Donnabella Lacap-Bugler
molecular microbiologist in New Zealand (AUT)
Donnabella Castillo Lacap-Bugler (née Lacap) is a Filipino–New Zealand microbiologist and academic who is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in extremophiles, soil microbial ecology, and oral microorganisms.
Academic career
Lacap-Bugler completed a Bachelor of Science degree at St Paul University and a Master of Science degree at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. She went on to do a PhD titled Biodiversity and ecology of geothermal springs in the Philippines at the University of Hong Kong, supervised by Stephen Pointing. Lacap-Bugler joined the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology in 2015, becoming associate professor in 2019 and full professor in 2023.
Lacap-Bugler's research focus was initially on endophytic fungi on medicinal plants, and the molecular diversity of bacteria living in extreme environments during her postgraduate and postdoctoral work in Hong Kong. She led research into photosynthetic cyanobacteria in desert ecosystems in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, which may help in identifying traces of bacterial life in other extreme systems such as a Mars. More recently she has studied the microbial ecology of oral microorganisms and the link between oral pathology and systemic disease.
Lacap-Bugler is an associate investigator in the New Zealand's Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, where her students have researched the microbial communities in soils around kauri trees in the Waitākere Ranges Regional Park, and investigated their physicochemical makeup, looking to see if there are correlations with tree disease.
Selected works
Stephen B Pointing; Yuki Chan; Donnabella C Lacap; Maggie C.Y. Lau Vetter; Joel A Jurgens; Roberta L Farrell (2009). "Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert".
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