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Thomas R. Raffel
Expertise
- Biological — Aquatic Amphibians and Reptiles — Community structures and dynamics
- Chemical — Pollutants / Contaminants — Toxicology
- Biological — Climate Change — Impacts (ecological and economic)
- Biological — Aquatic Invertebrate — Physiology / Organismal biology
- Biological — Aquatic Amphibians and Reptiles — Physiology / Organismal Biology
- Parasite and Disease Ecology
- Ecoimmunology
- Biological statistics
- Avian schistosomiasis
- Chytridiomycosis
Education / Outreach Target Audience
- Bachelors students
- Masters / PhD students
- Private land/home owners
- Youth community organizations (4-H, Girl Scouts, etc)
Professional Focus
Aquatic Ecotoxicology. Agricultural and other pollutants can have dramatic consequences for local pond communities, including altered dynamics of snail-borne parasites of frogs and people.
Thermal biology of parasitism and infectious diseases. Temperature variability has a variety of effects on parasitism in amphibians and vector-borne parasites of humans (e.g., schistosomes), and my lab is working to develop predictive models based on metabolic theory.
Unique Field / Laboratory Capacities
- Quantitative PCR assays for assaying amphibian chytrid levels from swab samples or environmental DNA from schistosome cercariae.
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