Current Lab Members |
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Ryan Gawryluk, Assistant Professor. Hi! I'm an Assistant Professor in the Biology department at UVic. I am interested in a lot of different things, but most centre around the diversity, metabolism, organelles, and evolution of microbial eukaryotes ("protists"), along with their symbiotic interactions with prokaryotes.
I am involved in teaching a variety of courses, including BIOL230 (Genetics), BIOL360 (Cell Biology), BIOL361 (Molecular Genetics & Genomics), and BIOL362 (Molecular Techniques)
Outside of work, I enjoy spending lots of time with my family, looking through tide pools, camping, and sports.
I am involved in teaching a variety of courses, including BIOL230 (Genetics), BIOL360 (Cell Biology), BIOL361 (Molecular Genetics & Genomics), and BIOL362 (Molecular Techniques)
Outside of work, I enjoy spending lots of time with my family, looking through tide pools, camping, and sports.
Viktorie Kolátková, PhD student. Viki joined the lab to pursue her Ph.D. degree at UVic in September 2020. She comes from the Czech Republic, where she completed both her B.Sc. and M.Sc. studies at Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses primarily on the diversity of phytomyxid parasites infecting marine primary producers, but her scientific interests reach far beyond this topic. Currently, she is looking into the diversity of seagrass and algal pathogens in the Salish Sea surrounding Vancouver Island. Before arriving to Canada, Viki also spent a semester at the University of Balearic Islands (Spain) and participated in many sampling expeditions all over the world. If she’s not in the lab, you will most likely find her diving, hiking, sea-kayaking or discovering local wildlife in some other way.
Maggie Lawton, PhD student. Maggie completed her BSc in Biology and Biochemistry at Dalhousie University, and has recently switched from an MSc to a PhD in the Gawryluk lab. She is working on a variety of community-based and single-cell approaches to understand the diversity, evolution, and metabolism of microbes inhabiting marine oxygen minimum zones.
Rebecca Crawford, MSc student (co-supervised with Diana Varela). Rebecca has research interests in microbial diversity and interactions in arctic and subarctic oceans.
Current Projects:
Oceans of Biodiversity - Protist diversity . This project is aimed at studying phytoplankton diversity in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as a part of the joint Oceans of Biodiversity Project between the University of Victoria, Oceans Networks Canada, the Haiki institute, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This branch of the project works to further uncover phytoplankton diversity through the use of high through-put sequencing technologies. Taxa will be analysed alongside oceanographic data and genetic surveys collected from different trophic levels by other branches of the project to better understand marine biodiversity and food web dynamics in this region as a whole.
Current Projects:
Oceans of Biodiversity - Protist diversity . This project is aimed at studying phytoplankton diversity in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as a part of the joint Oceans of Biodiversity Project between the University of Victoria, Oceans Networks Canada, the Haiki institute, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. This branch of the project works to further uncover phytoplankton diversity through the use of high through-put sequencing technologies. Taxa will be analysed alongside oceanographic data and genetic surveys collected from different trophic levels by other branches of the project to better understand marine biodiversity and food web dynamics in this region as a whole.
Former Lab Members
Kara Ruff, NSERC USRA and JCURA student. Kara is a Biochemistry & Microbiology student, and is interested in investigating potential symbiotic relationships between bacteria and cellular slime molds (dictyostelids).
