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Dr. Tucker CambridgeMy research uses molecular ecology to explore how individual organisms respond to environmental stressors, and I am broadly interested in assessing the ecological, and evolutionary consequences of responding to and regulating stress, and mechanism of plasticity. I focus on two amphibian model systems in my work. I study developmental plasticity during amphibian metamorphosis and using full transcriptome sequencing, I explore how gene expression shapes the physiological stress response and drives corresponding phenotypic plasticity. I also study infection by the amphibian fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and how the amphibian skin microbiome can respond protectively to disease through shifts in community composition and the recruitment of pathogen-inhibiting microbial symbionts. In my post-doctoral research, I am focusing on leveraging conservation genomics and environmental transcriptomics to better understand long-term population dynamics of the salamander complex on Pelee island.
Selected publications Cambridge, T., Donaldson, M.E., Kerr, L.R., Lesbarrères, D., Longhi, J.N., Row, J.R., Saville, B.J., Murray, D.L. 2025. Differential gene expression mediates physiological responses to perceived predation risk in a developmentally plastic vertebrate, the northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1539161. Education Ph.D. Environmental and Life Sciences – Trent University 2025 M.Sc. Biological Sciences - Western Kentucky University 2018 B.A Biology - Skidmore College 2014 Contact [email protected] |