Tim Korpita
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I am a graduate student in the McKenzie Lab in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I study microbial communities and amphibian conservation.
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About ME
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I graduated from Tufts University in 2012 with a BS in Biology. During my time there, I completed an honors thesis in the lab of Dr. Colin Orians. After Tufts, I spent four years teaching high school science in Brooklyn, New York, while earning a MA in teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education. I taught AP Biology and developed curriculum for new courses such as Urban Ecology and Plant Biology. Since then, I have been working in the lab of Dr. Valerie McKenzie at CU Boulder. I work on a variety of projects in the lab, mostly related to our efforts to develop conservation tools to mitigate the effects of the emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, on amphibians. Right now, I mainly work with the Boreal toad, a high elevation amphibian whose populations are declining sharply.
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Research Projects
Anti-Bd Probiotic Treatments |
Amphibian Mucus Chemistry and The Skin Microbiome |
Captivity and the Animal Microbiome |
email: timothy.korpita@colorado.edu
