Contents

• Biographical Information
• Current Projects
• Additional Links
• Contact Information

Biographical Information

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

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Current Projects

Recent Publications

Mehlen, P., Hickey, E., Weber, L.A., and Arrigo, A.P. Large unphosphorylated aggregates as the active form
of hsp27 which controls intracellular reactive oxygen species and glutathione levels and generates
a protection against TNFalpha in NIH-3T3-ras cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun 241:
187-192 (1997)

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 (1997)

Piotrowicz, R.S., Hickey, E., Levin, E.G.Heat Shock protein 27 kDa expression and phosphorylation regulates
endothelial cell migration. FASEB J. 12: 1481-1490 (1998)

Jody L Martin, Lee Weber, Eileen Hickey, Wolfgang H Dillmann, Ruben Mestril: Influence of Phosphorylation and Oligomerization on the Protective Role of the Small Heat Shock Protein 27 in Rat Adult Cardiomyocytes. Gene Expression 7:349-355 (1999)

Hedges, J.C., Dechert, M.A., Yamboliev, I.A., Martin, J.L., Hickey, E., Weber, L.A., and Gerthoffer, W.T. A Role for P38-MAPK/HSP27 Pathway in Smooth Muscle Cell Migration Journal Biol Chem 274: 24211- 24219 (1999)

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)

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Additional Links

Undergraduate Advising - http://unr.edu/homepage/ehickey/ehwwebwork.html

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Contact Information

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

Electronic mail address
hickey@unr.edu

Web address
http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~bioweb/hickey.html

Office phone
775-784-4483

FAX number
775-784-1302

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