Dr. Larson holds a B.S. degree in Physiology and Neurobiology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Physiology from University of Colorado. His graduate work was under the mentorship of Dr. Catherine Proenza and focused on the mechanism behind decline of sinoatrial pacemaker activity with advancing age. After graduate school, he began postdoctoral work under the mentorship of Drs. Sue Kinnamon and Tom Finger at the University of Colorado. In those years, he focused on cell signaling from taste buds to the central nervous system. His postdoctoral time also included mentoring by Dr. Vijay Ramakrishnan where he did translational research examining the role of specialized nasal chemosensory cells in the development of inflammatory diseases including chronic rhinosinusitis. Since 2017, he has held a faculty appointment with the Department of Otolaryngology. In this time he focused on learning many types of bioinformatic analyses and began applying them to his field of research. Since then, he has been the sole bioinformatician on multiple R01 projects, mostly in the field of chemosensory sciences. Additionally, he is the PI of an Early Career R21 from NIDCD. The goals of this project are to study nasal solitary chemosensory cells in a mouse model using advanced techniques such as tissue clearing, light sheet imaging, and single cell RNA-sequencing. Presently, Dr. Larson balances time focusing on his own research interests and consulting with other PIs in closely related fields to perform bioinformatic analyses.

Disclosure: Dr. Larson has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.