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Exciting collaboration led by the Bell Lab (Rayna Bell) 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 , Penn State Biology

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…

🌍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 Shannon Buttimer and Diego História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros for leading! doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…, Penn State Biology

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 Discover the Microbes Within! Wolbachia Project wolbachiaproject.org/bioinformatics

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 História Natural de Anfíbios Brasileiros, doi.org/10.1016/j.peco… One Health Microbiome Center Penn State Biology CIDD

🔥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… One Health Microbiome Center, Penn State Biology, CIDD

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

Yifei HUANG (Yifei Huang), our dear colleague, Asst Prof Penn State Biology, 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. Penn State Research Please RT. gofund.me/ef82effe

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…; led by Wes Neely; One Health Microbiome Center

🐸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.…
CIDD, Penn State Biology, One Health Microbiome Center, Vanessa Marshall, Rayna Bell

🦠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…] CIDD, One Health Microbiome Center, Penn State Biology

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.

Happy Fri-yay from our microbiome home to yours
One Health Microbiome Center Dr. Nichole Ginnan Laura Weyrich F Dini-Andreote Emily Davenport Jordan Bisanz
Dr. Liana T Burghardt Carolee Bull Raúl González-Pech (he/him) Mary Ann Bruns Darrell Cockburn Estelle Couradeau Becker Lab Sarai Finks, PhD (she/her) Dr V Kovac Lab Dr. Erika Ganda ...

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/10.1111/oi…

Big shoutout to Shannon Buttimer 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! 🌱🐸

'We found that, in some cases, vaccines can induce a protective shift in the microbiome.' — #PennState researcher Gui Becker buff.ly/42K97rQ Penn State Biology

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

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-v…