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Thomas R. Raffel

Oakland University

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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Thomas R. Raffel

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