. Mann and J.M. Monge.

1992  Society for Research in Biological Rhythms, Amelia Island, Fla. "Evidence for saltatory human growth"  (with J.D. Veldhuis and M.L. Johnson).

1992  American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago. "Saltatory human growth," in symposium, "Human Growth  Patterns."

1991  Sixth International Congress of Auxology, Madrid, Spain "New method for the analysis of saltatory growth  in infancy" (with J.D. Veldhuis and M.L. Johnson).

1983  Society for Research in Child Development, Detroit. "Episodic growth and behavioral development."

1982  Third International Congress of Auxology, Brussels. "Episodic growth in infancy."