CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE (2 Sept 2005)

SCOTT ALAN HECKATHORN

ADDRESS: Department of Earth, Ecological, & Environmental Sciences

University of Toledo PHONE: 419-530-2925, -4328

MS 604 FAX: 419-530-4421

Toledo, OH 43606 EMAIL: scott.heckathorn@utoledo.edu

EDUCATION:

B.S. 1985 Biology, Wichita State University

M.S. 1990 Plant Biology, University of Illinois

Major Advisor: Evan H. DeLucia

Ph.D. May 1995 Plant Biology, University of Illinois

Major Advisor: Evan H. DeLucia

Final Exam Passed: 31 March 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aug. 2003- Assistant professor, Department of Earth, Ecological, and Environmental

present Sciences, University of Toledo (tenure/promotion review, Fall 2005)

July 1999- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, Syracuse University

Aug. 2003

Jan. 1998- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, College of Charleston

July 1999

April 1994- Post-doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Biology, Syracuse University,

Dec. 1997 Advisor: J.S. Coleman

1992-93 Proctor and Gamble Graduate Research Fellow, Dept. of Plant Biology, University of Illinois

1987-94 Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept. of Plant Biology, Univ. of Illinois

1984-86 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Biology, Wichita State University, Advisor: A.L. Youngman

1984-85 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Biology, Wichita State University

PUBLICATIONS: [All are in referred journals or books]

Co-authors supervised by Heckathorn in bold (either undergraduate or graduate students, technicians, or post-doctoral researchers of Heckathorn)

* Indicates significant contribution to paper from Heckathorn (and lab) while at U. Toledo, and published attribution of UT in heading of paper.

1) DeLucia EH, Heckathorn SA. 1989. The effect of soil drought on water-use efficiency in a contrasting Great Basin desert and Sierran montane species. Plant, Cell and Environment 12:935-940.

2) Day TA, Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH. 1991. Limitations of photosynthesis in Pinus taeda L. (Loblolly Pine) at low soil temperatures. Plant Physiology 96:1246-1254.

3) Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH. 1991. Effect of leaf rolling on gas exchange and leaf temp-erature of Andropogon gerardii and Spartina pectinata. Botanical Gazette 152:263-268.

4) DeLucia EH, Heckathorn SA. 1992. Effects of soil temperature on growth, biomass allocation and resource acquisition of Andropogon gerardii Vitman. New Phytologist 120:543-549.

5) Youngman AL, Heckathorn SA. 1992. Effect of salinity on water relations of two growth forms of Suaeda calceoliformis. Functional Ecology 6:686-692.

6) Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH. 1994. Drought-induced nitrogen retranslocation in perennial C₄ grasses of tallgrass prairie. Ecology 75:1877-1886.

7) Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH. 1995. Ammonia volatilization during drought in perennial C₄ grasses of tallgrass prairie. Oecologia 101:361-365.

8) Coleman JS, Heckathorn SA, Hallberg RL. 1995. Heat-shock proteins and thermotolerance: linking molecular and ecological perspectives. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 10:305-306.

9) Heckathorn SA, Poeller GJ, Coleman JS, Hallberg RL. 1996. Nitrogen availability alters patterns of accumulation of heat stress-induced proteins in plants. Oecologia 105:413-418.

10) Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH. 1996. Retranslocation of shoot nitrogen to rhizomes and roots in prairie grasses may limit loss of N to grazing and fire during drought. Functional Ecology 10:396-400.

11) Heckathorn SA, Poeller GJ, Coleman JS, Hallberg RL. 1996. Nitrogen availability and vegetative development influence the response of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, and heat-shock protein content to heat stress in Zea mays L. International Journal of Plant Sciences 157:546-553.

12) Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH, Zielinski RE. 1997. The contribution of drought-related decreases in foliar nitrogen concentration to decreases in photosynthetic capacity during and after drought in prairie grasses. Physiologia Plantarum 101:173-182.

13) Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS, Hallberg RL. 1997. Recovery of net CO₂ assimilation after heat stress is correlated with recovery of levels of oxygen-evolving-complex proteins in Zea mays L. Photosynthetica 34:13-20.

14) Downs CA, Heckathorn SA, Bryan JK, Coleman JS. 1998. The methionine-rich low-molecular-weight chloroplast heat-shock protein: evolutionary conservation and accumulation in relation to thermotolerance. American Journal of Botany 85:175-183.

15) Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Coleman JS. 1998. Nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins accumulate in the cytosol during severe heat stress. International Journal of Plant Sciences 159:39-45.

16) Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Sharkey TD, Coleman JS. 1998. The small methionine-rich chloroplast heat-shock protein protects photosystem II electron transport during heat stress. Plant Physiology 116:439-444.

17) Downs CA, Heckathorn SA. 1998. The mitochondrial small heat-shock protein protects NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase of the electron transport chain during heat stress in plants. FEBS Letters 430:246-250.

18) Heckathorn SA, McNaughton SJ, Coleman JS. 1999. C₄ plants and herbivory. in The biology of C₄ photosynthesis (R Sage and R Monson, eds.). Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

19) Downs CA, Jones LR, Heckathorn SA. 1999. Evidence for a novel set of small heat-shock proteins that associate with mitochondria of murine PC12 nerve cells and protects NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase from heat stress and oxidative stress. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 365:344-350.

20) Downs CA, Coleman JS, Heckathorn SA. 1999. The chloroplast 22-Ku heat-shock protein: a lumenal protein that associates with the oxygen evolving complex and protects Photosystem II during heat stress. Journal of Plant Physiology 155:477-487.

21) Downs CA, Ryan SL, Heckathorn SA. 1999. The chloroplast small heat-shock protein: evidence for a general role in protecting Photosystem II against oxidative stress and photoinhibition. Journal of Plant Physiology 155:488-496.

22) Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Coleman JS. 1999. Small heat-shock proteins protect electron transport in chloroplasts and mitochondria during stress. American Zoologist 39:865-876.

23) Preczewski P, Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Coleman JS. 2000. Photosynthetic thermo-tolerance is quantitatively and positively correlated with production of specific heat-shock proteins among nine genotypes of Lycopersicon (tomato). Photosynthetica 38:127-134.

24) Hamilton^III EW, Heckathorn SA. 2001. Mitochondrial adaptations to NaCl stress. Complex I is protected by anti-oxidants and small heat-shock proteins, whereas Complex II is protected by proline and betaine. Plant Physiology 126:1266-1274.

25) Downs CA, Heckathorn SA. 2001. The mitochondrial small heat-shock proteins and their protection of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) during stress. in Mitochondrial ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q₁₀): biochemical, functional, medical, and therapeutic aspects in human health and diseases ( M Ebadi, J Marwah, RK Chopra, eds.). Prominent Press, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.

26) Heckathorn SA, Ryan SL, Baylis JA, Wang D, Hamilton^III EW, Cundiff L, Luthe DS. 2002. In vivo evidence from an Agrostis stolonifera selection genotype that chloroplast small heat-shock proteins can protect Photosystem II during heat stress. Functional Plant Biology (formerly Australian Journal of Plant Physiology) 29:933-944.

27) Mueller JK, Heckathorn SA, Fernando D. 2003. Identification of a chloroplast dehydrin in leaves of mature plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164:535-542.

28) Barua D, Heckathorn SA, Downs CA. 2003. Variation in chloroplast small heat-shock protein function is a major determinant of variation in thermotolerance of photosynthetic electron transport among ecotypes of Chenopodium album. Functional Plant Biology 30:1071-1079.

29) Barua D, Heckathorn SA. 2004. Acclimation of the temperature set-points of the heat-shock response. Journal of Thermal Biology 29:185-193.

*30) Heckathorn SA, Mueller JK, LaGuidice S, Zhu B, Barrett T, Blair B, Dong Y. 2004. Chloroplast small heat-shock proteins protect photosynthesis during heavy metal stress. American Journal of Botany 91:1312-1318.

31) Barua D, Heckathorn SA. The relative importance of light and temperature on heat-shock protein accumulation in Solidago altissima (Asteraceae) in the field and laboratory. American Journal of Botany (accepted).

*32) Barua D, Heckathorn SA. Ecological and evolutionary patterns in the heat-shock response. (in revision for Ecology Letters).

*33) Barua D, Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS. Variation in heat-shock proteins and photosynthetic thermotolerance among natural populations of Chenopodium album from contrasting thermal environments. (in revision for Plant Ecology).

*34) Klotz C, Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS, Hamilton EW. The relative sensitivity of net photosynthesis vs. photosystem II and electron transport to acute heat stress varies among species and with growth conditions. (in review for Functional Plant Biology).

Manuscripts in preparation (data collection complete; submission within 1-3 months)

*35) Wang D, Barua D, Heckathorn SA, Joshi, P, Hamilton^III EW. The effects of elevated CO₂ on photosynthetic tolerance to acute heat stress vary with photosynthetic pathway.

*36) SpijkermanE, BaruaD, Gerloff-EliasA, HeckathornSA, KernJ, HausmannK, Gaedke U. Stress-induced proteins and metal tolerance of Chlamydomonas acidophila exposed to metal enriched conditions.

*37) Qureshi S, Heckathorn S, Hamilton EW, Luthe D. Isolation and characterization of chloroplast small heat-shock-protein genes from two Chenopodium album ecotypes.

*38) Qureshi S, Heckathorn S, Hamilton EW, Luthe D. Evolutionary diversification of chloroplast small heat-shock proteins in higher plants.

*39) Kassem I**, Joshi P**, Heckathorn SA, Sigler WV. Elevated CO₂ affects the response of a C₄ grass and the associated soil microbial community to drought. (**equal co-authors)

RESEARCH SUPPORT:

* Indicates all or part of award made to Heckathorn at U. Toledo

1998 National Science Foundation (collaborative grants; PI = SA Heckathorn; total = $280,000, $140,000 to SAH and $140,000 to the co-PI (& SAH); sponsored jointly by the Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology and Integrated Plant Biology Programs), for the project entitled “Protective interaction of a small heat-shock protein with Photosystem II”; 1 Feb. 1998-31 Jan. 2001.

*2001 National Science Foundation (collaborative grants; PI = SA Heckathorn, co-PIs = EW Hamilton and DS Luthe; total = $344,922, $231,195 to SAH & EWH and $113,726 to DSL (& SAH); sponsored by the Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Program), for the project entitled “Ecological physiology of the plant chloroplast small heat-shock proteins”, 1 Aug. 2001-30 July 2004.

[Note: Year 3 of this award was transferred to the University of Toledo, when Heckathorn moved from Syracuse U. to U. Toledo.]

2001 Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (one-year graduate fellowship; PI = SA Heckathorn, co-PI = EW Hamilton; total = $20,000), for the project entitled "Protection of mitochondrial and chloroplastic electron transport by stress proteins during environmental stress"; Aug. 2001-Aug. 2002.

2001 Stanford University Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (grant for x-ray absorption spectroscopy beamtime; PI = P Riggs-Gelasco, co-PIs = E Yu, E Behshad, S Heckathorn, M Bollinger), for the project entitled "Identification of physiological sulfur oxidation in biological systems"; Fall 2001-Fall 2002.

2002 International Quality Network-University of Potsdam, Germany (grant for collaborative research with Dr. Elly Spijkerman at the University of Potsdam; salary, travel, and research funds to support me and my student for up to six months in Potsdam), for research on "Cellular adaptations to multiple stresses in native algae occurring in acidic heavy metal-contaminated mining lakes in Germany"; Dec 2002-March 2003.

2003 International Quality Network-University of Potsdam, Germany (grant for collaborative research with Dr. Elly Spijkerman at the University of Potsdam; salary, travel, and research funds to support me for up to one month in Potsdam), for research on "Cellular adaptations to multiple stresses in native algae occurring in acidic heavy metal-contaminated mining lakes in Germany"; Dec 2003.

*2004 National Science Foundation (collaborative grants; PI = SA Heckathorn, co-PI = EW Hamilton; total = $401,867, $271,169 to SAH and $130,698 to EWH (& SAH); sponsored by the Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Program), for the project entitled “CO₂-induced changes in heat-shock proteins and photosynthetic tolerance to acute heat stress”, 1 Feb. 2004-31 January 2007.

*2004 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Specific Cooperative Agreement; co-PIs = John Gray, SA Heckathorn, & Jonathan Franz; total = $141, 315), for the project "Biomonitoring of nutritional and environmental stress in plants", May 2004-March 2009.

*2005 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Specific Cooperative Agreement continuation; co-PIs = John Gray, SA Heckathorn, & Jonathan Franz; total = $214,573), for the project "Biomonitoring of nutritional and environmental stress in plants", May 2004-March 2009.

PRESENTATIONS AT MEETINGS:

Co-authors supervised by Heckathorn in bold (either undergraduate or graduate students, technicians, or post-doctoral researchers of Heckathorn)

* Indicates significant contribution to presentation from Heckathorn (and lab) while at U. Toledo, and published attribution of UT in proceedings of meeting.

1986 Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Youngman AL) (winner of best student paper award)

1986 Great Plains Ecological Conclave annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Youngman AL)

1987 Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Youngman AL)

1988 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Youngman AL)

1990 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH)

1991 Midwest Section of the American Society of Plant Physiologists annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH)

1991 University of Missouri 10^th Annual Current Topics in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Symposium. (Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH) (winner of best student paper award)

1992 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH)

1993 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, DeLucia EH)

1994 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS)

1994 American Society of Plant Physiologists annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS)

1995 Gordon Research Conference on Temperature Stress in Plants. (Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS, Hallberg RL)

1996 Ecological Society of America annual meeting.

(1- Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS, Hallberg RL;

2- Hamilton EW, Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Schwarz T, Coleman JS, Hallberg R)

1997 Gordon Research Conference on Temperature Stress in Plants. (Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Coleman JS)

1998 South Carolina Academy of Sciences annual meeting. (Downs CA, Heckathorn SA) (winner of best paper award by CA Downs)

1999 Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology annual meeting. (Heckathorn SA, Downs CA, Coleman JS)

2000 North American Benthological Society annual meeting. (Mayer CM, Heckathorn SA, Bothwell ML, Ulseth A, Hershey AE)

2001 New York State Chapter, American Fisheries Society annual meeting. (Mayer CM, Tisch N, Heckathorn SA, Lynch N, Philippon J, Higgins M, Langton N) (winner of best poster award)

2001 Northeast Section of the American Society of Plant Physiology annual meeting.

(1- Hamilton EW, Heckathorn SA;

2- Mueller JK, Barrett T, Blair B, Dong Y, LaGuidice S, Zhu B, Heckathorn SA)

2001 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Barua D, Heckathorn SA, Coleman JS)

2001 American Society of Plant Physiology annual meeting. (Mueller JK, Heckathorn SA)

2002 North American Benthological Society annual meeting. (Mayer CM, Tisch N, Haynes J, Philippon J, Heckathorn SA)

2003 Ecological Society of America annual meeting. (Hamilton EW, Heckathorn SA)

*2004 Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium annual meeting. (Barua D, Heckathorn S).

*2005 Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology annual meeting. (Barua D, Heckathorn S)

*2005 International Association of Great Lakes Researchers annual meeting. (Mayer C, Lohner R, Heckathorn S, Bridgeman T)

*2005 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography annual meeting. (Mayer CM, Johnson R, Lohner RL, Rudstam L, Mills E, Bridgeman T, Heckathorn S)

*2005 American Society of Plant Biology annual meeting. (Qureshi S, Heckathorn S, Luthe D)

*2005 Ecological Society of America annual meeting.

(1- Wang D, Barua D, Heckathorn SA, Joshi P, Hamilton EW;

2- Barua D, Heckathorn S;

3- Heckathorn S, Qureshi SN, Hamilton EW, Luthe D, Joshi P)

INVITED SEMINARS:

Syracuse University, 1994

State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, 1996

University of Illinois-Chicago, 1996

University of Puerto Rico, 1997

College of Charleston, 1997

University of Cincinnati, 1999

Syracuse University, 1999

University of New Mexico, 1999

Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, 1999 meeting, Symposium on Organismal, Ecological, & Evolutionary Significance of Heat Shock Proteins and the Heat Shock Response

University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1999

University at Buffalo, 2001

Ithaca College, 2001

State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, 2001

Clarkson University, 2003

University of Toledo (EEES), 2003

University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003

Bowling Green State University, 2004

University of Toledo (Biology), Fall 2005

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:

Courses-

College of Charleston:

Plant Physiology- An upper-division undergraduate course; three, 1-hour lectures each week and one, 3-hour lab.

Photoscience- A special topics seminar course in photobiology, photochemistry, & photophysics; one hour per week; co-taught with faculty from Chemistry and Physics.

Syracuse:

Plant Physiology- A split-level course for both upper-division undergraduates and graduate students; three, 1-hour lectures each week.

Physiological Plant Ecology- A split-level course for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate students; two, 3-hour classes each week; an inquiry based laboratory course emphasizing exposure to scientific process, techniques, literature, and writing.

Freshman Forum- A university-wide orientation course for incoming freshman students, consisting of eight, 1-hour meetings (one per week) during the first half of their first semester, plus two extra-class social/cultural activities.

Toledo:

Special Topics in Plant Physiological Ecology- A split-level course for both upper-division undergraduate and graduate students; two, 3-hour classes each week; an inquiry based laboratory course emphasizing exposure to scientific process, techniques, and literature.

Plant Physiological Ecology- A split-level course for both upper-division undergraduates and graduate students; three, 1-hour lectures each week and one, 3-hour lab.

Plants and Society- A non-majors course for undergraduates; general introduction to plants and plant biology, with a focus on the importance of plants to humans; 3-h lecture/wk.

Post-graduate, Graduate, & Undergraduate Research-

(* Indicates undergraduate advisee co-authors on one or more publications each.)

College of Charleston:

-Undergraduate Research Students:

*Samantha Ryan, Summer 1998

*Joanne Baylis, Fall 1998 (co-advised senior honor-thesis project with L. Jones, Physics)

*Lee Cundiff, Spring 1999

Amy Kirincich, Summer 1999 (co-supervised with C. Woodley, NOAA)

Claire Chandler, Summer 1999 (co-supervised with C. Woodley, NOAA)

Syracuse:

-Post-Doctoral Research Associates:

E. William Hamilton, Sept. 1999-July 2001 (now Assist. Prof., Washington & Lee Univ.)

-Graduate Students:

J. Kathleen Mueller, M.S., Sept. 1999-Dec. 2001 (now high school teacher, NY)

Deepak Barua, Ph.D., Sept. 1999-Aug. 2003

Yan Dong, Sept. 2003-Aug. 2003 (Ph.D. co-advisor; primary advisor = S. McNaughton)

-Graduate Advisory/Prelim Exam Committees:

Yan Dong, Christian Oest, Jeff Kovatch, Vinatha Viswanathan, Bin Zhu, Peibing Qin, Andrew Campbell, Rebecca Johnson, Stacey Massulik

-Thesis Defense Committees:

Mahesh Sankaran, Ph.D., Feb. 2001

Christian Oest, M.S., Aug. 2001

Georgiana Gould, Ph.D., Nov. 2001

-Undergraduate Research Students:

*Carrie Klotz, Sept. 2001-May 2002 (now in medical school, Johns Hopkins U.)

Kelly Spratt, Fall 2001

Toledo:

-Post-Doctoral Research Associates:

Deepak Barua, Feb. 2004-Aug. 2005 (now post-doctoral associate at Harvard Univ.)

Dharma Pitchay, Jan. 2005-present (co-supervised with J. Gray, J. Frantz)

-Graduate Students:

Dan Wang, Ph.D., Fall 2004-present

Puneet Joshi, M.S., Fall 2004-present

Mei Chen, Ph.D., Fall 2004-present

Kumar Mainali, M.S., Fall 2005

-Undergraduate Research Students:

Jessica Henning, Summer 2004

-Graduate Advisory/Prelim Exam Committees:

Michael Hapiak (Biology)

Samina Qureshi, Mississippi State University

HONORS, AWARDS, ETC.:

1986 Best student paper. Kansas Academy of Science annual meeting.

1988 Explorers Club Exploration Fund Research Grant. $930.

1988 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. $350.

1989-94 Daily Illini Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked As Excellent By Their Students. University of Illinois.

1990 Department of Plant Biology Teaching Award of Excellence. University of Illinois.

1990 Clark Summer Grant. School of Life Sciences. Univ. of Illinois. $2000.

1991 Best Student Poster. University of Missouri-Columbia 10^th Annual Current Topics in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Symposium.

1991 Clark Research Support Grant. School of Life Sciences. Univ. of Illinois. $1000.

1992 Proctor & Gamble Fellowship. School of Life Sciences. Univ. of Illinois. $15,000.

1998 Research featured on the inside cover of the American Journal of Botany.

1999 Research featured in cover illustration of the 1 & 15 June issues of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

2000 Research featured in BioScience (Nov 2000, 50:979-995, Ackerly et al.) article on "The evolution of plant ecophysiological traits: recent advances and future directions".

SERVICE:

External, Scientific-

Manuscript reviewer for: