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]

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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. 1 2 3 "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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  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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Laura Wegener Parfrey
Academic background
EducationBS, 2004, University at Albany, SUNY
PhD, 2011, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thesis Diversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes  (2011)
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