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Guilherme Becker is an Associate Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in host-microbial interactions, landscape genetics, and ecology of global change stressors. His research focuses on understanding biotic and abiotic mechanisms driving wildlife disease dynamics in tropical and temperate systems through modeling, fieldwork, and lab experiments.
- College of Science, Penn State
- Becker Lab
- Huck Graduate Program Faculty
- One Health Microbiome Center
- Ecology Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
His research integrates microbiome ecology, climate change impacts, and amphibian conservation. Key areas include disease transmission modeling, microbial community analysis, and environmental stressor effects on biodiversity.
Recent publications emphasize microbiome-disease interactions under climate change, with keywords spanning ecology, microbiology, and conservation biology. Studies explore temperature effects, habitat fragmentation, and microbial-mediated disease resistance.
Becker advises graduate students in the Huck program and maintains affiliations with multidisciplinary research centers. His work appears in journals like Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Scientific Reports.
Lab research connects climate variables to microbial dynamics, including drought impacts on amphibian pathogens and thermal mismatch effects. Collaborative projects investigate vaccine effects on frog microbiomes and habitat fragmentation consequences.
