Michael S. Hedrick, Ph.D. Faculty Profile
Michael S. Hedrick, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
- E-mail: michael.hedrick@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-7443
- Office: SC-S 351
- Office Hours: M,W,F 1-2 pm (Fall Semester, 2020)
Professional Appointments and Positions
2005-present Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, CSU-East Bay
2016-2018 Director, Semester Conversion Initiative, CSU-East Bay
2014-2016 Chair, Academic Senate, CSU-East Bay
2011-2014 Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of North Texas
2008-2011 Chair, Dept. of Biological Sciences, CSU-East Bay
2000-2005 Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, CSU-East Bay
1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, CSU-Hayward
1994 Research Associate, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Univ. of Wisconsin
1991-93 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Comparative Biosciences, Univ. of Wisconsin
- PhD., 1991. Zoology. University of British Columbia
- M.S., 1985. Biology. Portland State University
- B.S., 1980. Biology. Lewis and Clark College
Not teaching this semester.
Recent Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Basile, A.J., Kirkton, S.D., Hedrick, M.S., Carey, H.V. and Sweazea, K.L. (2020). Modern comparative physiology: Results from a cross-sectional survey of physiologists and implications for physiological education. American Journal of Physiology - Integrative and Comparative Physiology. In Review.
Milsom, W.K., Gilmour, K., Perry, S., Gargaglioni, L., Hedrick, M.S., Kinkead, R. and Wang, T. (2020). Control of breathing in ectothermic vertebrates. Comprehensive Physiology. In Review.
Shartau, R.B., Baker, D.W., Harter, T.S., Aboagye, D.L, Allen, P.J., Val, A.L., Crossley II, D.A., Kohl, Z.F., Hedrick, M.S., Damsgaard, C. and Brauner, C.J. (2020). Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223: jeb208868. Featured 'Inside JEB' article.
Hancock, T.V. and Hedrick, M.S. (2018). Physiological vagility affects population genetic structure and dispersal and enables migratory capacity in vertebrates. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 223: 42-51.
Hillman, S.S. and Hedrick, M.S. (2018). A metabolic hypothesis for the evolution of temperature effects on the aterial PCO2 and pH of vertebrate ectotherms. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221: jeb168955.
Enok, S., Leite, G., Leite, C., Gesser, H. Hedrick, M.S. and Wang, T. (2016). Improved cardiac filling facilitates the postprandial elevation of stroke volume in Python regius. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219: 3009-3018.
Johnson, S.M., Hedrick, M.S., Krause, B.M., Nilles, J.P. and Chapman, M.A. (2016). Respiratory neuron characterization reveals intrinsic bursting properties in isolated adult turtle brainstems (Trachemys scripta). Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology. 224: 52-61.
Hedrick, M.S., Hancock, T.V. and Hillman, S.S. (2015). Metabolism at the max: how vertebrate organisms respond to physical activity. Comprehensive Physiology. 5: 1677-1703.
Hillman, S.S. and Hedrick, M.S. (2015). A meta-analysis of in vivo vertebrate cardiac performance: implications for cardiovascular support in the evolution of endothermy. Journal of Experimental Biology. 218: 1143-1150. Featured 'Inside JEB' article.
Hedrick, M.S., McNew, K.A. and Crossley II, D.A. (2015). Baroreflex function in anurans from different environments. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A. 179: 144-148.
Hillman, S.S., Drewes, R.C., Hedrick, M.S. and Hancock, T.V. (2014). Physiological vagility and its relationship to dispersal and neutral genetic heterogeneity in vertebrates. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 3356-3364.
Hedrick, M.S., Hansen, K., Wang, T., Lauridsen, H., Thygesen, J. and Pedersen, M. (2014). Visualising lymph movement in anuran amphibians with computed tomography. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 2990-2993. Featured ‘Inside JEB’ article.
Hillman, S.S., Hedrick, M.S. and Kohl, Z.F. (2014). Net cardiac shunts in anuran amphibians: physiology or physics? Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 2844-2847.
Marschand, R., Wilson, J., Burleson, M.L., Crossley, D.A. and Hedrick, M.S. (2014). Effects of prolonged lung inflation or deflation on pulmonary stretch receptor discharge in the alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 200: 25-32.
Buckley, B.A., Hedrick, M.S. and Hillman, S.S. (2014). Cardiovascular oxygen transport limitations to thermal niche expansion and environmental PO2 in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 499-506.
Withers, P.C., Hedrick, M.S., Drewes, R.C. and Hillman, S.S. (2014). Pulmonary compliance and lung volume are related to terrestriality in anuran amphibians. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 374-383.
Turesson, J., Hedrick, M.S., Sundin, L. and Burleson, M.L. (2014). Brainstem mechanisms controlling cardiovascular reflexes in channel catfish. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part. A. 170: 1-5.
Hillman, S.S., Drewes, R.C., Hedrick, M.S. and Hancock, T.V. (2014). Physiological vagility: Correlations with dispersal and population genetic structure of amphibians. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 105-112.
Burggren, W.W., Christoffels, V.M., Crossley, D.A., Enok, S., Farrell, A.P., Hedrick, M.S., Hicks, J.W., Jensen, B., Moorman, A.F.M., Mueller, C., Skovgaard, N., Taylor, E.W. and Wang, T. (2014). Comparative cardiovascular physiology: Future trends, opportunities and challenges. Acta Physiologica 210: 257-276.
Hedrick, M.S., Hillman, S.S., Drewes, R.C. and Withers, P.C. (2013). Lymphatic regulation in nonmammalian vertebrates. Journal of Applied Physiology 115: 297-308.
Kohl, Z.F., Hedrick, M.S. and Hillman, S.S. (2013). Separating the contributions of vascular anatomy and blood viscosity to peripheral resistance and the physiological implications of interspecific resistance variation in amphibians. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 183: 921-932.
Drewes, R.C., Hillman, S.S., Hedrick, M.S. and Withers, P.C. (2013). Evolutionary implications of the distribution and variation of the skeletal muscles of the anuran lymphatic system. Zoomorphology. 132: 339-349.
Klingler, M.J. and Hedrick, M.S. (2013). Evidence for rhombomeric organization of multiple respiratory oscillators during development in the bullfrog brainstem. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 186: 7-15.
Hillman, S.S., Hancock, T.V. and Hedrick, M.S. (2013). A comparative meta-analysis of maximal aerobic metabolism of vertebrates: Implications for respiratory and cardiovascular limits to gas exchange. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 183: 167-179.
Book Chapters
Hedrick, M.S. and Katz, S.L. Control of breathing in primitive fishes. In: Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes. (edited by Giacomo Zaccone, Konrad Dabrowski, Michael S. Hedrick, J. M.O. Fernandes and Jose M. Icardo). CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2016, pp. 179-200.
Books
Zaccone, G., Dabrowski, K., Hedrick, M.S., Fernandes, J.M.O and Icardo, J. (editors). Phylogeny, Anatomy and Physiology of Ancient Fishes. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2016, 297 pp.
Invited Book Reviews
Hedrick, M.S. (2020). Out of Africa. A review of Fires of Life - Endothermy in Birds and Mammals. Barry G. Lovegrove. Yale Univ. Press, 2019, 356 p. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101(2): e01672.
Hedrick, M.S. (2010). Review of Airway Chemoreceptors in the Vertebrates - Structure, Evolution and Function, edited by Zaccone, G., Cutz, E., Adriaensen, D., Nurse, C.A. and Mauceri, A., Science Publishers, 2009. 436 p. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 50: 254-256.
Other Publications
Hedrick, M.S., Olson, K.R. and Hillman, S.S. (2020). The spleen as an unlikely source of red blood cells during activity in fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223: jeb223586.
Warren, D.E. and Hedrick, M.S. (2020). Introduction to the special issue: The state of acid-base physiology in a changing world. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. 241: 110630.
Hedrick, M.S., Moyes, C.D., Grosell, M. and Martyniuk, C.J. (2019). Special issue on aquaculture: New opportunities to address global food supply for comparative biochemistry and physiology. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B. 233: 1-3.
Hillman, S.S., Hedrick, M.S. and Kohl, Z.F. (2017). Commentary on: "Vascular distensiblities have minor effects on intracardiac shunt patterns in reptiles" Zoology. 122: 52-54.
Hedrick, M.S. and Hillman, S.S. (2016). What drove the evolution of endothermy? JEB Classics: Endothermy and Activity in Vertebrates, by A.F. Bennett and J.A. Ruben. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 300-301.
Recent Conference Presentations/Abstracts
Basile, A.J., Kirkton, S.D., Hedrick, M.S. and Sweazea, K.L. (2020). Modern comparative physiology: under Krogh's umbrella. Exp. Biol. San Diego, CA.
Hedrick, M.S., Kohl, Z.F., Bertelsen, M., Stagegaard, J., Fago, A. and Wang, T. (2019). Oxygen transport characteristics of blood from the fastest terrestrial mammal, the African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus). Exp. Biol. Orlando, FL.
Hedrick, M.S. (2018). Limits to maximal oxygen transport in vertebrates. Roy Weber Symposium. Sonderborg, Denmark.
Hedrick, M.S. and Hillman, S.S. (2018). A metabolic hypothesis for the evolution of temperature effects on the arterial PCO2 and pH of ectothermic vertebrates. Soc. Int. Comp. Biol. San Francisco, CA.
Hedrick, M.S., Streicher, J.W., Crossley II, D.A. and Fujita, M.K. (2015). Maximal metabolic rates of the Barking frog (Craugastor augusti). Exp. Biol. Boston, MA.
Recent External Grants
NSF “Collaborative Research: Effects of Developmental Hypoxia on Juvenile Cardiac Function.” (5/15/19-4/30/22). $90,000. Grant no. IOS-1755253 - Integrative Organismal Systems.
NSF “Experimental tests of a physical model for lymph flow in anurans.” $320,336. Co-PI. (2/15/09-1/31/13). Grant no. IOS 0843082 – Integrative Organismal Systems.
NIH “Cellular mechanisms for breathing and hypoxia tolerance.” $476,085. PI. (6/1/05-5/31/09). Grant no. SO6 GM48135 (ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ MBRS/SCORE program).
NSF “Developing a comprehensive physical model of lymph movement in amphibians.” $146,344. Co-PI. (8/31/01-9/1/05). Grant no. IBN 0110713 - Integrative Animal Biology.
Awards and Honors
Fellow of the American Physiological Society (elected 2018)
Research Career Enhancement Award - American Physiological Society (2009)
Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences (elected 2008)
George and Miriam Phillips Outstanding Professor Award, CSU, East Bay (2007)
National Institutes of Health - National Research Service Award (1992-1994)
Professional Service
Editor-in-Chief, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A (2013-present)
Selection Board, APS Select (2018-present)
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Respiratory Physiology (2015-present)
Editorial Board, American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology (2013-present)
Editorial Board, Journal of Comparative Physiology B (2012-present)
Editorial Board, Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology (2008-2012)
Chair, Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society (2015-2018)
Publications Committee, American Physiological Society (2019-2022)
Councilor, American Physiological Society (2020-2023)
Service to ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ
Chair, Academic Senate (2014-2016)
Chair, Department of Biological Sciences (2008-2011)
Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (1998-2011; 2014-2019 )
Graduate Students Mentored
CSU, East Bay
Rey Morales (M.S.1997)
Lise Broch (M.S.2000)
Jennifer Lucitti (M.S. 2001)
Monica Martinez (M.S. 2002)
Rachel Winmill (M.S. 2003)
Anna Chen (M.S. 2007)
Nick Nimmo (M.S. 2007)
John Polos (M.S. 2007)
Amritha Menon (M.S. 2007)
Mary Ann Maravillas (M.S. 2008)
Eric Wasiolek (M.S. 2008)
Michael Klingler (M.S. 2012)
University of North Texas
David Oden (M.S. 2013)
Rachel Marschand (M.S. 2013)
Music
Bassist for 'The Third Reviewers' and 'The Never Evers'