Sally Leys
Sally Leys (Sally Penelope Leys) is a Canadian spongiologist. She is a professor of biology at the University of Alberta where she and her colleagues study sponges in all their aspects including ecology, physiology, their adaptations to a fluid environment and the evolution of sensory systems using sponges as their model organism. A current project is ''Evaluating ecosystem function, vulnerability, resilience, and ability to recover from multiple stressors''.She earned a B.Sc. in 1990 from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D from University of Victoria in 1996, entitled ''Cytoskeletal architecture, organelle transport, and impulse conduction in hexactinellid sponge syncytia'', followed by post-doctoral work in Barbados, in Marseille, and at the University of Queensland. Provided by Wikipedia
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