Dr. Glenn J. Tattersall

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Brock University
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2006

Mailing Address

Department of Biological Sciences
500 Glenridge Avenue
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S3A1
Canada

Contact Information

Phone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 4815
Fax: (905) 688-1855
gtatters@brocku.ca
http://www.brocku.ca/researchers/glenn_tattersall/

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Zoology, Physiology, 1998.
B.Sc., University of Guelph, 1994.

Expertise and Research Interests

Thermoregulation
Stress Physiology
Respiratory Physiology
Integrative Physiology
Hypoxia Tolerance
Hypothermia
Behavioural Thermoregulation
Autonomic Regulation of Body Temperature

Other Expertise

Physiology and Metabolism
Environmental Physiology
Herpetology
Primates and Mammals
Ecophysiology
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology

Future Research

Integrating Physiological Systems
Interactions between Respiratory Physiology and Metabolisms
Analysis of Constraints and Trade-offs between Metabolism, Breathing, and Body Temperature

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Animal Physiology or Morphology, Biological Sciences, Herpetology, Hypoxia, Mammalogy, Metabolic Diseases, Physiology, Primatology, Thermoregulation, Vertebrate Physiology, Zoology.

Additional Terms:

Hibernation, Hypometabolism, Hypothermia, Hypoxia, Hypoxia-Induced Hypothermia, Metabolic Depression, Overwintering.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Functional, Functional, Functional)
Japanese: (Basic, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Physiological Society
Canadian Society of Zoologists
Society for Experimental Biology

Honors and Awards

2008-2008, Bob Boutilier Young Investigator Award, Canadian Society of Zoologists
2003-2007, Premier's Research Excellence Award, Ontario Government, Brock University, Physiology
2001-2001, Howard Alper Postdoctoral Prize, NSERC, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Most Outstanding Post-Doctoral Fellow in Canada
2001-2002, Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSERC, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Zoology
1996-1996, George Holeton Award, Canadian Society of Zoologists, University of Cambridge, Zoology
1994-1998, Centennial Scholarship, NSERC 1967, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Zoophysiology

Previous Positions

2002-2006, Assistant Professor, Brock University, College of Science
2001-2002, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Science, Zoology
1999-2000, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University, Biology
1999-1999, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Physiology
1998-1998, Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Churchill College, Zoology

Publications

  • de Velasco JB, Tattersall GJ (Sep 2008) The influence of hypoxia on the thermal sensitivity of skin colouration in the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps., Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 178 (7), 867-75 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Ultsch GR (May 2008) Physiological ecology of aquatic overwintering in ranid frogs., Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 83 (2), 119-40 Abstract
  • Scott GR, Cadena V, Tattersall GJ, Milsom WK (Apr 2008) Body temperature depression and peripheral heat loss accompany the metabolic and ventilatory responses to hypoxia in low and high altitude birds., The Journal of experimental biology, 211 (Pt 8), 1326-35 Abstract
  • Hodges MR, Tattersall GJ, Harris MB, McEvoy SD, Richerson DN, Deneris ES, Johnson RL, Chen ZF, Richerson GB (Mar 2008) Defects in breathing and thermoregulation in mice with near-complete absence of central serotonin neurons., The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 28 (10), 2495-505 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Cadena V, Skinner MC (Nov 2006) Respiratory cooling and thermoregulatory coupling in reptiles., Respiratory physiology & neurobiology, 154 (1-2), 302-18 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Eterovick PC, de Andrade DV (Apr 2006) Tribute to R. G. Boutilier: skin colour and body temperature changes in basking Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Bokermann 1956)., The Journal of experimental biology, 209 (Pt 7), 1185-96 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, de Andrade DV, Brito SP, Abe AS, Milsom WK (Feb 2006) Regulation of ventilation in the caiman (Caiman latirostris): effects of inspired CO2 on pulmonary and upper airway chemoreceptors., Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 176 (2), 125-38 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Gerlach RM (Sep 2005) Hypoxia progressively lowers thermal gaping thresholds in bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps., The Journal of experimental biology, 208 (Pt 17), 3321-30 Abstract
  • Milsom WK, Abe AS, Andrade DV, Tattersall GJ (Dec 2004) Evolutionary trends in airway CO2/H+ chemoreception., Respiratory physiology & neurobiology, 144 (2-3), 191-202 Abstract
  • de Andrade DV, Tattersall GJ, Brito SP, Soncini R, Branco LG, Glass ML, Abe AS, Milsom WK (May 2004) The ventilatory response to environmental hypercarbia in the South American rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus., Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 174 (4), 281-91 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Milsom WK, Abe AS, Brito SP, Andrade DV, The thermogenesis of digestion in rattlesnakes, The Journal of Experimental Biology, 207(Pt 4), 579-85, Feb 2004 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Milsom WK (Aug 2003) Hypothermia-induced respiratory arrest and recovery in neonatal rats., Respiratory physiology & neurobiology, 137 (1), 29-40 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Milsom WK, Transient peripheral warming accompanies the hypoxic metabolic response in the golden-mantled ground squirrel, The Journal of Experimental Biology, 206(Pt 1), 33-42, Jan 2003 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Blank JL, Wood SC (Jan 2002) Ventilatory and metabolic responses to hypoxia in the smallest simian primate, the pygmy marmoset., Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 92 (1), 202-10 Abstract
  • Sheafor EA, Wood SC, Tattersall GJ (Dec 2000) The effect of graded hypoxia on the metabolic rate and buccal activity of a lungless salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)., The Journal of experimental biology, 203 (Pt 24), 3785-93 Abstract
  • St-Pierre J, Tattersall GJ, Boutilier RG, Metabolic depression and enhanced O(2) affinity of mitochondria in hypoxic hypometabolism, American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology., 279(4), R1205-14, Oct 2000 Abstract
  • Branco LG, Steiner AA, Tattersall GJ, Wood SC, Role of adenosine in the hypoxia-induced hypothermia of toads, American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology., 279(1), R196-201, Jul 2000 Abstract
  • Boutilier RG, Tattersall GJ, Donohoe PH, Metabolic consequences of behavioural hypothermia and oxygen detection in submerged overwintering frogs, Zoology: Analysis of Complex Systems, 102(2-3), 111-119, 2000
  • Tattersall GJ, Boutilier RG, Constant set points for pH and P(CO2) in cold-submerged skin-breathing frogs, Respiration Physiology, 118(1), 49-59, October 1999 Abstract
  • Tattersall, GJ and Boutilier, RG, Behavioural oxyregulation by cold-submerged frogs in heterogeneous oxygen environments, Canadian Journal of Zoology, 77(6), 843-850, 01 Jun 1999
  • Tattersall, GJ and Boutilier, RG, Does behavioural hypothermia promote exercise recovery in cold-submerged frogs?, Journal of Experimental Biology, 202(5), 609-622, 03 Feb 1999
  • Tattersall GJ, Boutilier RG, Balancing hypoxia and hypothermia in cold-submerged frogs, Journal of Experimental Biology, 200(Pt 6), 1031-8, March 1997 Abstract
  • Boutilier RG, Donohoe PH, Tattersall GJ, West TG, Hypometabolic homeostasis in overwintering aquatic amphibians, Journal of Experimental Biology, 200(Pt 2), 387-400, January 1997 Abstract
  • Tattersall GJ, Wright PA (Apr 1996) The effects of ambient pH on nitrogen excretion in early life stages of the American toad (Bufo americanus)., Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Physiology, 113 (4), 369-74 Abstract

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