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Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe
Summary
I am a microbial ecologist specialized in host-microbe interactions and ecosystem functions. I am assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke since January 2020. I hold a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Applied Microbial Ecology. My research focuses on the questions at the intersection between ecology, microbiology, statistics, genomics, and bioinformatics. My interests are the host-microbe interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (mainly forest) but also in the human gut ecosystem. I completed an undergraduate degree in Biology (2007-2010) at the Université Laval in Québec city, Canada. I then completed two masters, one in Terrestrial Ecology (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2010-2011) and one in Statistics (Polytechnica de Catalunya, 2011-2012) in Spain. I finally completed my Ph.D. in Biology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2012-2017) in Canada. I recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary working on the influence of the human gut microbial communities on host immune system development and metabolism.
Biodiversity Bioinformatics Ecology Ecosystem Science Genetics Genomics Microbiology Plant Science Statistics
