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day, I am a PhD student. I am interested in linking ecological and evolutionary processes driving biological communities (populations of different species living in the same site). To explore this issue, I conduct lab and field experiments to understand how bacterial communities assemble on hosts (like you and me). Currently, I am working with the shore crab, Pachygrapsus transversus, associated microbial communities in the Texas Coast (See Research). By night, I play a variety of small guitars and write music as a tool to communicate science (in English y en Español, see Otros/Others). (Ver el sitio en Español - En construcción).  Images: Photography by Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler 1. Hermit crab (Family Paguroidea) at the Texas State Aquarium. 2. Fiddler crab (Uca thayeri). |