Peter Larsen, PhD

UMN College of Veterinary Medicine

Portrait of Peter Larsen

United States

Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences; Co-Director, Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach (MNPRO)

Topics of Focus: Molecular Biology, Veterinary medicine, Genomics, Evolutionary Biology, One Health, Bioinformatics

Grants and Projects include: 

  • NIH R01AI155472 - New tools for tick-borne pathogen surveillance

  • Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund - Establishing a Center for Prion Research and Outreach

  • University of Minnesota CGHSR - Elucidating Blood Meal Hosts and Pathogen Diversity of Aedes Mosquitoes in Borneo: Implications for Global Arbovirus Disease Mitigation

International Regions: Caribbean, Malaysia, Norway, Ecuador, Pakistan

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