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Revision as of 15:22, 13 October 2008
Contents
Current Position
PhD. student
PEET trainee
Advisor: Louise Lewis
Office: BioPharm 311A
Phone: (860) 486-2289
E-mail: karolina.fucikova@uconn.edu
Dissertation Research: Systematics of Green Coccoid Algae: the Genus Bracteacoccus
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
Research Interests
- Systematics of coccoid green algae
- Desmid taxonomy
- Subaerophytic algae; subaerial habitats
- Algae from extreme environments
Publications
- Johansen, J.R., K. Fučíková, M.H. Fitzpatrick, and R.L. Lowe. 2005. The red algal genus Rhodospora (Bangiophycidae, Rhodophyta): first report from North America. Journal of Phycology 41:1281-1283.
- Johansen, J.R., R. L. Lowe, S. Carty, K. Fučiková, C. E. Olsen, M. H. Fitzpatrick, J. A. Ress, and P. C. Furey. 2007. New Algal Species Records for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with an Annotated Checklist of all Reported Algal Taxa for The Park. Southeastern Naturalist 6(sp1):99-134.
- Johansen, J.R., C.E. Olsen, R.L. Lowe, K. Fučíková & D.A. Casamatta. 2008. Leptolyngbya species from selected seep walls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Algological Studies 126:21-36.
- Fučíková, K. & J. Kaštovský. In press. Vincularia roraimae (Zygnematophyceae, Desmidiales), gen. et sp. nov. from the top of Mt. Roraima, Venezuela. Nova Hedwigia, in press.
- Fučíková, K., J.D. Hall, J.R. Johansen & R. Lowe. 2008. Bibliotheca Phycologica 113: Desmid Flora of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. J. Cramer, Berlin, Stuttgart. 59 pp.
- Johansen, J.R., L. Kováčik, D.A. Casamatta, K. Fučíková & J. Kaštovský. In review. Utility of 16S-23S ITS sequence and secondary structure for recognition of intrageneric and intergeneric limits within cyanobacterial taxa: Leptolyngbya corticola sp. nov. (Pseudanabaenaceae, Cyanobacteria). European Journal of Phycology. In review.
Teaching and Mentoring
Fall 2005 - Limnology at John Carroll University
Summer 2007 - Summer Research Program for Minority Students
Fall 2007 - BIOL 108 at UConn
Fall 2008 - EEB 3250/5250 at UConn - see Biology of the Algae Lab
Other Interests
COO of Green Grads
