Name: Harvey D. Blankespoor

Birthdate: October 15, 1939

Education:

• B.A. 1963 Westmar College (Le Mars, Iowa)
  
• M.S. 1967 Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)
  
• Ph.D. 1971 Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)
  

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa, 1970-71. General Biology.
  
• Assistant Professor, Trinity Christian College, 1971-72. General Biology.
  
• Assistant Professor of Zoology and Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan, 1972-76. Parasitology.
  
• Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Michigan and Michigan State University, Biological Field Stations, 1975-present. Parasitology.
  
• Associate Professor of Biology, Hope College, 1977-84.
  
• Full Professor of Biology, Hope College, 1984-present.
  

Honors and Awards:

• National Institute of Health, Education, and Welfare. Predoctoral Fellowship (1967-70). $22,000.
  
• Iowa State University Foundation Research Fellowship (1967-68). $4,500.
  
• Thomas McBride Scholarship - summers at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (1965-69). ($500/summer).
  
• Chester A. Herrick Award (Annual Midwest Conference of Parasitologists) Loyola University, 1970. $200.
  
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (Summer 1971). $1,500.
  
• Innovative Fund Award, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts (1/11/73-6/30/74). $650.
  
• Class of 1923 Science and Literary Award for Outstanding Teaching of Undergraduates at the University of Michigan. $1,000.
  
• Hope's Outstanding Professor-Educator Award as voted by the Senior Class of 1980.
  
• Recipient of the Reverend Frederich Garrett and Helen Floor Dekker Endowed Chair. (1988).
  
• Council for the Advance and Support of Education (CASE) 1991 U. S. Professor of the Year: $10,000.
  
• Award for Excellence in Teaching. Shandong University, People's Republic of China (1997).
  
• Honorary Faculty Award. Shandong University, People's Republic of China (1997).
  

Professional Societies:

• American Microscopical Society
  
• American Society of Parasitologists
  
• Australian Society for Parasitology
  
• Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters
  
• Helminthological Society of Washington
  
• Sigma Xi
  

Grants:

• Special Research Assistance Grant, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts (4/1/73-6/30/75). $2,205.
  
• Faculty Research Grant, University of Michigan Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1/1/75-1/31/75). $2,415.
  
• Rockefeller Grant to promote Parasitology at the University of Michigan, especially at the undergraduate level (1974-77). $25,000.
  
• Recipient of NSF Award, Supplement Funding on Effects of Diplostomum on the predator-prey interactions of fish. $11,000, 1983.
  
• Project Director, Schistosome Cycles (NIH project at the University of Michigan with a total budget of $67,557). 1973-74.
  
• Co-Director, Schistosome Cycles Project (annual budget of $105,069-155,000), University of Michigan. 1974-76.
  
• Faculty Advisor for Student-Originated Studies (National Science Foundation) $15,334. Summer of 1980.
  
• Project Director, "Transmission of Schistosoma haematobium in the Gezira, Sudan." The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, $48,000, 1982-1984.
  
• Project Director, "Control of Swimmer's Itch in Michigan." State of Michigan. $150,000. 1985-87.
  
• Project Director, Collaborative Studies on Paragonimiasis in Ecuador. Anonymous Donor, $38,050. 1987-90.
  
• Project Director, Swimmer's Itch Control in Leelanau Co., Michigan. $105,000. 1990-92.
  
• Project Director, Swimmer's Itch Control on Michigan lakes. $126,600. 1992-94.
  
• Project Director, Swimmer's Itch Control on Michigan Lakes. $47,500. 1995-96.
  

Publications:

Blankespoor, H. D.  1967.  Helminths from six species of Iowa bats.
     M.S. Thesis, Iowa State University Library, Ames, Iowa.

Blankespoor, H. D. and M. J. Ulmer.  1970.  Trematodes from six
     species of Iowa bats. Iowa Academy of Science 77:200-206.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1971.  Host-parasite relationships of an avian
     trematode, Plagiorchis noblei Park, 1936.  Dissertation
     Abstracts, Vol. 31, No. 12.

Blankespoor, H. D. and M. J. Ulmer. 1972. Prosthodendrium
     volaticum sp. n. (Trematoda: Lecithodendriidae) from
     two species of Iowa bats.  Proc. Helminthological Society
     of Washington 39(2):224-226.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1973.  Role of Lymnaea reflexa (Say) and
     Lymnaea stagnalis (Say) as first intermediate hosts of
     Plagiorchis noblei Park, 1936.  Malacological Review 6:65-66.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1974.  Flukes and Snails by C. A. Wright (Book 
     Review). Malacological Review 7:165.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1974.  Host-induced variations in Plagiorchis
     noblei Park, 1936 (Plagiorchiidae: Trematoda).  The American
     Midland Naturalist 92(2):415-433.

Blankespoor, H. D. and P. A. Szymusiak.  1974.  Helminths from
     Myotis keenii (Merriam) in eastern Iowa.  Journal
     of Parasitology 60(6):934.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1975.  Host-specificity of Plagiorchis noblei
     Park, 1936 (Plagiorchiidae: Trematoda).  Transactions of the
     American Microscopical Society 94(3):433-434.

Sauer, H. J., B. Gonik and H. D. Blankespoor.  1975.  Snail
     host-specificity of the nonhuman schistosome
     Gigantobilharzia huronensis Najim (1950).
     Malacological Review 8:122 (Abstract).

Blankespoor, H. D.  1976.  Notes on some helminths from Bahamian fishes.
     The Drum and Croaker 16(1):35-38.

Blankespoor, H. D. and H. van der Schalie.  1976.  Attachment and
     penetration of miracidia observed by scanning electron microscopy.
     Science 191:291-293.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1977.  Attachment and penetration of schistosome
     miracidia.  Front Cover of 1977 January issue of BioScience.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1977.  Notes on the biology of Plagiorchis noblei
     Park 1936 (Trematoda: Plagiorchiidae).  Proceedings of
     Helminthological Society of Washington 44(1):44-50.

Ford, J. W. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1977.  Scanning electron microscope of
     the eggs of Schistosoma.  International Journal for Parasitology
     9:141-145.

Guth, D. J., H. D. Blankespoor and J. Cairins, Jr.  1977.  Potentiation of
     zinc stress caused by parasitic infections of snails.  Hydrobiologia
     55(3):226-229.

Osuna, O., G. T. Edds and H. D. Blankespoor.  1977.  Toxic effects of
     aflatoxin B1, in male holstein calves with prior infection by flukes
     (Fasciola hepatica).  American Journal of Veterinary Research
     38(3):341-349.

Siefker, C. M., J. N. Cather and H. D. Blankespoor.  1977.  Tolerance of
     Biomphalaria glabrata embryos to continuous thermal stress.
     Malacological Review 10:31-36.

van der Schalie, H. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1977.  Potential use of solar
     energy for snail control.  The Biologist 59(1):16-24.

Smales, L. R. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1978.  The epidermis and sensory
     organs of Dugesia tigrina (Turbellaria: Tricladida): a
     scanning electron microscope study.  Cell and Tissue Research
     183:35-40.

van der Schalie, H. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1978.  Flukes that affect world
     progress. Ward's Bulletin 17(106):1-3.

Guth, B. D., H. D. Blankespoor, R. L. Reimink and W. C. Johnson.  1979.
     Prevalence of dermatitis-producing schistosomes in natural bird
     populations of lower Michigan. Proceedings of the Helminthological
     Society of Washington 46(1):48-53.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1980.  Answers to 25 of the most frequently asked
     questions about swimmers' itch.  The Michigan Riparian (June):9,23.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1980.  Swimmers' itch in Michigan.  Special publication
     for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (Lansing), 9 pp.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1980.  What you should know about Swimmers' itch.
     Special bulletin, 2 pp.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1981.  Front cover of the July/August issue of
     BioScience.  A strepsiteran, Xenos peckii, between the abdominal
     segments of the paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus.

Gentile, J. M., D. Clark, B. DeRuiter, M. Johnson and H. D. Blankespoor.
     1981.  The activation of promutagens in parasite-infected organisms.
     Environmental Mutagenesis 3:391 (Abstract).

Strohm, B., H. D. Blankespoor and P. Meier.  1981.  Natural infections of
     the dermatitis-producing schistosome Gigantobilharzia huronensis
     Najim, 1950 in passerines in southeastern Michigan.  Proceedings of
     the Helminthological Society of Washington 48(1):80-82.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1982.  Pictorial illustration associated with the
     disease, Schistosomiasis. Medical and Health Annual of the
     Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1982.  Pictorial illustration associated with the
     disease, Schistosomiasis. Livro Do and Ciencia E Technologia.

Blankespoor, H. D., D. Wittrock, J. Aho and G. W. Esch.  1982.
     Host-parasite interface of the vent fluke, Collyriclum faba.
     Zeitschrift für Parasitekunde 68:191-199.

Coy, K. B., H. D. Blankespoor and M. J. Ulmer.  1982.  Recruitment of
     digenetic trematodes using caged snails.  Journal of Parasitology
     68(3):496-500.

Kulesa, M. W., H. D. Blankespoor and K. E. Roney.  1982.  Prevalence of
     avian schistosomes in Physa integra from southwestern Michigan.
     Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 49(1):14-18.

Boss, N. C., T. G. Laman and H. D. Blankespoor.  1984.  Dispersal
     movements of four species of pulmonate and operculate snails
     in Douglas Lake, Michigan.  The Nautilus 98(2):80-83.

Laman, T. G., C. Boss and H. D. Blankespoor.  1984.  Depth distribution
     of seven species of gastropods in Douglas Lake, Michigan.  The
     Nautilus 98(1):20-25.

Laman, T. G., D. L. Daniell and H. D. Blankespoor.  1984.  Role of
     Gyraulus parvus as an intermediate host for avian
     schistosomes.  Proceedings of the Helminthological
     Society of Washington 51:267-269.

Smales, L. R. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1984.  Echinostoma revolutum
     (Froelich, 1802) Looss, 1899 and Isthmiophora melis (Schrank,
     1788) Lühe, 1909 (Echinostomatinae, Digenea):  Scanning electron
     microscopy of the tegumental surfaces.  Journal of Helminthology
     58:187-195.

Babiker, S. M., H. D. Blankespoor, A. Fenwick and A. A. Daffalla.  1985.
     Transmission of Schistosoma haematobium in Northern Gezira,
     Sudan. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and
     Hygiene 88:65-73.

Blankespoor, H. D., S. Cameron and J. Cairins, Jr.  1985.  Resistance of
     pulmonate snail populations to repeated treatments of copper sulfate.
     Environmental Management 9(5):455-458.

Blankespoor, H. D., G. W. Esch and W. C. Johnson.  1985.  Some observations
     on the Biology of Collyriclum faba.  Journal of Parasitology
     71:469-471.

Gentile, J. M., S. Brown, M. Aardema, D. Clark and H. D. Blankespoor. 1985.
     Modified mutagen metabolism in Schistosoma hematobium-infested
     organs.  Archives of Environmental Health 40(1):5-12.

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1986.  Swimmer's itch:  symptoms
     and control. Midwest Aquatic Society Management Letter 6:1
     (Abstract).

Gaff, S., B. Vandewaa, H. Blankespoor and J. Gentile.  1986.  Promutagen
     activation in Schistosoma haematobium-infected hamsters.
     Environmental Mutagenesis 4:330 (Abstract).

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1987.  Swimmer's itch:  an update
     on control. Midwest Aquatic Society Management Letter 7:2 (Abstract)

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1988.  Control of swimmer's itch
     in Michigan: Past, present and future.  The Michigan Riparian (May),
     p. 10, 19.

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1988.  Swimmer's Itch:  A
     Preventive Approach. Lake Line 8: 4-5.

Blankespoor, H. D., S. M. Babiker and C. L. Blankespoor.  1989.
     Influence of temperature on the development of Schistosoma
     haematobium in Bulinus truncatus.  Journal of
     Medical and Applied Malacology 1:123-131.

Vaca, O., Guderian, R. and H. Blankespoor.  1989.  Estudio de un foco
     de Paragonimiasis pulmonar en el Oriente Ecuatoriano.
     Actualidad 5(14):7-11.

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1991.  The control of swimmer's
     itch in Michigan: past, present and future.  Michigan Academician
     24:7-23.

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1993.  Swimmer's Itch.  Special
     Publication.  Hope College.

Blankespoor, G. W., B. Loken, H. D. Blankespoor and R. L. Reimink.  1995.
     Breeding populations of mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, on four
     urbanized lakes in Michigan.  The Canadian Field Naturalist
     108(3):292-296.

Reimink, R. L., J. A. DeGoede and H. D. Blankespoor.  1995.  Efficacy of
     Praziquantel in natural populations of mallards infected with avian
     schistosomes.  Journal of Parasitology 81(6):1027-1029.

Keas, Brian and H. D. Blankespoor.  1997.  The prevalence of cercariae
     from Stagnicola emarginata over 50 years in Northern
     Michigan.  J. Parasitol. 83:536-540.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1997.  Classroom atmosphere:  A personal inventory.
     In:  Inspiring Teaching, ed. J. K. Roth.  Anker Publishing, Inc.
     Bolton, MA, 236 pp.

Blankespoor, H. D.  1997.  Classroom reflections.  In:  Teaching in
     Shandong University, People's Republic of China.  (IN PRESS)

Blankespoor, H. D. and R. L. Reimink.  1998.  An apparatus for
     individually isolating large numbers of snails.  Journal
     of Parasitology 84:165-167.

Gentile, J. M., G. J. Gentile, B. Nannenga, M. Johnson, H. Blankespoor
     and R. Montero. 1998.  Enhanced liver cell mutations in
     trematode-infected Blue Transgenic Mice.  (In preparation)

Montero, R., G. J. Gentile, L. Frederick, J. McMannis, T. Murphey,
     H. Blankespoor and J. M. Gentile.  1998.  Induced expression
     of CYP2A5 in inflamed trematode-infested mouse liver.
     (Submitted to Int. J. Cancer.)

Dykstra, T. and H. D. Blankespoor.  1998.  Population dynamaics of
     Physa crassa and Stagnicola emarginata on
     Crystal Lake (Benzie Co., MI).  Submitted to The Michigan
     Academician.