Difference between revisions of "Karolina Fučíková"
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=== Current Position === | === Current Position === | ||
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+ | ===Previous Education === | ||
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+ | University of Connecticut <br> | ||
+ | Storrs, CT <br> | ||
[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5451 PEET] trainee <br> | [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5451 PEET] trainee <br> | ||
Advisor: [[Louise Lewis]]<br> | Advisor: [[Louise Lewis]]<br> | ||
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Phone: (860) 486-1811<br> | Phone: (860) 486-1811<br> | ||
E-mail: karolina.fucikova@uconn.edu <br> | E-mail: karolina.fucikova@uconn.edu <br> | ||
− | Dissertation Research: [[Systematics of Green Coccoid Algae: the Genus Bracteacoccus]] | + | Dissertation: Monograph of the Genus ''Bracteacoccus'' (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae), with Systematic Clarification of Taxonomically Related Genera <br> |
+ | Dissertation Research Page: [[Systematics of Green Coccoid Algae: the Genus Bracteacoccus]] | ||
[[Image:vodnik.jpg|thumb|right|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]] | [[Image:vodnik.jpg|thumb|right|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]] | ||
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MS: <br> | MS: <br> | ||
2004 - 2006 <br> | 2004 - 2006 <br> | ||
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* 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. | ||
+ | * Tippery, N.P., K. Fučíková, P.O. Lewis & L.A. Lewis. In revision. Probing the monophyly of the directly opposite flagellar apparatus group in Chlorophyceae using data from five genes. Journal of Phycology. | ||
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Revision as of 14:44, 31 December 2011
Contents
Current Position
Postdoctoral associate
Previous Education
Ph.D.:
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
PEET trainee
Advisor: Louise Lewis
Office: BioPharm 311A
Phone: (860) 486-1811
E-mail: karolina.fucikova@uconn.edu
Dissertation: Monograph of the Genus Bracteacoccus (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae), with Systematic Clarification of Taxonomically Related Genera
Dissertation Research Page: Systematics of Green Coccoid Algae: the Genus Bracteacoccus
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 & L.A. Lewis. Accepted. Intersection of Chlorella, Muriella, and Bracteacoccus: Resurrecting the genus Chromochloris Kol & Chodat (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta). Fottea.
- Tippery, N.P., K. Fučíková, P.O. Lewis & L.A. Lewis. In revision. Probing the monophyly of the directly opposite flagellar apparatus group in Chlorophyceae using data from five genes. Journal of Phycology.
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)