Karolina Szlapa

Karolina Szlapa

Title/Position
PhD student
Biology (EEB) - Steven Short Supervisor

Courses (TA): BIO205, BIO153

Awards:

  • Fraser-Crawford Scholarship for High Academic Achievement, Trinity College in the University of Toronto (2016)
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Award, University of Toronto (2017)
  • Chancellor’s Scholarship for High Academic Achievement, Trinity College in the University of Toronto (2017)
  • NSERC USRA (2018)

Research: Aquatic viruses, freshwater ecosystems, algae, limnology

Publications:

  1. Muntasir Kamal, Houtan Moshiri, Lilia Magomedova, Duhyun Han, Ken C.Q. Nguyen, May Yeo, Jessica Knox, Rachel Bagg, Amy M. Won, Karolina Szlapa, Christopher M. Yip, Carolyn L. Cummins , David H. Hall & Peter J. Roy. The marginal cells of the Caenorhabditis elegans pharynx scavenge cholesterol and other hydrophobic small molecules. Nature Communications 10: 3938 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11908-0