Laura Wegener Parfrey

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Laura Wegener Parfrey is a Canadian bioscientist, focusing on microbial ecology. As of 2014, she is a Canada Research Chair in Protist Ecology at the University of British Columbia.[2]

Her work has two distinct strands:[1] the microbial ecology of the mammalian gut[3][4][5][6] and coastal microbial ecosystems.[7][8]

Career

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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