Curriculum Vitae - Joakim Larsson

 CV and publication list in pdf-format 2008-06-14
Personal information
Name: Dan Göran Joakim Larsson
Born: 1969 in Ljungby, Sweden
Address work: Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Physiology/Endocrinology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Box 434, SE-405 30, Göteborg, Sweden
Tel work: +46-31-773 3589
Fax work: +46-31-773 3531
E-mail: joakim.larsson@fysiologi.gu.se

Professional preparation

Undergraduate University
Linköping university Chemistry/Biology 1989-1991
Göteborg University Biology MSc 1991-1993

Graduate University/Department
Göteborg University, Dept. of Zoology Zoophysiology PhD 1993-2000

Postdoc Universities/Departments
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ocean Sciences Centre, Canada (“pre-doc”) Marine Science 12 months 1994-1995
University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, USA Zoophysiology/Toxicology 12 months 2000-2001
Göteborg University, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology Medicine/Physiology 18 months 2001-2003

Appointments

University/Department
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology Assistant Professor 2003-2007
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg Docent in Physiology 2007-
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology Associate Professor 2007-2009

Teaching

1. Undergraduate teaching

Organizer for 10p course from 2003-2007 in Endocrinology, Digestion and Metabolism for the Biomedical Science Program and the Pharmacist Education. Regularly teaching endocrinology and physiology for undergraduate students in medicine, the Biomedical Science Program, the Pharmacist Program, the Program for Biomedical Analysis, the Research School in Biomedicine and other courses.

2. Supervised postdocs, PhD and Master students

2009- Carolin Rutgersson, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008- Anna Bylander, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008- Caroline Rutgersson, MSc, Human physiology, supervisor
2008- Filip Cuklev, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2008- Erik Kristiansson, postdoctoral fellow, Bioinformatics, ass. supervisor
2007- Noomi Asker, postdoctoral fellow, Molecular biology, supervisor
2007  Anna Holmberg, postdoctoral fellow, Zoophysiology, supervisor
2005- Jeffrey Brown, postdoctoral fellow, Chemistry, supervisor
2006- Andreas Kullgren, PhD, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2005  Linda Augustsson, MSc, Physiology, supervisor
2005  Stina Fredriksson, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2005- Eva Albertsson, PhD, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
2004- Linda Samuelsson, postdoctoral fellow, Metabolomics, supervisor
2004- Lina Gunnarsson, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2003- Magdalena Nutu, PhD, Physiology, supervisor
2003  Åsa Ek MSc Human, Physiology, supervisor
2002  Anna Henricsson, MSc, Human Physiology, supervisor
1998  Magnus Nilsson, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor
1998  Hans Hällman, MSc, Environmental Science, ass. supervisor
1997  Jari Parkkonen, MSc, Zoophysiology, ass. supervisor

Associated supervisor in the Research School for Genomics and Bioinformatics, GU, from 2004.

Major research grants

2009-2011. SIDA. Microbial diversity and development of antibiotic resistance associated with industrial wastewater treatment. 750,000 SEK to ERB Moore (JL co-applicant).

2008-2012. Göteborg Research School for Environment and Health. Consumption of inexpensive medicines – increased risks for resistance development and environmental effects? 1,800,000 SEK to JL.

2008-2011. MISTRA. MistraPharma – identification and reduction of environmental risks caused by the use of human pharmaceuticals. 44,200,000 SEK. JL is one of seven partners in the application group.

2008-2010. FORMAS. Endocrine disruption of non-genomic progesterone signaling - consequences for gamete transport and sex ratios. 2,587,950 SEK to JL.

2008-2010. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and MISTRA. Swedish field studies to evaluate ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals in sewage effluents. 438,000 SEK to JL.

2008-2009. Stockholm Vatten. Fortsatta fiskförsök för att utvärdera reningsmetoder som avlägsnar läkemedelsrester. 479,900 SEK to JL.

2007-2009. FORMAS. Multi-Endpoint Microarray Analyses in Biological Effect Monitoring of Wild Fish Populations. 3,280,500 SEK to L Förlin and J Larsson.

2007-2009. GU (Science faculty – strategical area). Ecotoxicology – from gene to ocean. 7,500,000 SEK. J Larsson co-applicant with L Förlin, H Blanck, G Dave and M Celander.

2007-2008. Adlerbertska Research Foundation. Assessing the risks for bacterial resistance development in effluents from Indian pharmaceutical industries 135,000 SEK

2006-2007. SIDA. Studies of the effluent toxicity from the Patancheru Enviro-Tech Ltd plant in Hyderabad, India to direct further actions including possible mitiations. 231,000 SEK to JL.

2006-2007. MISTRA. Planning grant for a research program application on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment. 300,000 SEK to KTH, GU, UmU, SU and Kemi&Miljö.

2006-2008. GU (Science faculty – strategical area). Göteborg Research platform on Integrative Physiology (GRIP). 9,000,000 SEK. Coordinator S. Holmgren (24 principal investigators).

2006-2007. FORMAS. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1,000,000 to JL

2005-2006. VA-FORSK. Analysesof pharmaceutical residues in fish blood for evaluation of environmental effects of sewage effluents. 358,600 SEK to JL.

2004-2007. MISTRA. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1,670,000; 1,730,000; 1,660,000 and 2,310,000 SEK to JL

2005-2006. Swedish Research Council (VR-Medicine). Project grant. Project K2005-72X-14572-03A to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death – specific roles of membrane progesterone receptors. 225,000 SEK per year

2004-2005. FORMAS. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – Development of Biological Fingerprints. 1120,000 and 1050,000 SEK to JL.

2003-2004. Adlerbertska Research Foundation. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment – development of biological fingerprints. 50,000 SEK to JL.

2003. GUVR (Göteborg University Science Council). Interdisciplinary project planning grant: Environmental effects of pharmaceuticals. 50,000 SEK to JL.

2003-2006. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Position as Assistant Professor. Project 2003/B1664 to JL. 643,000 SEK per year

2003-2004. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Special funding for young scientists. Project 2003/B0828 to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death? 208,000 SEK per year

2003-2004. Swedish Research Council (Medicin). Bioscience project 2003/B0828B to JL: How does progesterone control programmed cell death? 52,000 SEK per year

2002. FORMAS (The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning). Disturbed sex ratios in aquatic organisms exposed to pulp mill effluents. Co-investigator. 520,000 SEK.

2001. MISTRA (Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research). Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.

2001. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. What causes masculinization and other endocrine disturbances in fish downstream pulpmills? Co-investigator. 350,000 SEK.

2000-2001. Södra Cell. Studies of endocrine changes in fish in the recipient from Mönsterås bruk. Principal Investigator. 190,000 SEK.

2000. MISTRA. Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.

2000. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. What causes masculinization and other endocrine disturbances in fish downstream pulpmills? Co-investigator. 300,000 SEK.

1999-2000. Södra Cell. Studies of endocrine changes in fish in the recipient from Mönsterås bruk. Co-investigator. 550,000 SEK.

1999. MISTRA Sublethal effects of endocrine disrupters in fish. Co-investigator. 400,000 SEK.
 

Scientific assignments, personal awards, scholarships

2008. Faculty opponent PhD dissertation, Centre of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University.

2008. Responsible for GU’s remittance to the Dep. of the Environment on the EPA report: "Avloppsreningsverkens förmåga att ta hand om läkemedelsrester och andra….”.

2007- Committee’ member on several PhD dissertations.

2007- Member of local organizing committee for SETAC Europe in Göteborg 2009.

2007- Member of reference group, VG-region’s work with drugs in the environment.

2007. Chair at session on “Systems Biology in the Environment” at SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, Portugal, 20-24 May 2007.

2007-2009 Co-chair of Animal ethics committee 2.5 in Göteborg..

2006 Member of FORMAS reference group for developing future research strategies within the areas of climate, biogeochemistry, environmental toxicology, terrestrial and aquatic toxicology and biodiversity.

2006- Deputy member, board of the Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology at GU

2006 Scientific Committee Member/Advisor, DIA/HESI/SAPS Conference on Environmental Assessment of Human Medicines, Stockholm, May 22-23, 2006. Referee for proceedings together with B. Halling-Sørensen.

2005-2006 Executive coordinator together with Professors Lars Förlin and Hans Blanck for preparing an interdisciplinary “Linneaus-application” on “Ecotoxicogenomics” for GU.

2005- Deputy member, board of the National Research School for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

2005- Board member of the Junior Faculty of the Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University

2005 Member of reference group for the Swedish Pharmaceutical Industries Association work on developing environmental information for FASS.SE

2004 Assigned by the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate to represent Sweden in OECD toxicogenomics workshop, Kyoto, Japan. Oct. 13-15, 2004. Assigned rapporteaur.

1999- Referee-requests/assignments (app. monthly during the past years) for various scientific journals, most commonly: Aquat Toxicol, Environ Toxicol Chem, Environ Health Perspect and Environ Sci Technol.
 

Participation at scientific meetings and workshops

SETAC Europe 18th annual conference, Warsaw, Poland. May 25-29, 2008.

ERA-Pharm conference on pharmaceuticals in the environment. 2007, York, Sept. 19-21.

World Water Week. Stockholm, Aug 12th, 2007

SETAC Europe 17th annual conference Porto, Portugal. June 20-24, 2007.

Oslo International Workshop on the Environmental Fate and Effects of Pharmaceuticals. Nov 24, 2006.

DIA-conference on Environmental Assessment on Human Medicines. Stockholm, Sweden. May 22-23, 2006. Programme advisor and referee for all proceedings together with B. Halling-Sørensen.

Conference on "Statistical Methods in Gene and Protein Expression", Göteborg, Sweden, May 10-12, 2006.

SETAC Europe, Haag, the Netherlands, May 7-11, 2006.

Seminar on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment arranged by the Swedish Society for Veterinary Research. Ulltuna, February 14, 2006. Invited speaker.

”Intressentdialog” – workshop on Safety, Health and Environment arranged by AstraZeneca, Stockholm , February 2, 2006. Invited participant.

“Open day” conference with an “Ecotoxicogenomics – theme” within the National Research School for Genomics and Bioinformatics. November 24, 2005. Main organizer.

Course on pharmaceuticals in the environment arranged by IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Göteborg, November 16, 2005. Invited lecturer.

EMEA Conference on Environmental Risk Assessment for Human and Veterinary Medicinal Products. London, October 27-28, 2005.

SETAC-sponsored workshop on “Molecular Biology and Risk Assessment: Evaluation of the Potential Roles of Genomics in Regulatory Ecotoxicology”. Pellston, USA. September 18-21, 2005. Invited participant.

The 6th Nord-Utte Network meeting, Tisvilde, Denmark. August 29-31, 2005.

Avlopp och Kretslopp. Linköping March 8-9, 2005. Invited speaker.

The Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology winter meeting. Beitostølen, Norway. Jan. 27-30, 2005. Invited speaker.

Seminars on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment arranged by the Swedish Society for Toxicology. Solna, Sweden. Oct. 26, 2004. Invited speaker.

OECD toxicogenomics workshop, Kyoto, Japan. Oct. 13-15, 2004.

Toxicogenomics International Forum 2004. Kyoto, Japan. Oct 12-13, 2004.

Läkemedelskongressen. Stockholm September 27-29, 2004. Invited keynote speaker.

Functional genomics - from birth to death. Göteborg, Sweden, August 19 - 20, 2004

FASEB summer conference on: Steroid Hormone Receptors: Integration of Plasma Membrane- and Nuclear- Initiated Signaling in Hormone Action. Tucson, Arizona, USA. July 31 -Aug 5, 2004

Danish society for obstretics and gynecology, spring meeting April 23, 2004. Hindsgavl, Denmark. Invited speaker.

Workshop on pharmaceuticals in the environment – current research and regulatory aspects. Stockholm, Sweden, March 3, 2004.

Workshop on environmental effects of pharmaceuticals. Swedish MPA, Uppsala, Sweden, April 3, 2003.

Annual meeting for Svensk Förening för Toxikologi, Stockholm , Sweden, March 07, 2003. Invited speaker.

The 21st annual SETAC meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12-16, 2000.

BEQUALM 10 - Fish Reproductive Success, Department of Fisheries, Institute for Coastal Research, Öregrund, Sweden, Nov. 17-20, 1999. Invited speaker.

The 6th International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish, Bergen, Norway. July 4-9, 1999.

The 3rd Xenofish Workshop – Impacts of Marine Xenobiotics on European Commercial Fish – Molecular & Populational Responses, Leioa, Spain, June 3-6, 1999. Invited speaker.

The 10th International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms - PRIMO 10, Williamsburg, VA, USA. April 25-29, 1999.

The final conference of the FiRe research programme. "Reproductive disturbances in Baltic fish" Stockholm University. March 3, 1999.

The EMBO-workshop on Reproduction and Early Development. Organizers D. Chourrout & B. Walther. University of Bergen, Norway. Oct. 3-7, 1988.

The 9th International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms - PRIMO 9. Bergen, Norway, April 27-30, 1997.

The 126th American Fisheries Society Meeting. Dearborn, Michigan, 26-29 August, 1996.

The 2nd Workshop on Reproductive Disturbances in Fish, Lidingö, Sweden, Nov. 20-23, 1995.

The 5th International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish. Austin, Texas, 2-8 July 1995.