Dr. Erika Schielke

Erika Schielke graduated from Shenendehowa Central Schools and received her A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. She spent two years as a post-baccalaureate researcher at the National Labs in Los Alamos, NM, where she used mouse stem cells to study the function of genes involved in DNA repair, and to develop a test for influenza using flow cytometry. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University, where her research focused on how alewives affect lake food webs and mercury transfer among aquatic organisms. She spent a summer as a science radio reporter at KUNC in Greeley, Colorado as part of a fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of Science before returning to upstate New York. She has taught as an adjunct instructor at SUNY-Adirondack and is currently an Instructor in Biology at Skidmore College, where she primarily teaches Introductory Biology labs and Ecology of the Adirondacks.