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Erika Crispo

Erika Crispo

Associate Professor

Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Biology

Location
  • @New York City
    One Pace Plaza W335
Office Hours
New York City

Biography


I came to Pace University from Canada in the Fall of 2012. I have always been interested in animals and nature, which led me to pursue graduate studies in 2002. I completed graduate work on guppies in Trinidad and cichlids in Uganda. I then went on to study minnows in Alberta for postdoctoral work. I continue to work on these systems while also delving into the study of organisms and environments in the New York area.

Education


PhD , McGill University , Montreal , 2010
Evolutionary Ecology

MS , McGill University , Montreal , 2004
Evolutionary Ecology

BS , University of Guelph , Guelph , 2002

Publications


Crispo, E. (2016). Evaluating Tools to Ameliorate Environmental Challenges: a Green Roofs Case Study.. Loren Byrne (Eds.), Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Springer.

Hamel, C. & Crispo, E. (2016). Morphology of pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus) is related to water body size. BIOS. Vol 87 (Issue 2) , pages 56-66.

Crispo, E. (2015, November). A new index to use in conjunction with the h-index, to account for an author's relative contribution to publications with high impact. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Vol 66 (Issue 11) , pages 2381–2383 .

PRESENTATIONS


Crispo, E. (2015, October 10). Warwick retreat. Designer Populations: Adaptation to Anthropogenic Stressors. Dyson Society of Fellows, Warwick, NY

Crispo, E., Hussain, N., Rodriguez, S., Pavey, S. A., Tunna, H., Jackson, L. & Rogers, S. (2015, June 30). Evolution 2015. Evolution of the MHC in response to aquatic pollution in a riverine cyprinid fish, the longnose dace. Society for the Study of Evolution; American Society of Naturalists; Society for Systematic Biologists, Guaruja, Brazil

Buraei, Z., Marcello, M., Strahs, D., Zuzga, D., Crispo, E. & Kelly, M. (2015, May). Development of a year-long, research-based laboratory integrated within core genetics and cellular & molecular biology courses.. American Society of Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators, Austin, TX

Crispo, E. & Hussain, N. (2015, April 22). 3rd Annual Pace-Wide Research Day. Evaluating MHC evolution in response to pollution in longnose dace. Pace University, New York City

Crispo, E. (2015, April 1). The 'omics of adaptation to hypoxia in African cichlid fish. New York University, New York City

Hussain, N. & Crispo, E. (2015, March 8). Dyson Society of Fellows. Evaluating MHC evolution in response to pollution in longnose dace. Pace University, New York City

RESEARCH INTEREST


My research is at the interface of molecular ecology and ecological genetics. That is, I use molecular tools to understand ecology, and I study how genomes evolve in response to the environment. More specifically, I am interested in how freshwater fish populations adapt to environmental stressors, including hypoxia and pollution. I am most interested in questions revolving around the role of phenotypic plasticity in adaptation, and how phenotypic plasticity evolves, through examination at both the molecular and phenotypic levels.

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