Zuania Colón-Piñeiro

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Zuania is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biology and the Department of Natural History at the University of Florida. She integrates ecology, physiology, and morphology to understand amphibian responses to environmental changes and diseases.

She uses field observations, laboratory experiments, museum specimens, and mathematical models to disentangle energy trade-offs among physiological processes, such as growth, reproduction, and immunity. She is particularly interested in differences in the response to pathogens among individuals and how those differences can scale up to infection and population dynamics.

During her NSF-PRFB fellowship sponsored by Ana V. Longo, Dave Blackburn, and Hannah Vander Zanden, she will disentangle how nutritional provisioning from amphibians with different reproductive modes responds to a changing world.

Experience

  • 2025–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, NSF-PRFB - University of Florida

Education

  • 2025 
    University of Florida, Doctor in Philosophy
  • 2017 
    University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, Master in Science
  • 2009 
    University of Puerto Rico - Bayamón, Bechelor in Science

Publications

  • 2024
    A dataset of acous- tic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, Scientific Data
  • 2023
    Ontogeny drives shifts in skin bacterial communities in facultatively paedomorphic salamanders, Microbiology
  • 2022
    Arboreal foraging in the Eastern narrow-mouthed toad, Gastrophryne carolinensis (Anura: Microhylidae), in North-Central Florida, Herpetology Notes
  • 2021
    Un llamado a 528 voces: Oportunidades de investigación con los sonidos de los mamíferos colombianos, Caldasia
  • 2021
    Avifauna del interfluvio de la cuenca media Caquetá-Putumayo (Japurá-Içá), al sur de la Amazonia colombiana y su respuesta a la huella humana, Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
  • 2021
    Passive acoustic sampling data of the Colección de Sonidos Ambientales Mauricio Álvarez-Rebolledo - Instituto Humboldt (IAvH-CSA) during 2018 and 2019 in Colombia, Data in Brief
  • 2021
    Demography and shell use of the terres- trial hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus Fabricius, 1787 (Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae) in two marine protected areas in Puerto Rico, Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • 2021
    Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment, Biological Conservation
  • 2020
    First record of Rufous-thighed Kite Harpagus diodon in Colombia, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
  • 2020
    Dataset on audio records of animals from the northeast Andes of Colombia I: The bird sounds of Boyacá Department, Data in Brief
  • 2019
    The advertisement call of Allobates niputidea (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia, Zootaxa
  • 2018
    Eleutherodactylus antillensis (Red-eyed Coqui) Predation, Herpetological Review
  • 2017
    Retrofitting rodents housing for captive breeding of direct developing frogs Eleutherodactylus coqui and E. antillensis: from troubleshooting to monitoring, Herpetological Review

Grants and Contracts

  • 2025
    Rules of Life: Characterizing maternal nutritional profiles to understand reproduction-immunity tradeoffs in amphibians
    Role:
    DBI 2508111
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation
  • 2024
    American Dissertation Fellowship
    Role:
    AAUW 7223748
    Funding Source:
    American Association of University Women

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