Julia A. Packer

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I am an M. Sc. Student in the Biology Department at Dalhousie University, supervised by Alastair Simpson. I am interested in all things protist, especially at the genomic level. I am currently studying deep-phylogenetic relationships of novel protist lineages.

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Feb 2, 2025 Happy 2025! My first paper describing two novel free-living kinetoplastids was just published in J. Euk. Micro.! A big thanks to my collaborators and everyone involved. See the paper here.

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