Dr. Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe is a community ecologist specialized in microbial ecology. Her research focuses on the questions at the intersection between ecology, microbiology, statistics, genomics, and bioinformatics. She is interested by the host-microbe interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (mainly forest) but on the human gut ecosystem. She completed an undergraduate degree in Biology (2007-2010) at the Université Laval in Québec city, Canada. She then completed two Master's degrees, one in Terrestrial Ecology (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2010-2011) and one in Statistics (Polytechnica de Catalunya, 2011-2012) in Spain. She finally completed her PhD in Biology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2012-2017) in Canada. She recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta at the University of Calgary. She will start as an assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in January 2020.
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