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Wesley Alan Larson [email protected] || larsonlab.wordpress.com || @Wes_Larson1 || 715-346-3150 Current positions Assistant Unit Leader, U.S. Geological Survey Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, 2016-present Affiliate faculty, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources, 2016-present Education Ph.D. in Fisheries: University of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences (UW SAFS), 2015 Dissertation title: Using genetic tools to inform management and study local adaptation in Pacific salmon Major advisor: Dr. Lisa Seeb B.S. in Marine Biology: University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009 Honors and Awards Genetics Section of the American Fisheries Society Early Career Award, 2018 W.F. Thompson Award for best student paper in fisheries science published in 2014, 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2012-2015 Faculty Merit Award, UW SAFS, 2013 Fellowship, UW SAFS H. Mason Keeler Endowment for Excellence, 2010-2011 Funded Research Grants Support for fisheries genetics research in Wisconsin. Funding agency: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Duration: reoccurring. Total funding: approximately $150,000 per year. PI: W. Larson. Using genomics to delineate stock structure and create a standardized genetic resource for Great Lakes walleye. Funding Agency: Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Duration: 2019- 2020. Total funding: $195,671. PI: W. Larson. Using Genomics to improve stock structure resolution and assess recruitment dynamics of lake whitefish in Lake Michigan. Funding agency: Great Lakes Fishery Trust. Duration: 2019-2021. Total funding: $161,727. PI: W. Larson. Developing a high-throughput marker panel for lake sturgeon to standardize analyses across the Great Lakes. Funding Agency: Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act. Duration: 2019-2020. Total funding: $115,477. PI: W. Larson. Historical and Contemporary Genetic Diversity of Coregonus Species from Lake Michigan. Funding agency: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Duration: 2018-2020. Total funding: $134,160. PIs: W. Stott and W. Larson. Genetic assessment of Boardman River fish populations prior to dam removal. Funding agency: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Duration: 2018- 2020. Total funding: $150,000. PI: W. Larson. Using Genomic Tools to Investigate Adaptive Diversity in Great Lakes Cisco. Funding W.A Larson 1 Agency: Great Lakes Fishery Trust. Duration: 2018-2019. Total funding: $105,000. PI: W. Larson. Development of a genetic linkage map for cisco Coregonus artedi to facilitate integrated studies of adaptive diversity. Funding Agency: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Duration: 2017-2019. Total funding: $179,299. PIs: W. Larson and W. Stott. Developing genomic resources for Great Lakes cisco to facilitate species identification and investigate adaptation. Funding Agency: Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act. Duration: 2017-2019. Total funding: $76,144. PI: W. Larson. Using genetics to inform conservation of Iowa brook trout. Funding Agency: Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Duration: 2017-2019. Total funding: $20,000. PI: W. Larson. Development of eDNA techniques to detect copperbelly watersnake. Funding Agency: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Duration: 2017-2019. Total funding: $24,970. PI: W. Larson Using genetics to evaluate survival and natural reproduction of muskellunge in Wisconsin Lakes. Funding Agency: Hugh Becker Foundation. Duration 2018-2019. Total funding: $10,000. PI: W. Larson. Development of a Decision Support Tool (DST) for the use of environmental DNA. Funding agency: USGS Invasive Species Program. Duration: 2018-2020. Total funding: $218,802. PI: J. Amberg, co-PIs: W. Larson and J. Vander Zanden. Stock structure and contribution of west and east basin walleye to recreational and commercial fisheries in Lake Erie (co-PI). Funding Agency: Ohio Sea Grant. Duration: 2018-2010. Total funding: $119,724. PI: S. Ludsin, co-PI: W. Larson and six others. Spawning site contribution and movements of lake whitefish in northwestern Lake Michigan. Funding Agency: Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act. Duration: 2017-2021. Total funding: $276,962. PI: D. Isermann, co-PIs: W. Larson and seven others. Food web interactions among walleyes, lake whitefish, and yellow perch in Green Bay. Funding agency: Wisconsin Sea Grant. Duration: 2018-2020. Total funding: $197,007. PI: D. Isermann, co-PIs: W. Larson and twelve others. Genetic diversity among Great Lakes cisco species: exploring taxonomic and population boundaries. Funding agency: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Duration: 2019. Total funding: $73,658. PI: W. Stott, co-PIs: W. Larson and eight others. Building molecular tools for coregonine species identification. Funding agency: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Duration: 2019. Total funding: $43,632. PI: W. Stott, co-PIs: W. Larson and seven others. Transforming conservation genetics theory into practice: using adaptively important genes to conserve discrete populations of economically important fishes. Funding Agency: Hall Conservation Genetics Award, University of Washington. Duration: 2015. Total funding: $10,000. PI: W. Larson. Investigating the genetic basis of local adaptation in sockeye salmon from the Wood River Lakes. Funding Agency: UW SAFS H. Mason Keeler Endowment for Excellence. Duration: 2014-2015. Total funding: $21,441. PI: W. Larson. Pending Research Grants Applying molecular techniques to assess the impacts of non-native predators on juvenile Chinook salmon migrating through the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. Funding Agency: Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Grant Program. Duration: 2020-2022. Funding W.A Larson 2 requested: $1,489,561. PI: M. Henderson, co-PIs: W. Larson, S. Sethi, C. Michel, A. Kinziger, D. Pearse, and B. Singh. Combining genetics, otolith microchemistry, and vital rate estimation to inform restoration and management of fish populations in the UMRS. Funding agency: Upper Mississippi River Restoration Science in Support of Management Program. Duration: 2019-2021. Funding requested: $179,816. PI: W. Larson Peer-reviewed publications Meek, M.H. and W.A. Larson (equal contributions). The future is now: Amplicon sequencing and sequence capture usher in the conservation genomics era. In press. Molecular Ecology Resources. Sethi, S.A., W.A. Larson, K.N. Turnquist, and D.A. Isermann. 2018. Estimating the number of contributors to DNA mixtures provides a novel tool for ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Online early. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13079 Dembkowski, D.J., D.A. Isermann, S.R. Hogler, W.A. Larson, and K.N. Turnquist. 2018. Stock Structure, Dynamics, Demographics, and Movements of Walleyes Spawning in Four Tributaries to Green Bay. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 44(5) 907-978. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.07.002 Defilippo, L.B., D.E. Schindler, J.L. Carter, T.E. Walsworth, T.J. Cline, W.A. Larson, T. Buehrens. 2018. Associations of stream geomorphic conditions and alternative reproductive tactics among sockeye salmon populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 31(2) 239-253. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13217 Larson, W.A., M.T. Limborg, G.J. McKinney, D.E. Schindler, J.E. Seeb, and L.W. Seeb. 2017. Genomic islands of divergence linked to ecotypic variation in sockeye salmon. Molecular Ecology, 26(2) 554-570. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13933 Larson, W.A., Y. Palti, G. Gao, K.T. Warheit, and J.E. Seeb. 2017. Rapid discovery of SNPs that differentiate hatchery steelhead trout from ESA-listed natural-origin steelhead trout using a 57K SNP array. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 75(7) 1160-1168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0116 Turnquist, K.N., W.A. Larson, J.M. Farrell, P.A. Hanchin, K.L. Kapuscinski, L.M. Miller, K.T. Scribner, C.C. Wilson, B.L. Sloss. 2017. Genetic structure of muskellunge in the Great Lakes region and the effects of supplementation on genetic integrity of wild populations. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 43(6) 1141-1152. DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2017.09.005 Limborg, M.T, W.A. Larson, K. Shedd, L.W. Seeb, and J.E. Seeb. 2017. Novel RAD sequence data reveal a lack of genomic divergence between dietary ecotypes in a landlocked salmonid population. Conservation Genetics Resources 1-3. DOI: 10.1007/s12686-017-0791-4, IP- 084201 Limborg, M.T., W.A. Larson, L.W. Seeb, and J.E. Seeb. 2017. Screening of duplicated loci reveals hidden divergence patterns in a complex salmonid genome. Molecular Ecology, 26(17) 4509-4522. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14201, IP-083394 McKinney, G.J., W.A. Larson, L.W. Seeb, and J.E. Seeb. 2017. RADseq provides unprecedented insights into molecular ecology and evolutionary genetics: comment on Breaking RAD by Lowry et al. (2016). Molecular Ecology Resources, 17(3): 356-361. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12649 Larson, W.A., P.J. Lisi, J.E. Seeb, L.W. Seeb, and D.E. Schindler. 2016. Major histocompatibility complex diversity is positively associated with stream water temperatures W.A Larson 3 in proximate populations of sockeye salmon. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29(9): 1846- 59. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12926 Waples, R.K, W.A. Larson, and R.S. Waples. 2016. Estimating contemporary effective population size in non-model species using linkage disequilibrium across thousands of loci. Heredity, 117(4) 233-40. DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2016.60 Larson, W.A., G.J. McKinney, J.E. Seeb, and L.W. Seeb. 2016. Identification and characterization of sex-associated loci in sockeye salmon using genotyping-by-sequencing and comparison with a sex-determining assay based on the sdY gene. Journal of Heredity, 107(6) 559-66. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esw043 McKinney, G.J., L.W. Seeb, W.A. Larson, D. Gomez-Uchida, M.T. Limborg, M.S.O. Brieuc, M.V. Everett, K.A. Naish, R.W. Waples, and J.E. Seeb. 2016. An integrated linkage map reveals candidate genes underlying adaptive variation in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Molecular Ecology Resources, 16(3) 769-783. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12479 Larson, W.A., J.E. Seeb, M.T. Limborg, G.J. McKinney, M.V. Everett, and L.W. Seeb.