Vivian Dayeh

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.

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

• 2004 Ph.D. Biology, Waterloo, Canada
• 2001 M.Sc. Biology, Waterloo, Canada
• 1999 B.Sc. Biology, Waterloo, Canada

• 2024 Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) Service Award
• 2023 Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) President’s Award
• 2023 Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) Service Award
• 2021 Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) Fellow Award
• 2018 Professor Jack Carlson Teaching Excellence Award
• 2017 Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB) Distinguished Service Award
• 2017 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
• 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

• Biology Teaching Fellow
• Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB), Board Member
• Instructional Skills Workshop Facilitator

• Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB)
• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

• BIOL 130 - Introductory Cell Biology
  • Taught in 2024
• BIOL 201 - Human Anatomy
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• BIOL 211 - Introductory Vertebrate Zoology
  • Taught in 2019
• BIOL 273 - Principles of Human Physiology 1
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• BIOL 301 - Human Anatomy
  • Taught in 2019
• BIOL 354 - Environmental Toxicology 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• BIOL 483 - Animal Cell Biotechnology
  • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Pumputis, P.G., Braley, E., Hamilton, M.E., Dayeh, V.R., Lee, L.E.J., and Bols N.C. (2022). Integrity and wound healing of rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cell sheets at hypo-, normo-, and hyper-thermic temperatures. Journal of Thermal Biology. 103: 103147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2021.103147
• Pumputis, Dayeh, V.R., Lee, L.E.J., Hamilton, M.E., Liu, Z., Viththiyapaskaran, S., and Bols N.C. (2020). Beneficial and detrimental effects of the phytochemical naringenin on rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cells. Journal of Functional Foods. 64: 103653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2019.103653
• Pumputis, Dayeh, V.R., Lee, L.E.J., Pha, P.H., Liu, Z., Viththiyapaskaran, S., and Bols N.C. (2018).Responses of rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cells to different kinds of nutritional deprivation. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 44: 1197-1214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-018-0511-3
• Bols, N.C., Pham, P.H., Dayeh, V.R., and Lee, L.E.J. (2017). Invitromatics, invitrome, and invitroomics: introduction of three new terms for in vitro biology and illustration of their use with the cell lines from rainbow trout. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Animal. 53: 383-405. doi.org/10.1007/s11626-017-0142-5
• 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: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=LU48QAsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.