Christine Edwards
Stephen and Camilla Brauer Conservation Geneticist, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Primary subject of interest: Conservation genetics, molecular systematics, phylogeography, DNA metabarcoding, quantitative genetics, understanding response of plants to environmental stress (focusing mainly on plants of conservation concern)
Primary geographic interest: Americas and islands of the western Indian Ocean (Madagascar and the Mascarenes)
LEC Seed Grant Projects
- Biodiversity of Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Sangamon River (Illinois): Community Science in Action
- Integrating Stable Isotopes and DNA Metabarcoding of Cave Guano to Develop a Unique Paleoenvironmental Archive for the Humid Tropics
- The Search for Critically Endangered Possibly Extinct Ecuadorean Frogs using eDNA