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Elizabeth A. Edwards

Elizabeth A. Edwards

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
12199
World Ranking
11041
National Ranking
300

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Elizabeth A. Edwards is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant body of work spanning related subfields including Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers a range of key topics such as:

  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes," 2020, published in Nature Biotechnology
  • "Insights into origins and function of the unexplored majority of the reductive dehalogenase gene family as a result of genome assembly and ortholog group classification," 2020, published in Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • "Anaerobic Benzene Biodegradation Linked to the Growth of Highly Specific Bacterial Clades," 2021, published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Nanoscale zero-valent iron reduction coupled with anaerobic dechlorination to degrade hexachlorocyclohexane isomers in historically contaminated soil," 2020, published in Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Antibiotic resistome and microbial community structure during anaerobic co-digestion of food waste, paper and cardboard," 2020, published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Elizabeth A. Edwards include:

  • Line Lomheim
  • Minqing Ivy Yang
  • Camilla Nesbø
  • Courtney R. A. Toth
  • Olivia Bulka

Common venues for the scientist's publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Elizabeth A. Edwards received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012 for contributions acknowledged by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Fluorotelomer alcohol biodegradation yields poly- and perfluorinated acids.

    Mary Joyce A Dinglasan;Yun Ye;Elizabeth A Edwards;Scott A Mabury

  • Field demonstration of successful bioaugmentation to achieve dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to ethene.

    David W. Major;Michaye L McMaster;Evan E Cox;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi.

    Frank E. Löffler;Jun Yan;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Lorenz Adrian

  • Anaerobic degradation of toluene and xylene by aquifer microorganisms under sulfate-reducing conditions.

    E A Edwards;L E Wills;M Reinhard;D Grbić-Galić

  • Anaerobic degradation of toluene and o-xylene by a methanogenic consortium.

    E A Edwards;D Grbić-Galić

  • Comparison of anaerobic dechlorinating enrichment cultures maintained on tetrachloroethene, trichloroethene, cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride

    Melanie Duhamel;Stephan D. Wehr;Lawrence Yu;Homa Rizvi

  • Overview of organohalide-respiring bacteria and a proposal for a classification system for reductive dehalogenases

    Laura A. Hug;Farai Maphosa;David Leys;Frank E. Löffler;Frank E. Löffler

  • Complete mineralization of benzene by aquifer microorganisms under strictly anaerobic conditions.

    E A Edwards;D Grbić-Galić

  • Anaerobic Benzene Biodegradation Linked to Nitrate Reduction

    Siobhan M. Burland;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Carbon Isotope Fractionation during Microbial Dechlorination of Trichloroethene, cis-1,2-Dichloroethene, and Vinyl Chloride: Implications for Assessment of Natural Attenuation

    Y Bloom;R Aravena;Daniel Hunkeler;E Edwards

  • Harnessing microbial activities for environmental cleanup.

    Frank E Löffler;Elizabeth A Edwards

  • Characterization of a Highly Enriched Dehalococcoides-Containing Culture That Grows on Vinyl Chloride and Trichloroethene

    Melanie Duhamel;Kaiguo Mo;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Microbial composition of chlorinated ethene-degrading cultures dominated by Dehalococcoides.

    Melanie Duhamel;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Variability in carbon isotopic fractionation during biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes: implications for field applications.

    Gregory F. Slater;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Brent E. Sleep;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Carbon and hydrogen isotopic fractionation during anaerobic biodegradation of benzene.

    Silvia A. Mancini;Ania C. Ulrich;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume;Brent Sleep

  • Physiological and molecular characterization of anaerobic benzene-degrading mixed cultures.

    Ania C. Ulrich;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Molecular Characterization of a Toluene-Degrading Methanogenic Consortium

    Monica Ficker;Kirsten Krastel;Stephen Orlicky;Elizabeth Edwards

  • Growth and yields of dechlorinators, acetogens, and methanogens during reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and dihaloelimination of 1 ,2-dichloroethane.

    Melanie Duhamel;Elizabeth A Edwards

  • Monitoring Gene Expression in Mixed Microbial Communities by Using DNA Microarrays

    Philip Dennis;Elizabeth A. Edwards;Steven N. Liss;Roberta Fulthorpe

  • Biochemical and structural insights into enzymatic depolymerization of polylactic acid and other polyesters by microbial carboxylesterases

    Mahbod Hajighasemi;Boguslaw P. Nocek;Anatoli Tchigvintsev;Greg Brown

  • Multiple reductive-dehalogenase-homologous genes are simultaneously transcribed during dechlorination by dehalococcoides-containing cultures

    Alison S. Waller;Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown;Frank E. Löffler;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Carbon Isotope Fractionation during Anaerobic Biodegradation of Toluene: Implications for Intrinsic Bioremediation

    Jason M. E. Ahad;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Elizabeth A. Edwards;Greg F. Slater

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Barbara Sherwood Lollar University of Toronto
Brent E. Sleep
Brent E. Sleep University of Toronto
Georges Lacrampe-Couloume
Georges Lacrampe-Couloume University of Toronto
Alexander F. Yakunin
Alexander F. Yakunin Bangor University
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan University of Toronto
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Alexei Savchenko
Alexei Savchenko University of Calgary
Benjamin Brunner
Benjamin Brunner The University of Texas at El Paso
Paul J.R. Barton
Paul J.R. Barton Imperial College London

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