Department of Animal Science, UC Davis

 

Jerry L. Hedrick, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Biochemistry
Department of Animal Science
1202F Meyer Hall
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

Phone 530-752-3192
Fax 530-752-0175
Email: jlhedrick@ucdavis.edu
Lab website: Hedricklab


 

Program Director, NICHD Training Grant "Fertilization and Early Development", http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/reprobio/;

Program Director, NIGMS Postdoctoral Career Development Program,
"Professors of the Future"
(PROF),
http://prof.ucdavis.edu/

 

Education

B.S.    Iowa State University - Chemistry - 1958
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin - Physiological Chemistry - 1961

Research interests

Structure-function relations of proteins and glycoproteins. Lectins. Proteases. Cellular and molecular biology of fertilization. lab Website

Awards:

Academic Senate Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, UC Davis, 2002.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1971-1972, "Studies on the Biochemistry of Fertilization", Cambridge, England.
Chair of Organizing Committee, 3rd International Symposium on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo-Coats, Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, California, August 27-31, 2000.
Citation Classic by the Institute for Scientific Information, "Size and charge isomer separation and the estimation of molecular weights of proteins. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 126, 155 (1968)." one of the 101 most cited articles of the 1960's in biochemistry and molecular biology.
(E. Garfield, Current Contents 35:4-5, 1979).
Chairman, Gordon Research Conference, "Fertilization and Activation of Development,"
Plymouth, NH, August 17-21, 1987.
Chair of Organizing Committee, 3rd International Symposium on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo-Coats, Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, California, August 27-31, 2000

Graduate Group Membership

  • Cell and Developmental Biology, CDB
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BMB
  • Biophysics, BPH
  • Animal Science