Anett Kristin Larsen
Job description
Anett is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biology. She is teaching Pharmacology to Master students in Biomedicine, Odotology students and Medical students, as well as Veterinary microbiology to Pharmacology students, in addition to supervising both bachelor-, master- and PhD-students. Her main research interests are liver physiology, infection biology and host-microbial interactions.
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Research interests
In the SECVIR project we are investigating the ability of liver endothelial cells to take up and eliminate virus from the blood. The sinusoidal endothelium in liver has evolved into a specialized scavenger endothelium with important functions in host defence, removing large amounts of connective tissue molecules, lipids, other potential dangerous molecules like possibly virus, from the blood. Our main goal is to investigate if different types of virus is eliminated via the liver by these specialized LSEC and hereby increase our understanding of what role these cells play in the body's antiviral defence.
This work is a very exciting extension of my main research interest which is cellular mechanisms during infectious diseases, including zoonoses. During my Post Doc my main focus was cell biology and immunology in Arctic species, developing infection models in primary cell cultures isolated from wild animals. I am also very interested in the combined effects of climate- and environmental change on health and immune competence.
Teaching
MBI-3015: Human pharmacology and toxicology
ODO-2009: Biomedicine 2
MED-2510: Medicine, 3rd year students
FAR-2205: Infection biology and immunology
HEL-0700: Academic writing in health- and social sciences
Member of research group
Member of project
CV
2018-present
Researcher at the Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT – the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
2017-2018
Advisor at the Department of Research and Outreach, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries, and Economics, UiT – the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
2014-2016
Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Tromsø (UiT) – the Arctic University of Norway, Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Research Group of Arctic Infection Biology
2011-2013
Post-doctoral researcher at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Section of Arctic Veterinary Medicine
2005-2010
PhD-position in medical biology at the University Hospital of North Norway, Department of Occupational- and Environmental Medicine, Tromsø. In collaboration with the University of Tromsø, Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tromsø, Norway.
Title: Proteases from seafood as activators of protease-activated receptor-2 in airway epithelial cells
2004-2005
Inspector at the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, District Office for Salten, Bodø
2004
Veterinarian, small animal clinic – Dyret i Sentrum, Narvik, Norway
1998-2004
Cand.Med.Vet at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences, Oslo, Norway