Curriculum Vitae
Stacey Hettes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Wofford College

Address: Department of Biology
429 N. Church St
Milliken Sci. W203A
Spartanburg, SC 29303

Email: hettessr@wofford.edu

Phone: (864) 597-4659 (work)
(864) 591-3524 (home)

Born: March 16, 1974, Scranton, Pennsylvania

Educational Experience

1996- 2003 University of California, Riverside: Graduate Student- Neuroscience Program, Dept. of Cell biology and Neuroscience

1992- 1996 King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: Biology Major

2003 Ph.D. University of California Riverside: Neuroscience

1996 B.S. King's College: Biology

Grants and Awards

2004- 2005, South Carolina Space Grant Consortium (Designated by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant ($44,959.40)

2004, Faculty Summer Research Award, Wofford College ($4,000)

2001-2002 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Riverside

1996-1998 Eugene Rota Cobles Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

1996 Summa Cum Laude, King's College

Society Memberships

The Aerospace Medical Association, 2004-present

The Society for Neuroscience; 1996-present

Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior; 2000-present

Society for Undergraduate Neuroscience, 2003-present

Sigma Xi; 1998-present

Alpha Epsilon Delta, Pre-medical Honor Society, 1994- present

Delta Epsilon Sigma, Honor Society of Catholic Colleges; 1993- present

The St. Thomas Aquinas Society, King's College Honor Society, 1993- present

2005- Science Instructor, Citizen Scholar's Camp, Wofford College

2004-present Faculty Advisor, bbb, Biology Honor Society

2004-present Faculty Advisory Committiee for Information Technology, Wofford College

2000-2002 Graduate Student Representative to the Neuroscience Graduate Program Committee, UC, Riverside

1999- 2001 Graduate Student Representative for the Graduate Admissions Committee of the Dept. Cell Biol. and NRSC, UC Riverside

1998- If I Only Had a Brain- Introducing Neuroscience to Children, a program of the Riverside Children's Museum.

Teaching Experience (F= Fall Semester, S= Spring Semester, W= January Interim)

Assistant Professor of Biology: 2003- Present, Wofford College

2003 (F), 2004 (F) Neurobiology (Lab Course)
2003 (F) , 2004 (F) Introduction to Research (Lab Course)
2004 (S), Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology (Lab Course)
2004 (S), Specials Topics in Neuroscience (team taught)
2004 (F), Advanced Topics in Research (Lab Course)
2004 (F), Advanced Topics in Research (Lab Course)
2004 (W), Independant Research
2005 (W), Functional Beauty, The Art and Craft of Pottery

Teaching Assistant:

2002- Developmental Neurobiology,
1999, 2000, 2002, 2003- Experimental Neuroscience Lab,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001- Introduction to Neuroscience,
1996-2003 Independent instruction of undergraduates in research and laboratory skills

J. McCallister; K. Kavanagh; T. Stinnett; A. Keaton; G.R. Davis, Jr; S.R. Hettes, (2005) Lateral Hypothalamic Injections of the Glutamate Receptor Antagonist, D-AP5, decrease Food Intake in Rats Under Simulated Microgravity, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC

S.R. Hettes and G.R. Davis, Jr (2005) Lateral hypothalamic (LH) injection of D-AP5 suppresses behavior indicative of sensory specific satiety. [Abstract] Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior's Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA

K.S. Laser, E.B. Saine, T.S. Stinnett, A.B. Yanke, S.R. Hettes (2005) Suppression of Feeding by the Glutamate Receptor Antagonist DAP-5 in the Sensory Specific Satiety Model of Overeating in Rats. [Abstract] Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 65,

J.M. Henry, G.R. Davis, Jr., S.R. Hettes (2005) Evidence Suggesting the Neurotransmitter Glutamate Acts at Selective Receptor Subtypes to Elicit Feeding During Sensory Specific Satiety, a Model of Overeating, [Abstract] Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 65,

Ross, L.T., Thomas, G.N., Benson, M.E., Ferguson, J.M., Forest, M.E., Trout, K.W., Whelan, S.P., Hettes, S.R. (2004) Suppression of Feeding by the Opiate Antagonist, Naloxone, is Diet Dependent. [Abstract] Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science, 64, 131

Hettes, S.R., Gonzaga, W.J.L., Heyming, T.W., Perez, S., Wolfsohn, S.D, and Stanley, B.G. (2003) Dual roles in feeding for AMPA/kainate receptors: receptor activation or inactivation within distinct hypothalamic regions elicits feeding behavior. Brain Research, 992, 167-178.

Hettes, S.R., & Stanley, B.G. (2002). Activation of kainate receptors in the lateral hypothalamus with the new agonist , ATPA, specifically increases feeding behavior. [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 28, 869.13

Hettes, S.R., Nguyen, J.K., Chen, E., & Stanley, B.G. (2001). Evidence that lateral hypothalamic kainate receptor stimulation elicits feeding in rats [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 27, 246.7

Hettes, S.R., Heyming, T.W., Nguyen, J., & Stanley, B.G. (2000). GYKI 52466 suppresses feeding that is elicited by lateral hypothalamic injection of AMPA [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26, 991.

Hettes, S.R., Gonzaga, W.J.L., Heyming, T.W., & Stanley, B.G. (1999). Feeding elicited by lateral hypothalamic injection of AMPA or kainic acid is suppressed by CNQX [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 1884.

Hettes, S.R., Gonzaga, W.J.L., Perez, S.D., Wolfsohn, S.D., & Stanley, B.G. (1998). Differential localization of AMPA- and AMPA/KA receptor antagonist-elicited feeding in the hypothalamus of satiated rats [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 943

Hettes, S.R., Perez, S.D., & Stanley, B.G. (1997). Feeding is elicited by AMPA or AMPA antagonists micro-injected into the lateral hypothalamus of satiated rats [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23, 252

Curriculum Vitae Stacey Hettes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Wofford College

Curriculum Vitae
Stacey Hettes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Wofford College