Laura Wegener Parfrey is a Canadian bioscientist, focusing on microbial ecology. As of 2014[update], she is a Canada Research Chair in Protist Ecology at the University of British Columbia.[2]
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Academic background | |
Education | BS, 2004, University at Albany, SUNY PhD, 2011, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Thesis | Diversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes (2011) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Colorado University of British Columbia[1] |
Her work has two distinct strands:[1] the microbial ecology of the mammalian gut[3][4][5][6] and coastal microbial ecosystems.[7][8]
Wegener Parfrey earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the University at Albany, SUNY and her PhD in 2011 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst,[1] with a thesis entitled Diversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes[9]
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