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Since 2016, biology Assistant Professor Charissa de Bekker has been studying zombie ants in UCF's Parasitic Behavior Manipulation Lab and the phenomenon that occurs when a fungal infection takes over the ants' brains, kills the insects and uses their bodies to grow more parasites.
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PI: Charissa de Bekker, PhD The natural world around us has always fascinated me: from large mammals, to small insects, to micron-sized microbes. This inherent interest motivated me to study biology. During my Bachelor studies, I thought I would specialise in animal behaviour.
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At the moment, I am an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. My lab studies parasites that change the behavior of their hosts. Nature harbors quite some bizarre examples of parasites that evolved the ability manipulate.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, College of Sciences, Department of Biology. Assistant Professor - tenure and promotion to Associate Professor earned April 2022 - University of Central Florida, Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster.
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Faculty and Research Biology Charissa de Bekker Associate Professor Email Phone Office Biological Sciences, BIO435 E-mail [email protected] Phone 407-801-7915 Website Personal Website Research News Research I am very interested in parasite-host interactions that lead to a by the parasite manipulated behavioral output of the host's brain.
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Charissa de Bekker, PhD Principal Investigator Charissa is an assistant professor in the Biology Department and a member of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Cluster at UCF. For more information about Charissa click here. Or follow her on Twitter @CharissaB Postdoctoral Researchers William Beckerson, PhD NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Dr. A.M. (Charissa) de Bekker Assistant Professor Science Biology Environmental Biology Molecular Microbiology +31 30 253 2999 [email protected] Hugo R. Kruytgebouw Padualaan 8 Kamer O.408 3584 CH Utrecht Profile
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Dr. Charissa de Bekker Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida. When: August 28, 2020 at Noon Where: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Title: Connecting phenomes with functional genomes in ants, manipulated by a fungal parasite
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Charissa de Bekker, PhD. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at UCF. My research focuses around zombie-making parasites by asking what strategies certain parasites use to change animal behavior and how animal behavioral pathways are affected at the molecular level by these parasites.
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I am interested in the complexity of fungi displayed by their very dynamic transcriptome and metabolome. I currently study heterogeneous mechanisms employed by the entomopathogenic fungus.
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Assistant Professor Utrecht University sep. 2022 - heden 1 jaar 4 maanden Utrecht, Netherlands University of Central Florida 7 jaar 1 maand Adjunct Associate Professor aug. 2022 - heden 1 jaar 5.
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Why not? Getty Images A caterpillar consumed by a parasitic fungus - with its spore-releasing tendrils Dr Charissa de Bekker, a microbiologist at Utrecht University, has studied how Cordyceps.
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WIRED spoke with Dr. Charissa de Bekker to talk about the real fungus that inspired the show's infected, and how the show's zombies parallel these real-life ants.
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Charissa de Bekker is supported by NSF Career Award 1941546. Carolyn Elya is supported by a Hanna H. Gray fellowship from HHMI. Footnotes. Citation de Bekker C, Beckerson WC, Elya C. 2021. Mechanisms behind the madness: how do zombie-making fungal entomopathogens affect host behavior to increase transmission? mBio 12:e01872-21.
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