Dr. Laura Wegener Parfrey

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Education
  • Postdoc, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 2011-2013
  • Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2011
  • B.S., State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, U.S.A., 2004

Dr. Laura Wegener Parfrey is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada (UBC). Her research focuses on Eukaryotic microbial ecology in coastal environments; Eukaryotes in the microbiome.

Excerpt from UBC profile:
"My lab studies communities of microbial eukaryotes (protists) with the goal of understanding their diversity and distribution across environments. Eukaryotes, which include the familiar plants, animals, and fungi, are incredibly diverse and consist of many microbial lineages of amoebae, flagellates, ciliates, algae, and parasites. We use high-throughput sequencing to characterize microbial communities. Our analyses use a phylogenetic framework of the eukaryotic tree of life to gain an evolutionary perspective on microbial community diversity."

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Wegener Parfrey has published the following:

Habura, A., L. Wegener, and S. S. Bowser. 2004. Foraminiferal evolution as revealed by beta-tubulin data. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36: 400.

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