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Research in the Vredenburg lab focuses broadly on ecology, evolution and conservation. We incorporate elements of population, community, and behavioral ecology to investigate the impacts of emerging infectious disease, introduced predators, habitat destruction, and climate change on natural communities and individual species. In our research, we conduct fieldwork, run lab-based experiments, generate, describe and analyze next generation sequences of microbial communities (amphibian skin microbiome), and conduct assays on specimens from natural history collections (e.g. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences).

Amphibians are a focus of the lab, and are the most threatened group of vertebrates on Earth. For this reason, Dr. Vredenburg co-founded AmphibiaWeb.org, a bioinformatics source for all of the world's living amphibians. AmphibiaWeb provides a nexus for amphibian biology and conservation for all known amphibian species (>8,400) and includes species-specific and family web pages, conservation status, ecological and distributional data, disease data, photographs, the latest taxonomy, and much more. AmphibiaWeb receives > 7.5 million successful queries per year.

Statement on Inclusion and Anti-Racism from Dr. Vredenburg: I believe we must each take action in our everyday lives to overturn the legacy of white supremacy that still exists in the United States. In my lab we welcome individuals regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or nationality, and we take an active stance to improve our scientific community and society at large (see more about Vredenburg Lab Anti-Racism stance).

Affiliations: AmphibiaWeb , Fulbright, SFSU Dept Biology, Univ California Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences