Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler

Biography

Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler (1984-) is a Colombian microbial ecologist and marine microbiologist, currently an associate professor at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research focuses on understanding microbial metacommunity dynamics, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and ecosystem dynamics. Her research group, the CGlab uses host associated microbial communities as a model system to understand how processes of community assembly result in patterns of diversity and function. The lab's main emphasis is on the microbes used in digestion in the Californian and Eastern carnivorous pitcher plants. In March 2021, Cuellar-Gempeler was awarded an Early Career grant of $1 million by the National Science Foundation.

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