{"id":158,"date":"2018-08-17T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belden.biol.vt.edu\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2018-08-17T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:19:30","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Belden Lab at Virginia Tech we primarily study community ecology, with a focus on understanding how complex communities influence disease dynamics in natural systems.\u00a0 Most of our work has focused on addressing these questions in the symbiotic microbial communities that reside on amphibian skin and in communities of freshwater trematode parasites.\u00a0 However, our work on symbiotic microbes has expanded in recent years to include some new and exciting systems, including song birds, honey bees and wheat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belden.biol.vt.edu\/?attachment_id=179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179\" src=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7620-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7620-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7620.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belden Lab, summer 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Belden Lab at Virginia Tech we primarily study community ecology, with a focus on understanding how complex communities influence disease dynamics in natural systems.\u00a0 Most of our work has focused on addressing these questions in the symbiotic microbial communities that reside on amphibian skin and in communities of freshwater trematode parasites.\u00a0 However, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}