C. Guilherme Becker

Associate Professor of Biology

Huck Co-hire with Eberly College of Science

606 Mueller Lab
University Park, PA
He/Him
czb5935@psu.edu
205-242-5273

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Research Summary

Host-microbial interactions, landscape genetics and the ecology of global change stressors. Building models and conducting field and laboratory experiments to understand the biotic and abiotic mechanisms driving wildlife disease dynamics in both tropical and temperate systems.

Huck Graduate Students

Huck Affiliations

Ecology

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

One Health Microbiome Center

Most Recent Publications

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C. Guilherme Becker,

Haddadus binotatus (leaf litter frog)

R Martins, I Scheeffer, C Becker, Herpetological Review

Do fungi look like macroparasites? Quantifying the patterns and mechanisms of aggregation for host-fungal parasite relationships

Sarah A.R. Schrock, Jason C. Walsman, Joseph DeMarchi, Emily H. Lesage, Michel E.B. Ohmer, Louise A. Rollins-Smith, Cheryl J. Briggs, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Douglas C. Woodhams, Roland A. Knapp, Thomas C. Smith, Célio F.B. Haddad, C. Guilherme Becker, Pieter T.J. Johnson, Mark Q. Wilber, 2025, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The role of seasonal migration in predicting amphibian population persistence across fragmented tropical landscapes: an individual-based model

Tamilie Carvalho, Nereyda Falconi, Thomas White, Luciano Alves dos Anjos, Luís O.M. Giasson, Maurício Humberto Vancine, Célio F.B. Haddad, Luís Felipe Toledo, C. Guilherme Becker, 2025, Biodiversity and Conservation on p. 1291-1310

Effects of grassland controlled burning on symbiotic skin microbes in Neotropical amphibians

Laura K. Schuck, Wesley J. Neely, Shannon M. Buttimer, Camila F. Moser, Priscila C. Barth, Paulo E. Liskoski, Carolina de A. Caberlon, Victor Hugo Valiati, Alexandro M. Tozetti, C. Guilherme Becker, 2024, Scientific Reports

Amphibian tolerance to arsenic: microbiome-mediated insights

Isabella Ferreira Cordeiro, Camila Gracyelle de Carvalho Lemes, Angélica Bianchini Sanchez, Ana Karla da Silva, Camila Henriques de Paula, Rosilene Cristina de Matos, Dilson Fagundes Ribeiro, Jéssica Pereira de Matos, Camila Carrião Machado Garcia, Marina Beirão, C. Guilherme Becker, Maria Rita Silvério Pires, Leandro Marcio Moreira, 2024, Scientific Reports

Leaf Shelters Facilitate the Colonisation of Arthropods and Enhance Microbial Diversity on Plants

Danilo F B dos Santos, Jacob E Herschberger, Bijay Subedi, Victoria M Pocius, Wesley J Neely, Sasha E Greenspan, C. Guilherme Becker, Gustavo Q Romero, Mônica F Kersch-Becker, 2024, Ecology Letters

Brazil must reverse gear on Amazon road development

Lucas Ferrante, C. Guilherme Becker, 2024, Nature on p. 33

Host-associated helminth diversity and microbiome composition contribute to anti-pathogen defences in tropical frogs impacted by forest fragmentation

Wesley J. Neely, Kassia M.C. Souza, Renato A. Martins, Vanessa M. Marshall, Shannon M. Buttimer, Ananda Brito de Assis, Daniel Medina, Ross D. Whetstone, Mariana L. Lyra, José Wagner Ribeiro, Sasha E. Greenspan, Célio F.B. Haddad, Luciano Alves dos Anjos, C. Guilherme Becker, 2024, Royal Society Open Science

Skin microbiome disturbance linked to drought-associated amphibian disease

Shannon Buttimer, Diego Moura-Campos, Sasha E. Greenspan, Wesley J. Neely, Lucas Ferrante, Luís Felipe Toledo, C. Guilherme Becker, 2024, Ecology Letters

Most-Cited Papers

Historical amphibian declines and extinctions in Brazil linked to chytridiomycosis

Tamilie Carvalho, C. Guilherme Becker, Luís Felipe Toledo, 2017, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale

Jordan G. Kueneman, Molly C. Bletz, Valerie J. McKenzie, C. Guilherme Becker, Maxwell B. Joseph, Juan G. Abarca, Holly Archer, Ana Lisette Arellano, Arnaud Bataille, Matthew Becker, Lisa K. Belden, Angelica Crottini, Robert Geffers, Célio F.B. Haddad, Reid N. Harris, Whitney M. Holden, Myra Hughey, Michael Jarek, Patrick J. Kearns, Jacob L. Kerby, Jos Kielgast, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Ana V. Longo, Andrew Loudon, Daniel Medina, José J. Nuñez, R. G.Bina Perl, Adrián Pinto-Tomás, Falitiana C.E. Rabemananjara, Eria A. Rebollar, Ariel Rodríguez, Louise Rollins-Smith, Robert Stevenson, Christoph C. Tebbe, Gabriel Vargas Asensio, Bruce Waldman, Jenifer B. Walke, Steven M. Whitfield, Kelly R. Zamudio, Ibrahim Zúñiga Chaves, Douglas C. Woodhams, Miguel Vences, 2019, Nature Ecology and Evolution on p. 381-389

Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate

Douglas Woodhams, Molly Bletz, C. Guilherme Becker, Hayden Bender, Daniel Buitrago-Rosas, Hannah Diebboll, Roger Huynh, Patrick Kearns, Jordan Kueneman, Emmi Kurosawa, others, Brandon C. Labumbard, Casandra Lyons, Kerry McNally, Klaus Schliep, Nachiket Shankar, Amanda G. Tokash-Peters, Miguel Vences, Ross Whetstone, 2020, Genome Biology on p. 1--20

Hybrids of amphibian chytrid show high virulence in native hosts

S. E. Greenspan, C. Lambertini, T. Carvalho, T. Y. James, L. F. Toledo, C. F.B. Haddad, C. G. Becker, 2018, Scientific Reports

Warming drives ecological community changes linked to host-associated microbiome dysbiosis

Sasha E. Greenspan, Gustavo H. Migliorini, Mariana L. Lyra, Mariana R. Pontes, Tamilie Carvalho, Luisa P. Ribeiro, Diego Moura-Campos, Célio F.B. Haddad, Luís Felipe Toledo, Gustavo Q. Romero, C. Guilherme Becker, 2020, Nature Climate Change on p. 1057-1061