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 Service Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2023 President’s Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2023 Service Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2021 Fellow Award, Society for In Vitro Biology. Awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to the field of in vitro biology and service to the society.
• 2021 Service Award, Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB)
• 2020 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2018 Jack Carlson Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo
• 2017 Distinguished Service Award, Society for In Vitro Biology. For outstanding service to the society.
• 2017 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2014 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Waterloo
• 2011 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2010 Excellence in Science Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
• 2006 Outstanding Performance Award, University of Waterloo
• 2006 Jack Carlson Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo
• 2003-4 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Province of Ontario
• 2003 Best Ph.D. oral presentation “Protozoa and fish cells as alternatives to fish in water quality testing”, Biology Graduate Symposium, University of Waterloo
• 2003 Best oral presentation in the theme of Environment. Title: “Fishing in a Petri dish: The search for alternatives”, 3rd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, University of Waterloo
• 2003 First place poster presentation. Title: “Developing rapid toxicity tests with the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila that utilize 96 microwell filter plates”, 30th Annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop
• 2003 Graduate Student Conference Travel Award , Centre for Research in Earth & Space Technology
• 2003 Joseph F. Morgan Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2003 Student Travel Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2002 Honor B. Fell Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2002 Joseph F. Morgan Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2002 Student Travel Award, Society for In Vitro Biology
• 2002 Provost’s Graduate Women’s Incentive Fund Scholarship, University of Waterloo
• 2001 Student Travel Award, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• 2000-4 Graduate Scholarship awarded seven separate occasions, University of Waterloo

• 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 273 - Principles of Human Physiology 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• BIOL 354 - Environmental Toxicology 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• BIOL 483 - Animal Cell Biotechnology
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

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

• Dayeh, V.R., Solhaug, A., Hamilton, M.E., Linton, L.E., Lee, L.E.J., and Bols., N.C. (2025). The impact of beauvericin on rainbow trout intestinal epithelial cells at different temperatures and dosing methods. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Animal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-025-01014-5
• 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.