Dr. Manzitto-Tripp’s research seeks to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes shape origins of biodiversity and biodiversity distributions. In particular, her work emphasizes patterns that emerge from comparative analyses of species-rich lineages: such lineages provide repeated comparisons of evolutionary trends and outcomes, thus yielding predictive power regarding factors that constrain or facilitate the evolution of novelty (phenotypes, genotypes, distributions). Her research spans multiple time scales (tens of millions of years [between clades]; hundreds of thousands of years [sister species]), and domains of life (flowering plants, lichens). To achieve these goals, she draws from diverse sources of evidence including molecular phylogenomics, genetics, taxonomy, ecology, biochemistry, paleontology, anatomy, cytology, ecogeography, and climatology.
EBIO 3930 - Internship
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Provides course credit for upper-division students� experiential learning while employed in paid and non-paid positions associated with ecology and life sciences, including wildlife rehabilitation/reintroduction, STEM outreach/education, and lab/field research assistantships. Course credit dependent upon work hours. Repeatable for up to 6 total credit hours.
EBIO 4460 - Special Topics
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Summer 2019 / Summer 2023
Familiarizes students with specialized areas of biology. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisites: EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 and EBIO 1230 and EBIO 1240 (minimum grade C-). Same as EBIO 5460.
EBIO 4520 - Plant Systematics
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2021
Lect. and lab. Studies the principles and techniques of modern systematics of organisms, illustrated with examples from the plant kingdom, usually the angiosperms. Framework of course is evolutionary and ecological, as well as taxonomic. Same as EBIO 5520.
EBIO 4560 - The Lichen Biome
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Summer 2018 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021
Focuses on lichens as biologically diverse hubs of interactions, and will cover numerous dimensions of diversity within the symbiosis (algae, bacteria, and ecological and evolutionary relationships therein) and beyond it (diversity of lichen symbioses in nature, their functions, and conservation). Same as EBIO 5560
EBIO 4990 - EBIO Honors Thesis Research
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Spring 2018
To be taken during the final academic year prior to graduation. Consists of the final phase of honors research and thesis preparation under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Recommended prerequisites: minimum 3.3 GPA and a declared EBIO major and approval by departmental Honors program.
EBIO 5460 - Special Topics
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Summer 2019 / Summer 2023
Familiarizes students with specialized areas of biology. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as EBIO 4460.
EBIO 5520 - Plant Systematics
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2021
Explores principles and techniques in modern plant systematics from lichens and non-vascular plants to lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. Framework is evolutionary and ecological, with emphasis on taxonomy of major lineages and families of plants. No prerequisites, but coursework in evolutionary biology, genetics, phylogenetics and/or other botany classes is strongly encouraged. Same as EBIO 4520.
EBIO 5560 - The Lichen Biome
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Summer 2018 / Summer 2020
Focuses on lichens as biologically diverse hubs of interactions, and will cover numerous dimensions of diversity within the symbiosis (algae, bacteria, and ecological and evolutionary relationships therein) and beyond it (diversity of lichen symbioses in nature, their functions, and conservation). Same as EBIO 4560
EBIO 6950 - Master's Thesis
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Instructor consent required.
ENVS 5930 - Internship
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Summer 2023
Provides academically supervised opportunities for environmental studies majors to work in public and private organizations on projects related to the students' research and career goals, and to relate classroom theory to practice.
MUSM 5051 - Museum Collections Management
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Fall 2020 / Fall 2024
Deals specifically with curation and data management. Topics include acquisition practices and problems; organization, management, use and preventive conservation of collections; computer data management of collections.
MUSM 6950 - Master's Thesis
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
A thesis, which may be of a research, expository, critical or creative type, is required of every master's degree candidate under the thesis option. Department enforced prerequisites: MUSM 5011 and MUSM 5051 and one of the following: MUSM 5030 or MUSM 5031 or MUSM 5041.
