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Dr. Till Harter
Principal Investigator
I’m a comparative physiologist with broad interests in mechanistic cardiovascular and cellular physiology. My main research focus has been to understand how red blood cells work to deliver oxygen to all other cell types and remove the waste product carbon dioxide. Disruptions of a continuous cellular oxygen supply underlie many health conditions in humans (such as strokes, heart attacks and COPD), may exclude most mammals from life at high altitudes (but a few mouse species are notable exceptions), and may limit the survival of fishes to man-made environmental change. My goal is to understand how phenotypic plasticity in red blood cell function helps vertebrates to maintain a continuous oxygen supply during environmental and metabolic stress, and how the red blood cells from some species have adapted to enable life in extreme environments (e.g. frigid Antarctic waters or high altitude hypoxia). I obtained my PhD from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, with Colin Brauner, and worked as a postdoc at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego with Martin Tresguerres, and McMaster University in Hamilton with Graham Scott. Since 2024, I’ve been working as a Research Group Leader at the GEOMAR Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel.
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