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Latest papers
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy differentially affects the fecal microbiota of dams and offspring.
Scientific reports · 2024
Manipulation of the seagrass-associated microbiome reduces disease severity.
Environmental microbiology · 2024
Stunted children display ectopic small intestinal colonization by oral bacteria, which cause lipid malabsorption in experimental models.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
Latest funding
- $160,000
Testing the role of microbial distribution and functional traits in the ecology and evolution of symbiosis
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Protist Ecology
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $400,000
Protist Ecology
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy differentially affects the fecal microbiota of dams and offspring.
Bodnar TS, Ainsworth-Cruickshank G, Billy V, Wegener Parfrey L, Weinberg J, Raineki C
Manipulation of the seagrass-associated microbiome reduces disease severity.
Graham OJ, Adamczyk EM, Schenk S, Dawkins P, Burke S, Chei E, Cisz K, Dayal S, Elstner J, Hausner ALP, Hughes T, Manglani O, McDonald M, Mikles C, Poslednik A, Vinton A, Wegener Parfrey L, Harvell CD
Stunted children display ectopic small intestinal colonization by oral bacteria, which cause lipid malabsorption in experimental models.
Vonaesch P, Araújo JR, Gody JC, Mbecko JR, Sanke H, Andrianonimiadana L, Naharimanananirina T, Ningatoloum SN, Vondo SS, Gondje PB, Rodriguez-Pozo A, Rakotondrainipiana M, Kandou KJE, Nestoret A, Kapel N, Djorie SG, Finlay BB, Wegener Parfrey L, Collard JM, Randremanana RV, Sansonetti PJ, Afribiota Investigators
Evidence for long-lasting alterations in the fecal microbiota following prenatal alcohol exposure.
Bodnar TS, Lee C, Wong A, Rubin I, Wegener Parfrey L, Weinberg J
Effects of forced taxonomic transitions on metabolic composition and function in microbial microcosms.
Louca S, Rubin IN, Madilao LL, Bohlmann J, Doebeli M, Wegener Parfrey L
Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut.
Mann AE, Mazel F, Lemay MA, Morien E, Billy V, Kowalewski M, Di Fiore A, Link A, Goldberg TL, Tecot S, Baden AL, Gomez A, Sauther ML, Cuozzo FP, Rice GAO, Dominy NJ, Stumpf R, Lewis RJ, Swedell L, Amato K, Wegener Parfrey L
EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution.
Del Campo J, Kolisko M, Boscaro V, Santoferrara LF, Nenarokov S, Massana R, Guillou L, Simpson A, Berney C, de Vargas C, Brown MW, Keeling PJ, Wegener Parfrey L
Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa.
Vonaesch P, Morien E, Andrianonimiadana L, Sanke H, Mbecko JR, Huus KE, Naharimanananirina T, Gondje BP, Nigatoloum SN, Vondo SS, Kaleb Kandou JE, Randremanana R, Rakotondrainipiana M, Mazel F, Djorie SG, Gody JC, Finlay BB, Rubbo PA, Wegener Parfrey L, Collard JM, Sansonetti PJ, Afribiota Investigators
Alternate life history phases of a common seaweed have distinct microbial surface communities.
Lemay MA, Martone PT, Hind KR, Lindstrom SC, Wegener Parfrey L
Identifying the etiology and pathophysiology underlying stunting and environmental enteropathy: study protocol of the AFRIBIOTA project.
Vonaesch P, Randremanana R, Gody JC, Collard JM, Giles-Vernick T, Doria M, Vigan-Womas I, Rubbo PA, Etienne A, Andriatahirintsoa EJ, Kapel N, Brown E, Huus KE, Duffy D, Finlay BB, Hasan M, Hunald FA, Robinson A, Manirakiza A, Wegener-Parfrey L, Vray M, Sansonetti PJ, AFRIBIOTA Investigators
Testing the role of microbial distribution and functional traits in the ecology and evolution of symbiosis
Principal investigators: Parfrey, Laura
Keywords: symbiosis; core microbiota; seaweeds; microbial ecology; ecological distribution; functional redundancy
Protist Ecology
Principal investigators: Wegener Parfrey, Laura
Protist Ecology
Principal investigators: Parfrey, Laura
Keywords: microbial ecology; symbiosis; epibiota; gut microbiome
Elucidating patterns and processes structuring protist biodiversity across salinity gradients
Principal investigators: Parfrey, Laura
Protist Ecology
Principal investigators: WegenerParfrey, Laura
Protist Ecology
Principal investigators: WegenerParfrey, Laura
Keywords: CRC
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Christopher Lee and Laura Wegener Parfrey: 1 shared paper
- Michael Doebeli and Laura Wegener Parfrey: 1 shared paper
- Alastair Simpson and Laura Wegener Parfrey: 1 shared paper
- Botany
- Biology
- Department of English Language and Literatures
- Department of Zoology at UBC
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