Erika Edwards

Erika Jeannine Edwards farfesa ce a Jami'ar Yale da aka sani da aikinta kan juyin halitta na shuke-shuke. Ita ce kuma darakta na Marsh Botanical Garden .

 Ilimi da aiki 
Edwards tana da BS daga Jami'ar Stanford (1998) kuma ta sami Ph.D. daga Jami'an Yale  inda ta yi aiki a kan juyin halitta na Pereskia, nau'in cactus.  Bayan ta Ph.D. ta kasance mai bincike na postdoctoral a Jami'ar California a Santa Barbara kafin ta karbi matsayi a Jami'an Brown a matsayin mataimakiyar farfesa a 2007. A shekara ta 2017 ta koma Jami'ar Yale a matsayin farfesa da darakta na Marsh Botanical Garden . 

A cikin 2020 ta fara wa'adin ta a matsayin shugabar Society of Systematic Biologists . 

 Bincike 
Binciken Edwards yana mai da hankali kan abubuwan maye da juyin halittar C4 carbon fixation a cikin tsirrai. Bincikenta na farko ya ta'allaka ne akan Pereskia inda ta bincika ilimin halittar jiki  da matsayinsa a cikin tarihin juyin halitta na tsiron cactus .   Binciken da ta yi a cikin C4 carbon fixation ya bincika yadda sauyin yanayi ke canza rarraba ciyawa na C4 kuma ya bayyana cewa hanyar C4 carbon fixation yana ba shuke-shuke da amfani a cikin busassun wurare.  Binciken ta na gaba ya bi diddigin karuwar ciyawa na C4 tare da karuwa a cikin gandun daji na wurare masu zafi da savannas.  Edwards ya jagoranci ƙungiyar aiki wanda ya kafa phylogeny na ciyawa C4 kuma ya bayyana bambance-bambancen kwayoyin halitta a cikin nau'o'in ciyawa.   Ta yi amfani da canje-canje a siffar ganye don ayyana yadda tsire-tsire ke kashe albarkatun su yayin girma,   yayi nazarin martanin tsire-tsire ga canje-canje a cikin biome.  kuma yana kwatanta daidaitaccen juyin halitta na C4 photosynthesis da crassulacean acid metabolism .  

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 Kyaututtuka da girmamawa 
A cikin 2016, Edwards ta sami lambar yabo ta Farko ta Shugaban kasa don Masana kimiyya da Injiniyoyi (PECASE). 

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