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E-mail:
heilmann@bnl.gov
Position:
Visiting Scientist (1997 - 1999)
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Degrees:
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Ph.D. (2000) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Thesis: The metabolism of phosphoinositides in a red alga
and higher plants during responses to abiotic stress
- Biology-Diploma
(1996) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Thesis:
The metabolism of mannose in the thermoacidophilic red alga
Galdieria sulphuraria: purification and characterization
of key enzymes
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Projects:
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Other
Research Experience:
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Research Associate with Dr. J. Shanklin, Biology Department,
Brookhaven National Laboratory (July 2001– present)
- Research
Associate with Dr. E. Davies, Department of Botany, North
Carolina State University (April 2000 – June 2001) |
Identification of mRNA in polysomes that is differentially
translated during gravistimulation of maize plants; Changes
in phosphoinositide metabolism and InsP3
in wound-stimulated tomato plants
- Award
of a DAAD scholarship HSPIII (1996) for Ph.D. thesis research
in the United States (work with Dr. W.F. Boss, Department
of Botany, North Carolina State University, January 1997
- September 1999), financed by the German Federal Ministry
of Education, Science, Research and Technology
- Research
Associate with Dr. W. Gross, Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie
und Mikrobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin (April
1996 – December 1996) | Molecular analysis
of phylogenetic relationships among thermo-acidophilic red
algae
- Research
Assistant with Dr. C. Schnarrenberger, Institut für
Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie, Freie Universität
Berlin (January 1995 – March 1996) | Investigation of
metabolic pathways involved in the utilization of carbohydrates,
polyalcohols, and aminoacids by Cyanidiaceae (includes Diploma
Thesis Research, March 1995 – December 1995)
- Research
Assistant with Dr. R. Seifert, Institut für Pharmakologie,
Freie Universität Berlin (January 1994 – April
1994) | Pharmacological screens for effectors of plasma
membrane G-proteins in bovine retinae and HL-60 cells
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Publications:
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Gross W, Boss WF (2001) Plasma membrane
phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate levels decrease with
time in culture. Plant Physiol 126: 1507-1518
- Perera
IY, Heilmann I, Chang SC, Boss WF, Kaufman PB (2001)
A role for inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in gravitropic signaling
and the retention of cold-perceived gravistimulation of
oat shoot pulvini. Plant Physiol 125: 1499-1507
- Heilmann
I, Stevenson-Paulik J, Perera IY (2000) Plant PtdIns
3-kinase goes nuclear. Plant Cell 12: 1511-1512
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Stevenson JM, Boss WF (2000) Sense and
sensibility: inositol phospholipids as mediators of abiotic
stress responses. In Plant tolerance to abiotic stresses
in agriculture: role of genetic engineering (Cherry
JH, Locy RD, Rychter A, Eds.) pp 289-296
- Stevenson
JM, Perera IY, Heilmann I, Persson S, Boss WF (2000)
Inositol signaling and plant growth. Trends Plant Sci 5:
252-258
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Gross W, Boss WF (1999) Changes in phosphoinositide
metabolism with days in culture affect signal transduction
pathways in Galdieria sulphuraria. Plant Physiol
119: 1331-1339
- Perera
IY, Heilmann I, Boss WF (1999) Transient and sustained
increases in inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate precede the differential
growth response in gravistimulated maize pulvini. Proc Natl
Acad Sci USA 96: 5838-5843
- Heilmann
I, Perera IY, Stevenson JM, Ransom WD, Gross W, WF Boss
(1998) Inositol lipid signaling: What can we learn from
plants? Advances in Plant Lipid Research (Sanchez
J, Cerda-Olmedo E, Martinez-Force E, Eds.) pp 394-397
- Heilmann
I, Schnarrenberger C, Gross W (1997) Mannose metabolizing
enzymes from the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria.
Phytochem 45: 903-906
- Klinker
JF, Hagelüken A, Grünbaum L, Heilmann I,
Nürnberg B, Harhammar R, Offermanns St, Ervens J, Wenzel-Seifert
K, Müller T, Seifert R (1994) Mastoparan may activate
GTP hydrolysis by Gi-proteins in HL-60 membranes
indirectly through interaction with nucleoside diphosphate
kinase. Biochem J 304: 377-383
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