Vivian R. Dayeh

• Toxicology
• Animal cell culture
• Cell biology
• Animal physiology

Dr. Dayeh's primary focus is on undergraduate teaching and joined the Department of Biology in 2004 as a full-time lecturer. Dr. Dayeh's research interests are in cellular toxicology and development of in vitro methodology. Her previous research investigated the use of animal cell cultures and protozoa as alternatives to the use of whole organisms in toxicology and the effects of different classes of toxicants at the cellular level.

Dr. Dayeh teaches numerous undergraduate courses.

Current courses

• BIOL 211, Vertebrate Zoology
• BIOL 273, Principles of Human Physiology 1
• BIOL 301, Human Anatomy
• BIOL 483, Animal Cell Biotechnology

Other courses have included

• BIOL 130, Introductory Cell Biology
• BIOL 308, Principles of Molecular Biology
• BIOL 354, Environmental Toxicology 1

Recent publications include

• Dayeh, V.R., Bols, N.C., Tanneberger, K., Schirmer, K. and Lee, L.E.J. (2013). The Use of Fish-Derived Cell Lines for Investigation of Environmental Contaminants: An Update Following OECD's Fish Toxicity Testing Framework No. 171. In: Current Protocols in Toxicology. John Wiley & Sons. New York, NY, USA. 56:1.5.1–1.5.20.
• Lee, L.E.J., Dayeh, V.R., Schirmer, K., and Bols, N.C. (2009). Applications and potential uses of fish gill cell lines: examples with RTgill-W1. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Animal. 45: 127-134.
• Dayeh, V.R., Schirmer, K., and Bols, N.C. (2009). Ammonia-containing industrial effluents lethal to rainbow trout vacuolization and neutral red uptake in the rainbow trout gill cell line, RTgill-W1. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals. 37: 77-87.

• Dayeh, V.R., Chow, S.L., Schirmer, K., Lynn, D.H. and Bols, N.C. (2004). Evaluating the toxicity of Triton X-100 to protozoan, fish and mammalian cells using fluorescent dyes as indicators of cell viability

Please see Vivian Dayeh’s Google Scholar profile for a current list of her peer-reviewed articles.

• 2015 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
• 2011 University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA)
• 2010 Excellence in Science Teaching Award (ESTA)
• 2006 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
• 2006 Professor Jack Carlson Teaching Excellence Award

• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
• Society of in Vitro Biology (SIVB), Membership chair
• Instructional Skills Workshop Facilitator

2004 PhD Biology, University of Waterloo

2001 MSc Biology, University of Waterloo

1999 BSc Biology, University of Waterloo