Tropical ecology & biodiversity group at @PennStateBio.
State College, PA
Joined January 2018
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Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
3 Jan 2025United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
31 Oct 2024United States
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📢 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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
24 Oct 2024United States
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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!
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
9 Aug 2024United States
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Shoutout to @dmoura_campos for an excellent presentation on drought-driven disease outbreaks in Brazilian amphibians! #WCH10
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
6 Aug 2024United States
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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.
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
12 Jun 2024United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
12 May 2024United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
16 Apr 2024United States
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Today :-)
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
13 Apr 2024United States
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Parabens, aos dois!!💫✨:-)
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
10 Apr 2024United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
12 Feb 2024United States
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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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Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
28 Jan 2024United States
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🌍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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
21 Jan 2024United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
20 Jan 2024United States
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🔥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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
15 Dec 2023United States
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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
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
12 Dec 2023United States
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Ever heard of radio-tracking bacteria?! 🦠
In this new paper we followed wild Brazilian tree frogs using radio telemetry to test how habitat fragmentation influences their protective skin microbiomes and stress hormones: doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-0…; led by @wesleyjneely; @PSUmBiome
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
1 Oct 2023United States
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🐸New Research Alert!📢Our study on fungal pathogen infections in Equatorial Guinea frogs is out now. Learn how elevation and reproductive mode influence pathogen intensity in African frogs🏞️ doi.org/10.33256/33.4.103110
@ciddpsu, @PennStateBio, @PSUmBiome, @v_m_marshall, @RaynaCBell
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
14 Sep 2023United States
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🦠Our latest paper on amphibian chytrid lineages unravels how coinfection favored the more virulent and competitively superior chytrid panzootic genotype, despite dampening its transmission and overall virulence.🐸[doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-0…] @ciddpsu, @PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
6 Sep 2023United States
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This week, the @Becker_Lab shared research updates and offered important management recommendations during the 'jornada científica' event at Fundação Florestal, São Paulo State Park System. Special thanks to Renato Martins for summarizing our research.
Becker Lab@Becker_Lab
10 Aug 2023United States
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Big shoutout to @shannonbuttimer for her incredible presentation at #ESA2023! She delved into the fascinating topic of how droughts might trigger amphibian disease outbreaks by causing shifts in host microbiome function. Kudos! 🌱🐸
