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H Craig Heller

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Profile: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/H Craig_Heller/
Academic Appointments
Appointment
Organization
Professor
Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)
Member
Bio-X
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Neurosciences ;
 
Honors & Awards
Title
Organization
Date(s)
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
Administrative Appointments
Title
Organization
Start Year
End Year
Curriculum Committee
BioEngineering
2007
-
K-12 Steering Committee
School of Education
2007
-
Executive Committee
Human Biology
2006
-
Chair, Curriculum Committee
Human Biology
2006
-
Chair
Wallenberg Global Learning Network Steering Committee
2001
-
7  appointments: view full list
Professional Education
Degree
Awarding Institution
Field of Study
Year of Graduation
PhD
Yale University
Biology
1970
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
  • von der Ohe CG, Garner CC, Darian-Smith C, Heller HC "Synaptic protein dynamics in hibernation." J Neurosci 2007; 27: 1: 84-92 More »
  • Flores AE, Flores JE, Deshpande H, Picazo JA, Xie XS, Franken P, Heller HC, Grahn DA, O'Hara BF "Pattern recognition of sleep in rodents using piezoelectric signals generated by gross body movements." IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2007; 54: 2: 225-33 More »
  • Franken P, Thomason R, Heller HC, O'Hara BF "A non-circadian role for clock-genes in sleep homeostasis: a strain comparison." BMC Neurosci 2007; 8: 87 More »
  • Franken P, Gip P, Hagiwara G, Ruby NF, Heller HC "Glycogen content in the cerebral cortex increases with sleep loss in C57BL/6J mice." Neurosci Lett 2006; More »
  • von der Ohe CG, Darian-Smith C, Garner CC, Heller HC "Ubiquitous and temperature-dependent neural plasticity in hibernators." J Neurosci 2006; 26: 41: 10590-8 More »
84 publications:   view full list