Laura Wegener Parfrey

Laura Wegener Parfrey
Academic background
EducationBS, 2004, University at Albany, SUNY
PhD, 2011, University of Massachusetts Amherst
ThesisDiversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes (2011)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado
University of British Columbia[1]
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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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "LAURA WEGENER PARFREY BIO". botany.ubc.ca. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "UBC gets $11.6M boost for 16 Canada Research Chairs". news.ubc.ca. October 17, 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Jose C. Clemente; Luke K. Ursell; Parfrey LW; Rob Knight (16 March 2012). "The impact of the gut microbiota on human health: an integrative view". Cell. 148 (6): 1258–70. doi:10.1016/J.CELL.2012.01.035. ISSN 0092-8674. PMC 5050011. PMID 22424233. Wikidata Q29617446.
  4. ^ Allison E. Mann; Florent Mazel; Matthew A Lemay; et al. (12 November 2019). "Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut". The ISME Journal. 14 (2): 609–622. doi:10.1038/S41396-019-0551-4. ISSN 1751-7362. PMC 6976604. PMID 31719654. Wikidata Q79562047.
  5. ^ Pascale Vonaesch; Evan Morien; Lova Andrianonimiadana; et al. (4 September 2018). "Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115 (36): E8489 – E8498. doi:10.1073/PNAS.1806573115. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 6130352. PMID 30126990. Wikidata Q62489043.
  6. ^ Laura Wegener Parfrey; Milan Jirků; Radek Šíma; Marie Jalovecká; Bohumil Sak; Karina Grigore; Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková (3 August 2017). "A benign helminth alters the host immune system and the gut microbiota in a rat model system". PLOS One. 12 (8): e0182205. doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0182205. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5542714. PMID 28771620. Wikidata Q40108282.
  7. ^ Bianca Trevizan Segovia; Rhea Sanders-Smith; Emily M Adamczyk; Coreen Forbes; Margot Hessing-Lewis; Mary I O'Connor; Laura Wegener Parfrey (16 October 2020). "Microeukaryotic Communities Associated with the Seagrass Zostera marina are Spatially Structured". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. doi:10.1111/JEU.12827. ISSN 1066-5234. PMID 33065761. Wikidata Q100684160.
  8. ^ Matthew A Lemay; Patrick T Martone; Patrick J Keeling; Jenn M Burt; Kira A Krumhansl; Rhea D Sanders; Laura Wegener Parfrey (10 November 2017). "Sympatric kelp species share a large portion of their surface bacterial communities". Environmental Microbiology. 20 (2): 658–670. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13993. ISSN 1462-2912. PMID 29124859. Wikidata Q46264164.
  9. ^ Wegener Parfrey, Laura (2011-02-01). Diversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes. Open Access Dissertations (Thesis). doi:10.7275/1925017.

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