Curriculum Vitae

Manja Peterson Holland

Yale University                                                                   Phone: (203) 432-5321

School of Forestry and Environmental Studies                     Fax: (203) 432-3929                    

370 Prospect St.                                                                Email: manja.holland@yale.edu       

New Haven, CT 06511 USA                                             Web: www.cbc.yale.edu/people/skelly           

EDUCATION

2003 -              Doctoral Program, Yale University  

School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Advisor: David Skelly

Candidacy Achieved April 20, 2005

1999 - 2003    M.S., Cornell University

Environmental Toxicology, Advisor: Mark Roberson

1994 - 1998    B.A., Carleton College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

                        Major: Biology

PUBLICATIONS

Holland, M.P., D.K. Skelly, M. Kashgarian, S.R. Bolden, L. Harrison, and M. Cappello. 2007. Echinostome infection in green frogs is stage and age dependent. Journal of Zoology 271:455-462.  Link

Skelly, D.K., S.R. Bolden, M.P. Holland, L.K. Freidenburg, N.A. Freidenfelds, and T.R. Malcolm. 2006. Urbanization and disease in amphibians in (S. Collinge and C. Ray, Editors) Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford University Press.

Holland, M.P., S.P. Bliss, K.A. Berghorn, and M.S. Roberson. 2004. A role for C/EBPb in the basal regulation of the Distal-less 3 gene promoter in placental cells. Endocrinology 145(3): 1096-1105.

Roberson M.S., M.P. Holland, and S.P. Bliss. 2003. C/EBP is involved in the basal regulation of the homeobox gene, distal-less 3, in choriocarcinoma and trophoblast cells. Biology of Reproduction 68: 42 Suppl. 1.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2007 - 2008    National Science Foundation,  Ultrasound Grant, $250,000 (PI: D. K. Skelly, Co-PI: M. P. Holland)

2006                Hixon Center for Urban Ecology Research Grant (Yale Uninversity) ($5000)

2005                Hixon Center for Urban Ecology Research Grant (Yale University) ($5000)

2005                Yale Center for Field Ecology Grant ($2000)

2005                Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Grant ($5000)

2004                American Museum of Natural History - Roosevelt Fund ($1200)

2004                Carpenter/Sperry/Mellon Grant ($500)

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

2005 - 2008     U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship

2005                Doctoral Qualifying Exam, passed with Distinction

2004                Center for Disease Control Graduate Fellowship in Vector-Borne Disease Ecology

1999 - 2003     National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Training Grant Award

1998                Honors, Comprehensive Exam (undergraduate thesis)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006                Teaching Assistant, Landscape Ecology, Yale University

2005                Teaching Assistant, Landscape Ecology, Yale University

2004                Teaching Assistant, Landscape Ecology, Yale University

                        Teaching Assistant, Ecology Seminar, Yale University

1997                Teaching Assistant, Microbiology, Carleton College

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

2006                Holland, M.P.  "The impact of an emerging urban-associated parasite on green frog tadpoles." EPA STAR Fellows Conference, Washington, D.C. 

2006                Holland, M.P. Mortality effects from an urban associated trematode parasite. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN

GUEST LECTURES

2006                Disease Ecology. Assessing Exposures to Environmental Stressors (EHS 508), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University

2006                Disease Ecology. Landscape Ecology (FES 760), School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

2006                Urbanization and the Impact of an Emerging Disease on Amphibians. Peter Hudson Research Group, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University

2005                Urbanization and the Impact of Emerging Disease on Amphibians. Yale-Myers Forest Research Seminar, Yale University.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

2007                Wildlife Disease Association, student member

2006 -              Ecological Society of America, student member

PEER REVIEWER

Oecologia