Dr. Eileen Hickey, Research Associate Professor Emeritus
Molecular Biology; Heat Shock Proteins as biomarkers of environmental stress in salmonid fishes. Microsatellite DNA sequence analysis in evaluating gene flow among isolated populations of enadangered species.

State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
1964, B.S., Biology
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1967, M.S., Developmental Biology
University of Berne, Switzerland
1970, Ph.D., Developmental Biology

Current Projects / Recent Publications
Polymorphism in the Trout HSP30 Gene: Strain Identification and Possible Functional Significance.

High throughput sequence analysis of microsatellite loci in the Western toad (Bufo boreas).

Norris, C.E., Brown, M.A., Hickey, E., Weber, L.A., and Hightower, L.E. Low molecular proteins in a desert fish (Poeciliopsis lucida): homologs of human Hsp27 and Xenopus Hsp30. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14:1050-1061

Michael J. Borrelli, Laura J Bernock, Jacques Landry, Douglas R Spitz, Lee A. Weber, Eileen Hickey, Michael L. Freeman, and Peter M. Corry: Stress protection by a fluorescent Hsp27 chimera that is independent of nuclear translocation or multimeric dissociation. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 7 : 281-296 (2002)

University of Nevada Reno
Biology Department m/s 314
Reno, NV 89557

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775-784-6188
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775-784-1302