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October 28, 2022
Leif Albertson’s interests include public health, environmental health, gardening, nutrition and residential energy issues. He is a statewide expert on several rural public health issues, including indoor air quality, food policy (specifically connections between community gardens and health) and water fluoridation.
October 28, 2022
Behavioral neuroscience with a focus on how the brain regulates adaptive and non-adaptive behaviors.
October 28, 2022
Diagnosis of public health-related viral infections. Clinical and molecular virology research on virus-host cell interaction of human and animal viruses.
October 28, 2022
Developing bio-markers to monitor and assess the health of wildlife populations; how the central nervous system protects itself from contaminants, especially in the extreme environment of the Arctic; science education.
October 28, 2022
Zoonotic disease and pathogen discovery in Alaskan wildlife with emphasis on bacterial disease. Sled dog health in long-distance races like the Yukon Quest.
October 28, 2022
Infectious diseases like rabies and tularemia, disease surveillance in the Arctic fox, science education through research.
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October 28, 2022
The identification and characterization of natural products from blueberries that can help treat human central nervous system inflammation.
October 28, 2022
Larson focuses on how animals and their parasites cope with environmental changes. Researches how parasites overwinter and how changes in host physiology influence parasite overwintering strategies.
October 28, 2022
Clinical nutrition, exercise physiology, metabolic diseases of domestic animals; energy metabolism; general physiology, sled-dog medicine.
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October 28, 2022
Food animal medicine, metabolic diseases of ruminants, neonatal diseases of ruminants, farm animal welfare, One Health Initiative.
October 28, 2022
Interactions between viruses and their vertebrate and invertebrate hosts such as caribou. The molecular evolution of epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus in white-tailed deer.
October 28, 2022
Stable isotope ecology, nutritional physiology, and biomarker development. Diane’s research is focused on the development of biomarkers for use in nutritional epidemiology. O’Brien uses dietary tools based on natural stable isotope ratios to study the effects of changing diets on Alaska Native health and other populations.
October 28, 2022
Rasmus’ research focuses on understanding the intersections between culture, health, and well-being, and the role of resilience and protective factors in reducing health disparities among American Indian/Alaska Native peoples.
October 28, 2022
Leslie Shallcross is a registered dietitian with a career in public health promotion and disease prevention programs. Areas of expertise include public health, nutrition through the lifecycle, diabetes prevention and control, food preservation, food security and food safety. She coordinates and offers statewide community-based programs in diabetes prevention and the self-management of diabetes and chronic disease.
October 28, 2022
Neuroscience focusing on fundamental neurobiology as studied in neural cell cultures. Establishing an in vitro model of myelinating brain tissue to study effects of proteins such as found in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.