Tropical ecology & biodiversity group at @PennStateBio.
Joined January 2018
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3 Jan 2025
Our @RIBBiTR_BII children's book about Pitanga, the pumpkin toadlet, is out! 🐸 Follow his adventures as he faces challenges after losing his home.🍃 Download it for free here: lulu.com/shop/sarah-scarclif… #Conservation #KidsBooks
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31 Oct 2024
📢 The Becker Lab is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2025! Join us to study how global change impacts tropical wildlife, emerging diseases & the microbiome. 🌎🐸
Interested? Send 1-2 paragraphs outlining your research/career goals to guibecker (AT) psu . edu
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24 Oct 2024
The 2024 field season is in full swing for the @Becker_Lab! Exciting breakthroughs are on the horizon thanks to the hard work of our amazing field team!
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14 Oct 2024
First official postdoc fieldwork 🐸📷 Released a Melanophryniscus setiba right where he was found (I did not touch them without gloves) The fight to conserve this species will be big, but there’s people ready to fight for these little ones! #Conservation #Amphibians
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4 Oct 2024
Ecosystem engineers altering the phyllosphere microbiome? Check out this new study led by the Kersch-Becker Lab! 🌿🐛🕷️
4 Oct 2024
Fresh from the Kersch-Becker Lab! 🌿Our latest research @Ecology_Letters shows how leaf shelters boost microbial diversity in the phyllosphere. Congrats to @daniloentomo on this exciting work! 👏🎉 #latinosinSTEM #diversityinSTEM @PSUmBiome @PSU_Entomology
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9 Aug 2024
Shoutout to @dmoura_campos for an excellent presentation on drought-driven disease outbreaks in Brazilian amphibians! #WCH10
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6 Aug 2024
Kudos to @shannonbuttimer for representing @Becker_Lab at the @WCH10! She presented on the impact of drought on animal behavior and disease transmission in tropical frogs.
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6 Aug 2024
A very cool talk by @shannonbuttimer on how future droughts will influence disease risk of frogs to #chytrid fungus 🐸 #WCH10
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12 Jun 2024
Really cool links found between host-associated helminths and skin/gut microbiomes in tropical amphibians. Kudos to @wesleyjneely for leading this fascinating study! 🐸🔬
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@PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio, @ciddpsu
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3 Jun 2024
The toadlets made @Forbes! Thanks for the feature @GrrlScientist 😁 @Becker_Lab @RaynaCBell forbes.com/sites/grrlscienti…
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12 May 2024
Vertebrate #microbiomes may play a crucial role in detoxifying environmental contaminants like metalloids, revealing key pathways for vertebrate resilience. Check out our new collaborative study led by the Moreira Lab. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-6…, @PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio, @ciddpsu
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10 Apr 2024
Exciting collaboration led by the Bell Lab (@RaynaCBell) and a team of outstanding scientists unveils the intricate adaptations of frog vision, shedding light on opsin gene evolution and spectral sensitivities! 🌈🐸 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae0… #VisualEvolution, @PennStateBio
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15 Mar 2024
Are you interested in integrative biology and amphibian conservation? RIBBiTR is hosting a training workshop at SNARL in California for grad students and postdocs! Applications accepted in English, Português, and Español. Application deadline: April 5, 2024
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12 Feb 2024
An insightful news piece discussing our research on the harmful effects of droughts, disrupting host-microbiome interactions and triggering disease in tropical amphibians. 🌿🐸
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28 Jan 2024
🌍Continental-scale shifts in rainfall patterns due to land use could indeed lead to microbiome-scale dysbiosis and disease in endemic tropical amphibians in natural forests. Kudos to @shannonbuttimer and Diego @LaHNAB_UNICAMP for leading! doi.org/10.1111/ele.14372, @PennStateBio
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23 Jan 2024
Just released: Project Guide that introduces students to bioinformatics, DNA Sequencing to determine taxonomic identity and evolutionary relatedness of symbionts, etc. Skills learned in this guide may be applied to @WolbachiaProj wolbachiaproject.org/bioinfo…
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21 Jan 2024
New paper out!📄Using museum specimens, we demonstrate that cool-adapted, high-elevation tropical frogs historically had higher pathogen prevalence in abnormally warm years.🐸🌡️
Kudos to Tamilie @LaHNAB_UNICAMP, doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2024… @PSUmBiome @PennStateBio @ciddpsu
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20 Jan 2024
🔥New paper alert! Former @TozettiLab undergraduate prodigy 🌟Laura Schuck leverages data from a controlled fire experiment to unveil how #wildfires trigger microbiome #dysbiosis and disease in tropical amphibians. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-5… @PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio, @ciddpsu
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15 Dec 2023
Flashback to our 2023 field season in Brazil's Atlantic Forest! 🌿 Exciting @RIBBiTR_BII science on the horizon—stay tuned! Wishing you all happy holidays! 🎉 #Biodiversity #Rainforest
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