Michael S. Hedrick, Ph.D. Faculty Profile

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

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 (CSUEB 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 CSUEB

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'