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Assistant professor

University affiliation

• College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Department of Biology and Wildlife
• Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: djlarson@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-2693

Media contact

University Relations

• Email: uaf-news@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Biology
• Biomedicine and health
• Ecology

Â鶹¹ÙÍø interests/biography

Larson focuses on how animals and their parasites cope with environmental changes. Â鶹¹ÙÍøes how parasites overwinter and how changes in host physiology influence parasite overwintering strategies using two animal models: the wood frog, Lithobates sylvaticus, and the causative agent of swimmer’s itch in Alaska, Trichobilharzia alaskensis. Expertise in parasitology, overwintering physiology, arts-science pedagogy, amphibians, swimmer’s itch and freeze tolerance.