Elizabeth Crockett Assistant Professor phone: 740-593-9470 fax: 740-593-0300 Office: Wilson West 103 Email: crockett@ohio.edu     Other URLs: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~crockett/

 Research Summary:
      I am broadly interested in adaptational physiology and biochemistry.  My research centers on the influence
 of physical environments (temperature and salinity) on metabolic processes and membrane
 properties/function.  I am interested in mechanism and more specifically, what physiological and biochemical
 mechanisms enable animals to live in physically challenging environments.  My current research includes two
 themes that explore the temperature biology of eurytherms.  First, I am examining biochemical factors
 responsible for elevated oxidative capacities in cold-acclimated ectotherms.  Second, in collaboration with
 R.P. Hassett (also in Biological Sciences), we are elucidating cholesterol’s roles as key nutrient and
 membrane stabilizer in zooplankton during temperature variation.

 Selected References:
 ·       Crockett, E.L., R.L. Londraville, E.E. Wilkes, and M.C. Popesco. 1999. Enzymatic capacities for b-oxidation
 of fatty fuels are low in the gill of teleost fishes despite the presence of fatty acid-binding protein. J. Exp. Zool.
 284: 276-285.

 ·       Crockett, E.L. 1999. Lipid restructuring does not contribute to elevated activities of Na+/K+-ATPase in
 basolateral membranes from the gill of seawater-acclimated eel (Anguilla rostrata). J. Exp. Biol. 202:
 2385-2392.

 ·       Gibbs, A.G. and E.L. Crockett. 1998. The biology of lipids: integrative and comparative aspects. Am. Zool.
 38: 265-267.

 ·       Crockett, E.L. 1998. Cholesterol function in plasma membranes from ectotherms: Membrane-specific roles
 in adaptation to temperature. Am. Zool. 38: 291-304.

 ·       Crockett, E.L. and J.R. Hazel. 1997. Cholesterol affects physical properties and (Na+, K+)-ATPase in
 basolateral membranes of renal and intestinal epithelia from thermally acclimated rainbow trout.  J. of
 Comparative Physiology B 167:344-351.