Heidi G. Elmendorf
Education:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Biology
Microbiology and Immunology
1988
1993
A.B.
Ph.D.
Professional Experience:
2008-2010
Co-director, Biology of Parasitism course, MBL, Woods Hole, MA
2007-2010
Director of Science Planning for the College, Georgetown University
2005Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Georgetown University
1999-2005
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgetown University
1996-1999
Post-doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Theodore Nash, Section of
Gastrointestinal Parasites, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH
1993-1996
Instructor in Biology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.
1989-1993
Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Kasturi Haldar, Ph.D., Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical Center.
Honors and Appointments:
President, Georgetown Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2009-present
Georgetown College Academic Council Faculty Excellence Award, 2011
Georgetown Commitment to Diversity Faculty Award, 2009
Member of the Education Board, American Society for Cell Biology 2008-2010
Member of the Industry Advisory Committee of the DC Public Schools 2006-2009
Member PTHE Study Section, NIH 2006-2008
Co-founder and Leader of the Biology Scholars Program 2005-2009
Director of K-12 outreach programs for the Biology Department at Georgetown 2004-present
Carnegie Visiting Scholar, 2006
Dorothy Brown Award in Teaching, Georgetown University, 2005
Carnegie Teaching and Learning Scholar, 2003-2004
Dean’s Award in Teaching, Georgetown University, 2002
Teaching, Learning and Technology Fellow, Georgetown University, 2001
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1989-1993
Magna Cum Laude, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University, 1988
Membership:
American Society for Cell Biology
American Society for Microbiology
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Selected Publications:
Haldar, K, Uyetake, L, Ghori, N, Elmendorf, HG and Li, W-l (1991) The accumulation and
metabolism of a fluorescent ceramide derivative in Plasmodium falciparum-infected
erythrocytes. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 49: 143-156.
Elmendorf, HG, Bangs, JD, and Haldar, K. (1992) Synthesis and secretion of proteins by
released malarial parasites. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 52: 215-230.
Elmendorf, HG and Haldar, K. (1993) Identification and Localization of ERD2 in the malaria
parasite Plasmodium falciparum: separation from sites of sphingomyelin synthesis and
implications for organization of the Golgi. EMBO J., 12: 4763-4773.
Elmendorf, HG, and Haldar, K.(1993) Secretory Transport in Plasmodium. Parasitol Today, 9:
98-102.
Elmendorf, HG, and Haldar, K. (1994) Plasmodium falciparum exports the Golgi marker
sphingomyelin synthase into a tubovesicular network in the cytoplasm of mature
erythrocytes.J. Cell Biol., 124: 449-462.
Das, A., Elmendorf, HG, Li, W-l, and Haldar, K. (1994) Biosynthesis, export and processing of
a 45 kDa protein detected in membrane clefts of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium
falciparum. Biochem. J., 302: 487-496.
Haldar, K, Elmendorf, HG, Das, A., Li, W-l, Ferguson, DJP, and Elford, BC (1995) In vitro
Secretory Assays with Erythrocyte-Free Malaria Parasites, in Microbes as Tools for Cell
Biology, Methods in Cell Biology, vol. 45., edited by DG Russell (Academic Press: New
York), p. 222-246.
Haldar, K, Elmendorf, HG, Das, A, Crary, JL, Li, W-l, Uyetake, L, and Lauer, S (1995) The
Golgi Complex in Plasmodium falciparum: Its Implications for a Tubovesicular Network in the
Infected-Erythrocyte Cytoplasm and Secretory Export of Parasite Proteins, in Molecular
Approaches to Parasitology, edited by J.C. Boothroyd and R. Komuniecki (Wiley-Liss, Inc:
New York), pp. 371-398.
Van Wye, J, Ghori, N, Webster, P, Mitschler, RR, Elmendorf, HG, and Haldar, K (1996)
Identification and localization of rab6, separation of rab6 from ERD2 and implications for an
'unstacked' Golgi, in Plasmodium falciparum. Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 83: 107-120.
Lustig, KD, Kroll, K, Sun, E, Ramos, R, Elmendorf, H, and Kirschner, MW (1996) A Xenopus
nodal-related gene that acts in synergy with noggin to induce complete secondary axis and
notochord formation. Development. 122: 3275-3282.
Elmendorf, HG, Singer, SM, and Nash, TE. (2000) Targeting of Proteins to the Nuclei in
Giardia lamblia, Mol. Biochem. Parasit. 106:315-319.
Elmendorf, HG, Singer, SM, and Nash, TE. (2001) The Abundance of Naturally Occurring
Antisense Transcripts in Giardia lamblia. Nucleic Acids Research 29:4674-83.
Elmendorf, HG, Singer, SM, Pierce, J, Cowan, J and Nash, TE. (2001) Initiator and Upstream
Elements in the Alpha-2 Tubulin Promoter of Giardia lamblia, Mol. Biochem. Parasit.
113:157-169.
Sanchez, LB, Elmendorf, HG, Nash, TE, and Müller, M. (2001) NAD(P)H:menadione
oxidoreductase of the amitochondriate eukaryote Giardia lamblia: a simpler homologue of
the vertebrate enzyme, Microbiology 147:561-570.
Singer, SM, Elmendorf, HG, Conrad, JT, and Nash, TE. (2001) Biological Selection of Variant
Specific Surface Proteins in Giardia lamblia, J. Infect. Dis. 183:119-124.
Farzad, M, Griesbach, R, Hammond, J, Weiss, MR, and Elmendorf, HG (2003) Differential
expression of three key anthocyanin biosynthetic genes in a color-changing flower, Viola
cornuta cv. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Plant Science. 165:1333-1342.
Farzad, M, Soria, D, Altura, M, Hamilton, M, Weiss, MR, and Elmendorf, HG. (2005) Evolution
of the chalcone synthase gene family in Viola cornuta and evidence for positive selection of
the expressed copy. Plant Science. 168 (4):1127-1134.
Elmendorf, HG, Dawson, SC, and McCaffery, JM. (2003) The Cytoskeleton of Giardia lamblia.
Int. J. Parasitol. 33:3-28.
Elmendorf, HG, Rohrer, SC, Khoury, RS, Bouttenot, RE, Nash, TE. (2005) Examination of a
Novel Head-Stalk Protein Family in Giardia lamblia Characterized by the Pairing of Ankyrin
Repeats and Coiled-Coil Domains. International Journal for Parasitology. 35(9):1001-11.
Hausmann, S, Altura, MA, Witmer, M, Singer, SM, Elmendorf, HG, and Shuman, S. (2005)
Yeast-like mRNA capping apparatus in Giardia lamblia. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
280(13):12077-86.
Teodorovic, S, Walls, C, and Elmendorf, HG. (2007) Bidirectional transcription is an inherent
feature of Giardia lamblia promoters and contributes to an abundance of sterile antisense
transcripts throughout the genome. Nucleic Acids Res. 35:2544-53.
Teodorovic, S, Braverman, JM, and Elmendorf, HG. (2007) Unusually low levels of genetic
variation in Giardia lamblia populations are likely a consequence of bottleneck event(s).
Eukaryotic Cell. 6:1421-1430.
Morrison HG, McArthur AG, Gillin FD, Aley SB, Adam RD, Olsen GJ, Best AA, Cande WZ,
Chen F, Cipriano MJ, Davids BJ, Dawson SC, Elmendorf HG, Hehl AB, Holder ME, Huse
SM, Kim UU, Lasek-Nesselquist E, Manning G, Nigam A, Nixon JE, Palm D, Passamaneck
NE, Prabhu A, Reich CI, Reiner DS, Samuelson J, Svard SG, Sogin ML. (2007) Genomic
minimalism in the early diverging intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia. Science. 317:19211926.
Elmendorf, HG, Srivastava, S, Hayes, R, and Johnson, P, (2010) A post-genomics analysis
and comparison of the cytoskeletons of two early-diverging eukaryotes, Giardia lamblia and
Trichomonas vaginalis. Book chapter in The Anaerobic Protists, ed. G. Clark, R. Adam, P.
Johnson.