James Hicks, Ph.D.

Professor and Editor-in-Chief
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

Phone (949) 824-9626
E-mail: jhicks@uci.edu

Dr. Hicks' research, funded by the National Science Foundation, studies the cardiopulmonary system of air-breathing vertebrates. Specifically, research efforts are divided among five areas; understanding the mechanism(s), regulation and functional significance of intracardiac shunting in “lower vertebrates”, investigating the factors that determine the cardiopulmonary and acid-base response to elevated metabolism in “lower vertebrates”, investigating the ontogeny of cardiovascular regulation in reptiles, studying acclimatization to hypoxia and examining the effects of gravity on the vertebrate cardiovascular system. He has published more than 80 scientific research papers, including ones in the leading journals Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and Nature. His laboratory provides a unique evolutionary perspective into circulation and respiration and seeks to discover not only differences among organisms, but the unifying principles shared by diverse organisms. Dr. Hicks is currently the Chair of the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society. In January of 2002, Dr. Hicks was named Editor-in-Chief of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, a leading scientific peer-review journal that publishes current research on comparative biology of animals. Published by the University of Chicago Press since 1928, the journal’s content focuses on ecological and evolutionary approaches to biochemical and physiological mechanisms in animals.

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