Yvette M Huet

Huet
Dr. Huet is a Professor of  Kinesiology, the Director for the UNC Charlotte ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and the UNC Charlotte Principal Investigator on the NSF AGEP-NC Alliance grant.   Dr. Huet earned her B.S. in Human Biology: Microbiology from the University of Kansas; her Ph.D. (with Honors) in physiology from the University of Kansas Medical Center; and had a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Monsanto Company in Missouri. Her honors include a National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities. Dr. Huet joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at UNC Charlotte in 1991 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2005. In 2013, Dr. Huet moved to the Department of Kinesiology.  She has served in many other leadership roles at UNC Charlotte, including as Coordinator, Faculty Development, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Interim Chair, Kinesiology.
Education:
  • Ph.D. Physiology (with Honors), University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas (1989)
  • B.A. Human Biology; Microbiology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1984)
Teaching Specialty:
  • Physiology, Endocrinology, Reproduction
  • Spring 2016  HSRD 8200 Seminar
Research Interest:
Dr. Yvette Huet’s research focuses on:
  • understanding the role of sex steroids (primarily estrogen) in normal physiology and adult diseases
  • the effects of neonatal exposure to environmental toxicants on development and adult disease.

The goals of the research are

  • to gain understandings of these processes and thus allow for the development of methods to prevent or treat diseases
  • determine the effects of environmental estrogens both on early pregnancy and in adult diseases.
 Dr. Huet currently collaborates with Drs. Howden, Arthur, and Marino, and Clinical Asst. Professor Brian Ring in Kinesiology and Dr. Steuerwald at CMC.

Awards & Honors

  • Kansas State Scholar, September 1980 to May 1984.
  • Mid-American Universities Association Teaching Assistantship, September 1985 to May 1986
  • National Science Foundation Minority Graduate Fellowship, June 1986 to May 1988
  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities, June 1988 to May 1989
  • New Investigator Semi-Finalist, Society for the Study of Reproduction, 1989.
  • McNair Outstanding Mentor Award, UNCC, 1996, 1998
  • UNC Charlotte Woman of the Year, 2003-2004
  • Outstanding Preceptor, 2004,2005 UNC Charlotte CMSTE Pre-College Internship Program
  • Organizing Committee, Conference for Ford Foundation Fellows, National Academy of Sciences.  November, 1991, 1992, 2005, 2006 and 2014.  Washington, D.C.
  • Co-chair, Organizing Committee, Conference for Ford Foundation Fellows, National Academy of Sciences.  October, 1992.  Irvine, CA. and October, 2006.  Washington DC
  • Advisory Board, “The Two-Body Problem: An Evaluation of University Partner Accommodation Policies with Implications for Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion of STEM Women,” PAID ADVANCE program Washington State University 2014
  • External Reviewer, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia for Proposed Health Services PhD Program at George Mason University, September, 2014
  • 2014 Biennial Senior Ford Fellows Conference , Co-Chair – September, 2014
  • UNC Charlotte Latino Student Services: Latino Graduation Ceremony, Keynote Speaker, 2014 and 2016

Community Involvement

  • Regional Liaison, Ford Foundation Fellows
  • Member, Advisory Board of Mecklenburg Area Partnership for Primary Care Research (MAPPR) 2006- 2013
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg ISEF-Affiliated Science Fair, Scientific Review Committee, 1992-1993. 2008-2012  Chair, 2010-present

Selected Publications:

  1. *Rettew JA, Huet YM, Marriott I.  (2009) Estrogens augment cell surface TLR4 expression on murine macrophages and regulate sepsis susceptibility in vivo.  Endocrinology. Aug;150(8):3877-84. Epub 2009 Apr 30.
  2. *Somayaji SN, Huet YM, Gruber HE, Hudson MC.  (2010) UV-killed Staphylococcus aureus enhances adhesion and differentiation of osteoblasts on bone-associated biomaterials.  J Biomed Mater Res A. 2010 Nov;95(2):574-9.
  3. *Ellefson WM, Lakner AM, Hamilton A, McKillop IH, Bonkovsky HL, Steuerwald NM, Huet YM, Schrum LW. (2011) Neonatal androgenization exacerbates alcohol-induced liver injury in adult rats, an effect abrogated by estrogen.  PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e29463. Epub 2011 Dec 20.
  4. Buch K, Huet Y, Rorrer A & Roberson L (2011)  Removing the Barriers to Full Professor: A Mentoring Program for Associate Professors, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 43:6, 38-45
  5. Yan S, Huet Y.  (2011)  Managing a pending IBC approval. Communicate with the PI.  Lab Anim. Sep 21;40(10):295-6. doi: 10.1038/laban1011-295b.
  6. Williams, CD, Huet, Y, and Airey, D. (2014) Response to Protocol Review Scenario: Inappropriate animal housing. Lab animal 43 (5), 160-160
  7. Gill KF*, Arthur ST, Swaine I*, Devereux GR,* Huet YM, Wikstrom E, Cordova ML, Howden R. (2014) Intensity dependent reductions in resting blood pressure following short-term isometric exercise training. J Sports Sci. 2015;33(6):616-21PMID:25277169
  8. Noone, J., Blanchette, C.M., Huet, Y., Howden, R., Saunders, W.B., Langford, D.  (2014) Health Outcomes Associated With The Use Of Prohormone Nutritional Supplements Value in Health 17(3):A166. DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2014.03.965
  9. Lawrence, M.M*., Cooley,I.D*, Huet, Y.M., Arthur, S.T. and Howden, R. (2015) Factors influencing isometric exercise training-induced reductions in resting blood pressure. Scand J Med Sci Sports Apr;25(2):131-42  PMID: 24750330
  10. Van Doren BA*, Noone J, Odum SM, Huet YM (2015) Serious Post-Operative Infections Increase Resource Utilization Length of Stay and InPatient Mortality in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Brain Tumor Resection Value Health. 2015 Nov;18(7):A430. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.1023. Epub 2015 Oct 20.
  11. Gill KF*, Arthur ST, Swaine I*, Devereux GR*, Huet YM, Wikstrom E, Cordova ML, Howden R. (2015) Intensity-dependent reductions in resting blood pressure following short-term isometric exercise training. J Sports Sci. 2015;33(6):616-21. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2014.953979. Epub 2014 Oct 3.
  12. Everhardt Queen, A,* Moerdyk-Schauwecker, M, McKee, LM*, Leamy, LJ, . Huet, YM (2016) Differential Expression  of  Inflammatory Cytokines and Stress Genes in Male and Female Mice in Response to a Lipopolysaccharide Challenge PLoS One. 2016; 11(4): e0152289. Published online 2016 April 27. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152289
  13. Williams, CD, and Huet, YM. “Response to Protocol Review Scenario: If it’s not recorded, it didn’t occur.” Lab Animal, vol. 46, no. 9, 2017, p. 338.
  14. Gumpertz, M, Brent, R, Campbell, CD, Grasso, M, Huet, YM, Schimmel, K. Institutional Transformation Model to Increase Minority STEM Doctoral Student Success. 2019 CoNECD – The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Paper ID #24814
  15. Yan, S., Williams, C. & Huet, Y. On the reproducibility of methods or findings. Lab Anim 49, 29 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-019-0461-0