Becker Lab

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-sca… #Conservation #KidsBooks

📢 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

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!

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

Ecosystem engineers altering the phyllosphere microbiome? Check out this new study led by the Kersch-Becker Lab! 🌿🐛🕷️

Shoutout to @dmoura_campos for an excellent presentation on drought-driven disease outbreaks in Brazilian amphibians! #WCH10

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.

A very cool talk by @shannonbuttimer on how future droughts will influence disease risk of frogs to #chytrid fungus 🐸 #WCH10

Really cool links found between host-associated helminths and skin/gut microbiomes in tropical amphibians. Kudos to @wesleyjneely for leading this fascinating study! 🐸🔬 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… @PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio, @ciddpsu

@texcroc @fvelasquez98 Looking good bro!

Awesome time at the Southeast Texas Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics - Interact Symposium hosted by U. of Houston. My keynote highlighted our NSF funded project on Ecuadorian amphibians and chytrid. Proud to hear @fvelasquez98 is doing well in his PhD program there! 🌳🐸🍄🧬🇪🇨

The toadlets made @Forbes! Thanks for the feature @GrrlScientist 😁 @Becker_Lab @RaynaCBell forbes.com/sites/grrlscie…

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…, @PSUmBiome, @PennStateBio, @ciddpsu

@BarefootBiology It wasn't recorded, unfortunately.

@Becker_Lab Any chance this was recorded?

Today :-)

@Symbionticism @MollyBletz @PSUmBiome Two of my favorite people :-)

Monday Microbiome chat with ⁦@MollyBletz⁩ and sunshine. The ⁦@PSUmBiome⁩ science awakens as the spring bunnies say hi and scurry on the lawn. All smiles today.

@diegojsantana @ceronkarol Parabens, aos dois!!💫✨:-)

Hoje a @ceronkarol (uma das minhas crias de doutorado) tomou posse como professora na Universidade Federal do Ceará, em Fortaleza. Pensa um orientador muito feliz!!! #ProudMama Sucesso sempre, Karol!

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… #VisualEvolution, @PennStateBio

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

An insightful news piece discussing our research on the harmful effects of droughts, disrupting host-microbiome interactions and triggering disease in tropical amphibians. 🌿🐸 psu.edu/news/huck-inst…

@fisher_mat wanna help us ID the fungus?

@Becker_Lab Woah! Amphibian endophytes!

Mushroom sprouting out of a living frog...fungi are incredible, so are frogs. journals.ku.edu/reptilesandamp…