@Becker_Lab

Tropical ecology & biodiversity group at @PennStateBio.

 State College, PA
guibeckerweb.wixsite.com/thebeckerlab
Joined January 2018
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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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A very cool talk by @shannonbuttimer on how future droughts will influence disease risk of frogs to #chytrid fungus 🐸 #WCH10
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The toadlets made @Forbes! Thanks for the feature @GrrlScientist 😁 @Becker_Lab @RaynaCBell forbes.com/sites/grrlscienti…

Watch: How A Frog Is Helping Scientists Understand A Deadly Amphibian Pandemic

Recent field experiments focusing on a tiny, charismatic frog in southeastern Brazil are beginning to shed light on a disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

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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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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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Kateryna@MakovaLab4 Dec 2023
Yifei HUANG (@huangyifeicmb), our dear colleague, Asst Prof @PennStateBio, passed away from cancer in October at the age of 40. We are collecting donations for his daughter's education. All donations are tax-deductible. @PSUresearch Please RT. gofund.me/ef82effe
Yifei with his family in June 2023

ALT Yifei with his family in June 2023

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Happy Fri-yay from our microbiome home to yours @PSUmBiome @Botanichole @lsweyrich @FDiniAndreote @emo_davenport @JordanBisanz @LianaBurghardt @Buckhout_Bull @RaulGoch @MaryAnnBruns5 @darr25ll @Gloeomargarita @Becker_Lab @SaraiFinks @emily_vansyoc @kovac_lab @Erika__Ganda ...
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Our new study on the potential effects of demographic stochasticity on communities and metacomms is out. Check the link below if you want to know more about how the strength of env. selection within metacomms decreases with the decrease of community size. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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"We found that, in some cases, vaccines can induce a protective shift in the microbiome." — #PennState researcher Gui Becker buff.ly/42K97rQ @PennStateBio
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What is the One Health Microbiome Center and why does it matter to you? 🦠 Check out this video that features our core values and depths of scale spanning interviews and a behind-the-scenes look at our human, environmental, and agricultural scholarship. youtu.be/hiA7XznS4VQ
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New study found that a new #vaccine against the deadly #chytrid fungus in #frogs can shift the composition of the microbiome, making frogs more resilient to future exposure to the fungus. Learn more: phys.org/news/2023-06-vaccin…

Vaccine against deadly chytrid fungus primes frog microbiome for future exposure

A human or animal's microbiome—the collection of often beneficial microorganisms, including as bacteria and fungi, that live on or within a host organism—can play an important role in the host's...

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#SnakeFungalDisease 🐍🍄 might seem like a recently emerged threat in N. America but in a new #RDZLab @txstbiology article we found 1955 is the earliest date of detection for #Oo in Texas #Nerodia w/ conservation implications for endemic N. harteri #txst onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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New @EcoHealthNYC paper shows that protecting Amazon Indigenous territories will save >15 million cases of respiratory/cardiovascular disease & >$2 billion USD in health costs EACH YEAR!! Amazing work from @PaulaPrist @DrFlorSanger @cmzambranat 🧵 nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
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A big impact rolling out to graduate students at @PSUmBiome - the 1st PhD enrollment in the microbiome sciences. Hats off to @MaryAnnBruns5 @Erika__Ganda @Buckhout_Bull & Co. More info here: psu.edu/news/agricultural-sc…

New dual-title graduate degree in microbiome sciences now available | Penn State University

Students interested in the study of microbiomes now can apply for the new microbiome sciences dual-title doctoral degree program, administered by Penn State’s Department of Plant Pathology and...

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Less than 20 days left to apply. Join our dynamic research team @UCNZ with a fully-funded PhD position in metacommunity ecology.
Tadeu Siqueira@TadSiqueira20 Feb 2023
Reminder: fully funded PhD opportunity in our group @UCNZ Opportunity to develop your own ideas within topics such as: keystone communities; community recovery; contexts in which biodiversity is decoupled from environmental variation.
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Duas vagas para pós-doutorado em conservação de anfíbios e répteis no Instituto de Biociências da USP agencia.fapesp.br/pos-doutor…
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Abstract submission is open for @eeid2023 at Penn State (eeid2023.org/). Abstracts due March 15th. Hope to see you in Happy Valley!
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3 🐸 field positions on my team in this thread with salaries posted Come work in beautiful western Washington and study a diversity of amphibians to inform management
Max Lambert 🦫🦅🦌🐢🐸🏙💦@MaxRLambert1 Mar 2023
🐸 JOBS I'm hiring a series of amphibian field techs $3,401.00 - $4,541.00 2nd job in reply governmentjobs.com/careers/w…
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🚨🚨 My lab is hiring postdocs for a 5-yr NIH-NSF funded project on disease emergence and endemicity. Looking for aspiring spatial analysts and disease modelers. Based at Penn State in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Join us! tinyurl.com/postdocbharti
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EEID2023@eeid20231 Mar 2023
Applications are now being accepted for the EEID2023 workshop on “Communicating Novelty and Controversy in EEID” from 20-22 May at Penn State Details about the workshop and link to apply are here: eeid.vercel.app/workshop
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