H Craig Heller

Administrative Appointments

• Curriculum Committee, BioEngineering (2007 - present)
• K-12 Steering Committee, School of Education (2007 - present)
• Executive Committee, Human Biology (2006 - present)
• Chair, Curriculum Committee, Human Biology (2006 - present)
• Chair, Wallenberg Global Learning Network Steering Committee (2001 - present)
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Honors and Awards

• William and Lynde Steere University Fellow, University (2004-2009)
• Lorry I. Lokey Business Wire Professor, Biology/Human Biology (1993-present)
• Bing Professor of Human Biology, Human Biology (1987-1993)

Professional Education

• PhD, Yale University, Biology (1970)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurosciences

Research Interests

Neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms, regulation of body temperature, mammalian hibernation, and human exercise physiology. We study neural mechanisms controlling arousal states and arousal state transitions, the function of sleep, and the neural mechanisms of circadian rhythms. Research on human exercise physiology focuses on the effects of body temperature on physical conditioning and performance.

Publications

• Synaptic protein dynamics in hibernation. von der Ohe CG, Garner CC, Darian-Smith C, Heller HC "J Neurosci" 2007 ; 1 (27) : 84-92
• Pattern recognition of sleep in rodents using piezoelectric signals generated by gross body movements. Flores AE, Flores JE, Deshpande H, Picazo JA, Xie XS, Franken P, Heller HC, Grahn DA, O'Hara BF "IEEE Trans Biomed Eng" 2007 ; 2 (54) : 225-33
• A non-circadian role for clock-genes in sleep homeostasis: a strain comparison. Franken P, Thomason R, Heller HC, O'Hara BF "BMC Neurosci" 2007 : (8) : 87
• Glycogen content in the cerebral cortex increases with sleep loss in C57BL/6J mice. Franken P, Gip P, Hagiwara G, Ruby NF, Heller HC "Neurosci Lett" 2006 ; 1-2 (402) : 176-9
• Ubiquitous and temperature-dependent neural plasticity in hibernators. von der Ohe CG, Darian-Smith C, Garner CC, Heller HC "J Neurosci" 2006 ; 41 (26) : 10590-8