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* [http://uconn.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/novh/2011/00000093/F0020001/art00002 Fučíková, K., J.C. Rada, A. Lukešová & L.A. Lewis. 2011. Cryptic Diversity within the Genus ''Pseudomuriella'' Hanagata (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae, Sphaeropleales) Assessed Using Four Barcode Markers. Nova Hedwigia 93:29-46.]
 
* [http://uconn.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/novh/2011/00000093/F0020001/art00002 Fučíková, K., J.C. Rada, A. Lukešová & L.A. Lewis. 2011. Cryptic Diversity within the Genus ''Pseudomuriella'' Hanagata (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae, Sphaeropleales) Assessed Using Four Barcode Markers. Nova Hedwigia 93:29-46.]
  
* McManus, H.A., K. Fučíková, L.A. Lewis & P. Haugen. Accepted. Invasion of protein coding genes by green algal ribosomal group I introns. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.
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* [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790311004350 McManus, H.A., K. Fučíková, L.A. Lewis & P. Haugen. Accepted. Invasion of protein coding genes by green algal ribosomal group I introns. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution.]
  
 
* Fučíková, K & L.A. Lewis. Accepted. Intersection of ''Chlorella, Muriella'', and ''Bracteacoccus'': Resurrecting the genus ''Chromochloris'' Kol & Chodat (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Fottea.
 
* Fučíková, K & L.A. Lewis. Accepted. Intersection of ''Chlorella, Muriella'', and ''Bracteacoccus'': Resurrecting the genus ''Chromochloris'' Kol & Chodat (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Fottea.

Revision as of 11:24, 26 October 2011

My interests include long-distance ventures such as pursuing a PhD degree and running marathons
Euastrum bidentatum: grayscale illustration

Current Position

PhD. candidate
PEET trainee
Advisor: Louise Lewis
Office: BioPharm 311A
Phone: (860) 486-1811
E-mail: karolina.fucikova@uconn.edu
Dissertation Research: Systematics of Green Coccoid Algae: the Genus Bracteacoccus

Karolina Fučíková, age 3, dressed up as an algae-covered water ghost in good company - next to a girl dressed up as Amanita muscaria who probably did not become a mycologist later

Previous Education

MS:
2004 - 2006
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH

Participation in the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in the Great Smoky Mountains (ATBI)


Master's thesis: Algae and Cyanobacteria of Selected Subaerial Habitats in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, U.S.A., and Desmid Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Advisor: Jeff Johansen


Bc:
2001 - 2004
Jihočeská Univerzita
České Budějovice
Czech Republic
Bachelor's thesis: Microvegetation of the top of Roraima Tepui, with emphasis on the order Desmidiales.
Advisor: Jan "Hanys" Kaštovský

Spanish Atlantic coast, July 2006

Research Interests

  • Systematics of coccoid green algae
  • Desmid taxonomy
  • Subaerophytic algae; subaerial habitats
  • Algae from extreme environments
Netrium digitus: stippled line-cut illustration

Publications

  • Fučíková, K & L.A. Lewis. Accepted. Intersection of Chlorella, Muriella, and Bracteacoccus: Resurrecting the genus Chromochloris Kol & Chodat (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Fottea.



Teaching and Mentoring

Fall 2005 - Limnology at John Carroll University
Summer 2007 - Summer Research Program for Minority Students - Miracle Tali, and work-study undergraduate Chien Lo
Fall 2007 - BIOL 108 at UConn
Fall 2008 and 2010 - EEB 3250/5250 at UConn - see Biology of the Algae Lab
Fall 2008 - Spring 2010 - mentor for UConn undergraduate student Jared Rada (independent study)

Service and Leadership

2008 - 2010: COO of Green Grads
2008, 2009, 2010 - co-organizer of UConn's Give&Go program
2009 - COO of the EEB Graduate Student Association
2010 - 2011: CFO of the EEB Graduate Student Association
2010 - 2011: senator in the UConn Graduate Student Senate; member of the GSS Finance Committee
2009 - 2011: grad student representative for UConn's Environmental Policy Advisory Council (EPAC)