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
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through ...
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.
References
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Canadian women scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni
University of Victoria alumni