Catarina Dias Coutinho

Catarina D. Coutinho is conducting a Ph.D. in Biology by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon starting in 2023 within the Freshwater and Invasion Biology research group. She is conducting the project "Understanding susceptibility of multi-host amphibian communities to sequential invasions of emerging pathogens", under the supervision of Gonçalo M. Rosa (CE3C/IoZ) and Rui Rebelo (CE3C/FCUL). Her project aims at investigating the constituent parts of emergent coinfection dynamics: pathogen establishment and disease emergence. For this, she will use (multi)host amphibians communities and the two emerging infectious pathogens linked to catastrophic declines worldwide (chytrid fungus and ranavirus).