Laura Wegener Parfrey

Laura Wegener Parfrey is a Canadian bioscientist, focusing on microbial ecology. , she is a Canada Research Chair in Protist Ecology at the University of British Columbia.
Her work has two distinct strands: the microbial ecology of the mammalian gut and coastal microbial ecosystems.
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, with a thesis entitled "Diversity of Eukaryotes and Their Genomes"