Dr. Susan Kaminskyj XXX of 5
SUSAN GAIL WILLETS KAMINSKYJ
Address Department of Biology, Telephone +1 306 966-4422
University of Saskatchewan FAX +1 306 966-4461
112 Science Place E-mail
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada Website: www.usask.ca/biology/kaminskyj
Citizenship Canadian/British
Education
1989-1994 Ph. D., Dept. Biology, York U. Supervisor: Prof. I. B. Heath
“Integrated aspects of hyphal tip growth.”
1979-1982 M. Sc., Dept. Botany, U Toronto. Supervisor: Prof. M. C. Heath
“Cytological and histochemical studies of two varieties of Uromyces phaseoli in their hosts and on artificial substrates.”
1974-1978 B. Sc., Four-Year, Zoology and Botany. U Toronto.
Awards and Scholarships
1995 Royal Society of Canada, Alice Wilson Award:
Top-ranked NSERC PDF proposal from a woman applicant
1995 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
1994 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
1993-1996 Gordon Research Conference Travel Award [3 awards]
1992 MSA Mentor Travel Award
1992 Ontario Graduate Scholarhship
1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1990 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
1990 Mycological Society of America [MSA] Postgraduate Fellowship
1990-1994 York U Dean's Development Award [7 awards]
1989 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
1981 U Toronto Open Fellowship
1974 Ontario Scholar
1974-1978 Imperial Oil Scholarship
Grants
2006 Northern Training Supplement Program. Travel support for Jordan Marit.
2006 NSERC Discovery (yr 5 of 5), “Morphogenesis of Aspergillus nidulans hyphae”
2006 CIHR/SHRF Structural and mechanistic studies of eukaryotic UDP-galactopyranose mutase: a novel drug target (yr 2 of 2, with David Sanders, Chemistry)
2006 USTEP, Mycorrhizal fungi in High Arctic Canada (Emily Hodson)
Professional Activities
Employment History
2003 Sabbatical, U New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2001-present Associate Professor, Tenured; Dept. Biology, U Saskatchewan
2000-present Research Faculty, W. P. Fraser Herbarium, U Saskatchewan
2000-present Faculty Member, Virtual College of Biotechnology, U Saskatchewan
1997-2001 Assistant Professor; Dept. Biology, U Saskatchewan
1997-present Graduate Faculty Member, U Saskatchewan
1994-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. J.E. Hamer; Dept. Biological Sciences, Purdue
1989-1994 Ph.D., Prof. I.B. Heath; Dept. Biology, York U
1984-1989 Research Technician, Prof. I.B. Heath; Dept. Biology, York U
1984 Research Associate, Prof. P.B. Moens; Dept. Biology, York U
1982-1984 Research Associate, Prof. A.W. Day; Dept. Plant Science, U Western Ontario.
1979-1982 M.Sc., Prof. M.C. Heath; Dept. Botany, U Toronto.
1977-1979 Research Technician, Prof. M.C. Heath; Dept. Botany, U Toronto
Professional Affiliations
1990-2006 Mycological Society of America
1997-2006 Canadian Botanical Association
Publications
Allen N, Nordlander M, McGonigle T, Basinger J, Kaminskyj S 2006 Arbuscular mycorrhizas on Axel Heiberg Island (80°N) and at Saskatoon (52 °N) Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 06-114, In Press 6June2006
Ma H, Snook L, Tian C, Kaminskyj S, Dahms T 2006 Fungal surface remodeling visualized by atomic force microscopy. Mycological Research, In Press 13 June 2006. MYCRES-D-06-00073
Ma H, Snook L, Kaminskyj S, Dahms T 2005 Surface ultrastructure and elasticity in growing tips and mature regions of Aspergillus hyphae describe wall maturation. Microbiology (Reading), 151: 3679-3668
Kaminskyj S 2005 Drug-free methods for purifying bacteria- or yeast-contaminated cultures of filamentous fungi. Inoculum 56: 14.
Liu G, Sheng X, Greenshields DL, Ogieglo A, Kaminskyj S, Selvaraj G, Wei Y 2005 Profiling of wheat class-III peroxidase genes derived from powdery mildew attacked epidermis reveals distinct sequence-associated expression patterns. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18: 730-741.
Kaminskyj S, Boire M 2004 Ultrastructure of the Aspergillus nidulans hypA1 restrictive phenotype shows defects in endomembrane arrays and polarized wall deposition. Canadian Journal of Botany 82:807-814.
Shi X, Sha Y, Kaminskyj S 2004 Aspergillus nidulans hypA regulates morphogenesis through the secretion pathway. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 41:75-88. (cover)
Palmer DRJ, Balogh H, Ma G, Zhou X, Marko M, Kaminskyj SGW 2004 Synthesis and antifungal properties of compounds which target the alpha-aminoadipate pathway. Die Pharmazie, 59: 9398.
Kaminskyj S 2001 Peziza proteana var sparassoides, an unusual fungus found on a farm in Fiske, Saskatchewan. Blue Jay, 59: 153-156
Kaminskyj S 2001 Fundamentals of growth, storage, genetics and microscopy in Aspergillus
nidulans. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 48: 25-31
Kaminskyj S 2000 Septum position is marked at the tip of Aspergillus nidulans hyphae. Fungal Genetics and Biology 31: 105-113
Shi, X, Kaminskyj S 2000 Optimizing 5'-RACE by riboG-tailing a general template-switching oligonucleotide. Biotechniques, 29: 1192-1194
Kaminskyj S 2000 Proving the identity of a complementing gene in Aspergillus nidulans by tandem integration and loopout repair. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 47: 67-68.
Kaminskyj S, Hamer J 1998 hyp loci control cell pattern formation in the vegetative mycelium of Aspergillus nidulans. Genetics 148:669-680.
Kaminskyj S, Hamer J 1996 A medium for rapid cleaning of Aspergillus cleistothecia. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 43:71
Kaminskyj S, Heath IB 1996 Studies on Saprolegnia ferax suggest the importance of the cytoplasm in determining hyphal morphology. Mycologia 88: 20-37 (Invited review)
Kaminskyj S, Heath IB 1995 Integrin and spectrin homologues, and cytoplasm-wall adhesion in tip growth. Journal of Cell Science 108:849-856
Kaminskyj S, Heath IB 1994 A comparison of techniques for localizing actin and tubulin in hyphae of Saprolegnia ferax. Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry 42:523-530
Kaminskyj S, Garrill A, Heath IB 1992 The relation between turgor and tip growth in Saprolegnia ferax: turgor is necessary, but not sufficient to explain apical extension rates. Experimental Mycology 16:6475
Kaminskyj S, Jackson S, Heath IB 1992 Fixation induces differential polarized translocations in hyphae of Saprolegnia ferax. Journal of Microscopy 167:153-168
Kaminskyj S, Heath IB 1992 Age dependent differential responses of Saprolegnia hyphal tips to a helical growth inducing factor in the agarsubstitute, gellan. Experimental Mycology 16:230-239
Kaminskyj S, Yoon K, Heath IB 1989 Cytoskeletal interactions with post-mitotic migrating nuclei in the oyster mushroom fungus, Pleurotus ostreatus: evidence against a force-producing role for microtubules. Journal of Cell Science 94:663-674
Heath IB, Kaminskyj S 1989 The organization of tip-growth-related organelles and microtubules revealed by quantitative analysis of freezesubstituted oomycete hyphae. Journal of Cell Science 93:41-52
Heath IB, Ashton M-L, Kaminskyj S 1987 Mitosis as a phylogenetic marker among the yeasts: review and observations on novel mitotic systems in freeze substituted cells of the Taphrinales. Studies in Mycology 30:279-297
Meyer S, Kaminskyj S, Heath IB 1987 Nuclear migration in a nud mutant of Aspergillus nidulans is inhibited in the presence of a quantitatively normal population of cytoplasmic microtubules. Journal of Cell Biology 106:773-778
Heath IB, Kaminskyj S, Bauchop T 1985 Basal body loss during zoospore encystment: evidence against centriole autonomy. Journal of Cell Science 83:135-140
Kaminskyj S, Day A 1984 Chemical induction of infection structures in rust fungi. II. Inorganic ions. Experimental Mycology 8:193-201
Kaminskyj S, Day A 1984 Chemical induction of infection structures in rust fungi. I. Sugars and complex media. Experimental Mycology 8:63-72
Kaminskyj S, Heath MC 1983 Histological responses of Uromyces phaseoli var. typica and U. phaseoli var. vignae to the HNO2-MBTH-FeCl3 and IKI-H2SO4 tests. Physiological Plant Pathology 22:173179
Kaminskyj S, Heath M 1982 An evaluation of the nitrous acid - 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone - ferric chloride test in rust fungi and rust infected tissue. Canadian Journal of Botany 60:2575-2580
Papers submitted to refereed journals
Hubbard M, Kaminskyj S 2006 A quantitative comparison of hyphal growth rate and near apical cytoplasmic microtubule abundance in Aspergillus nidulans. Mycological Research MYCRES-S-06-00213-2.pdf submitted 4 July 2006, 30 manuscript pages
Shi C, Kaminskyj S, Loewen M 2006 Fusogenic functionalities for activated G-protein coupled receptors in cellular mating. Nature, submitted 7 July 2006, 30 pp
Szeghalmi A, Kaminskyj S, Gough K 2006 A synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy investigation of fungal hyphae grown under optimal and stressed conditions. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, accepted pending revision 30 June 2006, 27 pp
Yang Y, Bray G, Sanders D, Kaminskyj S 2006 The Aspergillus nidulans hypB5 morphogenesis defect is complemented by a Sec7-domain protein. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 22 manuscript pages, submittted 2 May 2006
Chivers et al Fish Fear Factors. Science, submitted
Ormsby A, Hodson E, Li Y, Basinger J, Kaminskyj S. 2006 Quantitation through space and time of endorhizal fungi at High Asctic tundra sites: the usefullness of herbarium archives. New Phytologist NP-MS-2006-04744
Invited Presentations
Kaminskyj S 2005 Probing life at the hyphal tip: adventures in microscopy. Mycological Society of America, Hilo Hawaii, July 29-Aug 5
Allen N, McGonigle T, Basinger J, Kaminskyj S 2005 Rooting around on the tundra: Arbuscular mycorrhizae in temperate and arctic dandelions. Mycological Society of America, Hilo Hawaii, July 29-Aug 5.
Allen N, McGonigle* T, Basinger J., and Kaminskyj S 2005 Arbuscular mycorrhizae in temperate and arctic Asteraceae. Churchill Research Symposium, Brandon Univ 9Dec2005
Contributed Presentations
Szeghalmi A, Rak M, Gallant M, Kaminskyj S, Gough K 2006 Synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy of fungi grown under normal and stressed conditions. Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, Third Northern Lights Conference, 1316 June 2006
Szeghalmi A, Rak M, Gallant M, Kaminskyj S, Gough K 2006 A synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy study of fungi grown under normal and stressed conditions. Fourth International Spectroscopy Conference, Shedding Light on Disease: Optical Diagnosis for the New Millenium, Heidelberg DE, 20-26 May 2006
Hubbard M, Kaminskyj S 2006 The role of microtubules in polar growth of Aspergillus nidulans. Life Sciences Research Day, University of Saskatchewan, 17 March 2006 First Prize poster for Structural Chemistry/Biochemistry/Nanostructure.
Li Y, Kaminskyj S 2006 Mycorrhizae and root endophytes in Taraxacum. Life Sciences Research Day, University of Saskatchewan, 17 March 2006
Mogilevsky K, Kaminskyj S, Bachewich C 2006 The TRAPP subunit Trs120p is required for morphogenesis in Candida albicans. 8th American Society for Microbiology Conference on Candida and Candidiasis. March 13-17, 2006 Denver, Colorado
Hubbard M, Kaminskyj S 2006 The role of the endomembrane and cytoskeletal systems in polar growth in Aspergillus nidulans. Prairie University Biological Symposium, Calgary AB Feb 23-25, 2006
Li YL, Kaminskyj S 2006 Mycorrhizae and root endophytes in Taraxacum officinale. Prairie University Biological Symposium, Calgary AB Feb 23-25, 2006
Current Students
2006 Xiaohui Bao, M. Sc. Candidate. Mycorrhizal fungi of Taraxacum in the Athabasca Tar Sands
2005 Yang (Lilia) Li, M. Sc. Supervisor. Mycorrhizae of Taraxacum officinale
2005 Robyn Pollock, Ph. D. candidate, co-supervisor with D Chivers (Biology) Effect of disease on alarm cell investment in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)
2004 Michelle Hubbard, M.Sc. Candidate “Endomembrane and cytoplasmic microtubules dynamics in Aspergillus nidulans”
2004 Himadri Mandal, Ph. D. candidate, Supervisory Committee (Bernie Kraatz, Chemistry)
2004 Sarah Steinbach, Ph. D. Candidate, Supervisory Committee (Sean Hemmingsen, Microbiology)
2004 Jae-Sook Park, Ph. D. Candidate, Supervisory Committee (Sean Hemmingsen, Microbiology)
2004 Eshwari Addala, Ph. D. Candidate, Supervisory Committee (Dave Sanders, Chemistry)
2004 Lily Liu Forseille, M.Sc. Candidate, Supervisory Committee (Yangdou Wei, Biol; Gary Peng, AAFC)
Administrative Service, Department of Biology
2006 Chair, Equipment Committee
Administrative Service U Saskatchewan
2006 Student Academic Appeals Panel, Member
2006 University Council, Member at Large
2006 University Council, Nominations Committee, Member
2006 University Accessibility Committee, Member
Additional Activities
2006 Local Organizing Committee, Canadian Federation of Biological Societies
(Third) Northern Lights Meeting, 13-17 June 2006
2006 Microanalytical Imaging Symposium Organizer and Chair, CFBS Northern
Lights, 13 June 2006