Tatum Simonson | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Tatum Simonson is an Associate Professor and the John B. West Endowed Chair in Respiratory Physiology in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Simonson applies integrative physiological genomics approaches to understand systems-level responses to hypoxia in highland populations. Her research provides evidence for genetic adaptations to high altitude and associations among these factors, molecular functions, and physiological traits. In addition to her research in the highlands of Tibet and Peru, her team studies natural variation in human responses to low oxygen and aims to understand the contributions of genetic and epigenetic factors to variation in hypoxia-related disease states (e.g., altitude illness, sleep apnea, and cardiopulmonary diseases). These and related interdisciplinary efforts are coordinated through the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen (CPGLO) at UC San Diego.

URLs:

http://profiles.ucsd.edu/tatum.simonson

https://pulmonary.ucsd.edu/research/labs-centers/simonson/people/index.html

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Genetics, Physiology

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 3 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Session	Symposium
2024-10-02	Human high-altitude adaptation	Osher Biennial Master Class I: An Anthology of Anthropogeny
2023-11-03	Life elevated: Insight into human-specific adaptations to high altitude	Comparative Anthropogeny and Other Approaches to Human Origins
2021-05-14	Human Adaptation to High Altitudes and Aquatic Environments	The Evolution of Human Physical Activity