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May 19th, 2009
Interview with Dr. Jane Wheeler
by Sue Wilde
“When I graduated, a Senior Fulbright-Hays Fellowship took me to Peru for what I thought would be a brief visit to look at llama and alpaca herding before returning to work in the Middle East. Obviously that did not happen and Peru and its camelids have been my life ever since.” … Read more
Jane Wheeler is Vice President for Research, CONOPA (Coordinadora de Investigaci ón y Desarrollo de Camélidos Sudamericanos), Lima, Perú. She holds degrees from American University, Cambridge University, and the University of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Paris. For more than 30 years she has conducted broad based research on the South American camelids.