Vivian R. Dayeh

Continuing Lecturer, Undergraduate Advisor (Biomedical Sciences, Medical Physiology Minor, Biotech Technician Diploma)

Viviane Dayeh Vivian Dayeh’s focus is on undergraduate teaching in physiology, human anatomy and zoology. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and professional performance, including the University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award twice in 2015 and 2006, the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teacher Award in 2011, and the Excellence in Science Teaching Award in 2010.

Undergraduate Advisor (Biomedical Sciences)

Contact information
Office: B1 276A
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 37582
Email: vrdayeh@uwaterloo.ca

Expertise

Toxicology
Animal cell culture
Cell biology
Animal physiology

Research

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.

Teaching

Dr. Dayeh teaches numerous undergraduate courses.

Current courses

BIOL 201, Human Anatomy
BIOL 273, Principles of Human Physiology 1
BIOL 354, Environmental Toxicology 1
BIOL 483, Animal Cell Biotechnology

Other courses have included

BIOL 130, Introductory Cell Biology
BIOL 211, Vertebrate Zoology
BIOL 308, Principles of Molecular Biology

Highlighted Publications

Recent publications include

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.