Carla Cáceres
Carla Eva Cáceres | |
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Alma mater | Cornell University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Illinois |
Thesis | Egg bank dynamics and daphnid species diversity in Oneida Lake, New York (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Nelson G. Hairston, Jr. |
Carla Cáceres is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for her research in population, community and evolutionary ecology, focusing on the origins, maintenance, and functional significance of biodiversity within ecosystems. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Education and career[]
Cáceres' interest in freshwater ecology was evident by the age of eight when she was collecting organisms from bodies of water near her house and looking at them under a microscope.[1] While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan she did her honor's thesis in John Lehman's laboratory on plankton found in Lake Michigan[1] which led to co-authorship on a paper that was published in 1993.[2]
She earned her B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan (1991)[3] and earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University in 1997.[4] From 1996 until 2001, she was an assistant professional scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey.[5] Cáceres started at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997, where she was promoted to full professor in 2012.[3]
From 2012 to 2019, she co-directed the Orpheum Children's Museum Day Camp--"Girls Do Science!", an outreach program designed to engage young girls, grades 2nd-6th, in science activities.[6][7]
Research[]
Cáceres conducts research into eco-evolutionary feedbacks on community assembly, especially in stormwater habitats,[8] and the community ecology of disease.[6] Her graduate research was the first quantify the storage effect,[9] an ecological theory defining the co-existence of species within an ecological community. Cáceres assessed how the storage effect impacted the survival of two species of water fleas, Daphnia galeata mendotae and Daphnia pulicaria-[9] a paper which in 1999 was awarded the Raymond L. Lindeman Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.[1] She has also examined the role of dormancy on the survival of Daphnia eggs,[10] how genetic diversity in water fleas contributes to their survival in newly-colonized ponds,[11][12] and variability in dispersal rates across species of zooplankton.[13]
A portion of Cáceres' research considers how disease is spread across organisms, particularly how predation increases the spread of disease[14] and the role of increasing temperature on the growth and transmission of parasites.[15][16] In 2020, Cáceres was involved in research using Dapnia pulex to assess the role of host exposure to parasitic diseases,[17] a topic noted by the press[18][19] as of potential relevance during the COVID-19 pandemic given the potential transmission of disease across animal species.
Selected publications[]
- Cáceres, Carla E. (19 August 1997). "Temporal variation, dormancy, and coexistence: A field test of the storage effect". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94 (17): 9171–9175. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.9171C. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.17.9171. PMC 23092. PMID 11038565.
- Cáceres, Carla E. (1998). "Interspecific Variation in the Abundance, Production, and Emergence of Daphnia Diapausing Eggs". Ecology. 79 (5): 1699–1710. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1699:IVITAP]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1939-9170.
- Cáceres, Carla E.; Soluk, Daniel A. (1 May 2002). "Blowing in the wind: a field test of overland dispersal and colonization by aquatic invertebrates". Oecologia. 131 (3): 402–408. Bibcode:2002Oecol.131..402C. doi:10.1007/s00442-002-0897-5. ISSN 1432-1939. PMID 28547712. S2CID 9941895.
- Cáceres, Carla E.; Knight, Christine J.; Hall, Spencer R. (2009). "Predator–spreaders: Predation can enhance parasite success in a planktonic host–parasite system". Ecology. 90 (10): 2850–2858. doi:10.1890/08-2154.1. ISSN 1939-9170. PMID 19886493.
- Colbourne, J. K.; Pfrender, M. E.; Gilbert, D.; Thomas, W. K.; Tucker, A.; Oakley, T. H.; Tokishita, S.; Aerts, A.; Arnold, G. J.; Basu, M. K.; Bauer, D. J.; Caceres, C. E.; Carmel, L.; Casola, C.; Choi, J.-H.; Detter, J. C.; Dong, Q.; Dusheyko, S.; Eads, B. D.; Frohlich, T.; Geiler-Samerotte, K. A.; Gerlach, D.; Hatcher, P.; Jogdeo, S.; Krijgsveld, J.; Kriventseva, E. V.; Kultz, D.; Laforsch, C.; Lindquist, E.; Lopez, J.; Manak, J. R.; Muller, J.; Pangilinan, J.; Patwardhan, R. P.; Pitluck, S.; Pritham, E. J.; Rechtsteiner, A.; Rho, M.; Rogozin, I. B.; Sakarya, O.; Salamov, A.; Schaack, S.; Shapiro, H.; Shiga, Y.; Skalitzky, C.; Smith, Z.; Souvorov, A.; Sung, W.; Tang, Z.; Tsuchiya, D.; Tu, H.; Vos, H.; Wang, M.; Wolf, Y. I.; Yamagata, H.; Yamada, T.; Ye, Y.; Shaw, J. R.; Andrews, J.; Crease, T. J.; Tang, H.; Lucas, S. M.; Robertson, H. M.; Bork, P.; Koonin, E. V.; Zdobnov, E. M.; Grigoriev, I. V.; Lynch, M.; Boore, J. L. (4 February 2011). "The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex". Science. 331 (6017): 555–561. Bibcode:2011Sci...331..555C. doi:10.1126/science.1197761. PMC 3529199. PMID 21292972.
Awards and honors[]
- Raymond L. Lindeman Award, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (1999)[1] for Cáceres (1997) paper[20]
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2003)[21]
- Sustaining fellow, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (2015)[22]
- Fellow, Ecological Society of America (2016)[23]
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017)[24]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "ASLO AWARDS". ASLO Bulletin. 8 (1): 13–24. 1999. doi:10.1002/lob.19998113.
- ^ Lehman, John T.; Cáceres, Carla E. (1993). "Food-web responses to species invasion by a predatory invertebrate: Bythotrephes in Lake Michigan". Limnology and Oceanography. 38 (4): 879–891. Bibcode:1993LimOc..38..879L. doi:10.4319/lo.1993.38.4.0879. hdl:2027.42/109974. ISSN 1939-5590.
- ^ a b "Cáceres CV" (PDF). August 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Caceres, Carla Eva (1997). Egg bank dynamics and daphnid species diversity in Oneida Lake, New York. ISBN 978-0-591-24025-2. OCLC 841775481.
- ^ "Illinois Natural History Survey Directory". www.inhs.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ a b Cáceres, Carla E. "Carla Eva Cáceres." The Cáceres Lab. University of Illinois, Web. 26 Nov. 2013.
- ^ "June 2012 – Orpheum Children's Museum Day Camp – Girls Do Science – Graduates in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology". Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Holmes, Christopher J.; Cáceres, Carla E. (2020). "Predation differentially structures immature mosquito populations in stormwater ponds". Ecological Entomology. 45 (1): 97–108. doi:10.1111/een.12783. ISSN 0307-6946.
- ^ a b Cáceres, Carla E. (19 August 1997). "Temporal variation, dormancy, and coexistence: A field test of the storage effect". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94 (17): 9171–9175. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.9171C. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.17.9171. PMC 23092. PMID 11038565.
- ^ Cáceres, Carla E. (1998). "Interspecific Variation in the Abundance, Production, and Emergence of Daphnia Diapausing Eggs". Ecology. 79 (5): 1699–1710. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1699:IVITAP]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1939-9170.
- ^ "Scientists watch water fleas take over new territory". ScienceDaily. July 19, 2016. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Holmes, Christopher J.; Pantel, Jelena H.; Schulz, Kimberly L.; Cáceres, Carla E. (2016). "Initial genetic diversity enhances population establishment and alters genetic structuring of a newly established Daphnia metapopulation". Molecular Ecology. 25 (14): 3299–3308. doi:10.1111/mec.13672. ISSN 1365-294X. PMID 27135775. S2CID 206183458.
- ^ Cáceres, Carla E.; Soluk, Daniel A. (1 May 2002). "Blowing in the wind: a field test of overland dispersal and colonization by aquatic invertebrates". Oecologia. 131 (3): 402–408. Bibcode:2002Oecol.131..402C. doi:10.1007/s00442-002-0897-5. ISSN 1432-1939. PMID 28547712. S2CID 9941895.
- ^ Cáceres, Carla E.; Knight, Christine J.; Hall, Spencer R. (2009). "Predator–spreaders: Predation can enhance parasite success in a planktonic host–parasite system". Ecology. 90 (10): 2850–2858. doi:10.1890/08-2154.1. ISSN 1939-9170. PMID 19886493.
- ^ Fryling, Kevin (2018-08-16). "IU study suggests key factor is absent in disease-forecasting models". News at IU. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Shocket, Marta S.; Vergara, Daniela; Sickbert, Andrew J.; Walsman, Jason M.; Strauss, Alexander T.; Hite, Jessica L.; Duffy, Meghan A.; Cáceres, Carla E.; Hall, Spencer R. (2018). "Parasite rearing and infection temperatures jointly influence disease transmission and shape seasonality of epidemics". Ecology. 99 (9): 1975–1987. doi:10.1002/ecy.2430. ISSN 1939-9170. PMID 29920661. S2CID 205780562.
- ^ Stewart Merrill, Tara E.; Rapti, Zoi; Cáceres, Carla E. (24 June 2021). "Host Controls of Within-Host Disease Dynamics: Insight from an Invertebrate System". The American Naturalist. 198 (3): 317–332. doi:10.1086/715355. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 34403315. S2CID 236234019.
- ^ "How plankton hold secrets to preventing pandemics". ScienceDaily.
- ^ Boulder, University of Colorado at (2021-05-25). "Infected Plankton Hold Secrets to Preventing Pandemics". SciTechDaily. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ Cáceres, Carla E. (19 August 1997). "Temporal variation, dormancy, and coexistence: A field test of the storage effect". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94 (17): 9171–9175. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.9171C. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.17.9171. PMC 23092. PMID 11038565.
- ^ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ "Inaugural ASLO Fellows". ASLO. 2015-11-16. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
- ^ June 1, Alison Mize on. "Ecological Society of America announces 2016 fellows – The Ecological Society of America".
- ^ "Historic Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org.
External links[]
- Carla Cáceres publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Cornell University alumni
- University of Illinois faculty
- Fellows of the Ecological Society of America
- University of Michigan alumni
- Women ecologists
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