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Manzitto-Tripp, Erin Anne

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  • 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.

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  • Plant Systematics, Tropical Biology, Lichenology, Biodiversity Inventory, Molecular Genetics and Evolution, Taxonomy, Nomenclature, Pollination Biology

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  • EBIO 3930 - Internship
    Primary Instructor - 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
    Primary Instructor - 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
    Primary Instructor - 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
    Primary Instructor - 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 4870 - Independent Research: Upper Division
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2024
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
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