Name & Surname:
Irena Kaczmarska
Date & place of birth:
Citizenship:
on one happy summer day, Poland
Polish, Canadian
Address:
Department of Biology
Mount Allison University
63B York Street,
Sackville, E4L 1G7 New Brunswick
Canada
Tel.:
Email:
1-506-364-2510
iehrman@mta.ca
Academic honours and career
Academic Honours:
 2006 The Tyge Christensen Prize, International Phycological Society for the best paper
published in 2003-2004 in the Society journal Phycologia.
 2007 Imasco Paul Paré Medal, excellence in teaching & research, Mount Allison University.
 1997, 2000 & 2006: Imasco Paul Paré Excellence Award, excellence in research, Mount Allison
University.
 1983 Visiting Scholar at Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, Texas, U.S.A.
 1982-1983 Visiting Scholar at Department of Botany & Range Sciences, Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah, U.S.A.
 1978-1979 Exchange Scholar at Institute of Botany of the Soviet Academy of Sciences,
Leningrad & Leningrad University & the Institute of Oceanography of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
 1976 III Degree Award of the Ministry of Higher Education & Science for outstanding doctorate
in Natural Sciences, Poland.
Academic Career:
 1999-present Professor, Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., Canada.
 1998-2009 Director, Digital Microscopy Facility, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B.,
Canada. See http://www.mta.ca/dmf for details.
 1989-1997 Associate Professor, Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., Canada.
 1986-1988 Assistant Professor, Biology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., Canada.
 1985-1986 Research Associate, Department of Biology & Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
 1984-1985 Invited Foreign Scholar, Laboratoire des Diatomees, E.N.S. de Fontenay, France.
 1977-1984 Assistant Professor, Phycology, Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Cracov, Poland.
 1975-1977 Assistant Professor, Paleontology, Institute of Geology & Mineral Resources,
Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracov, Poland.
 1972-1975 Doctoral Candidate, Department of Plant Taxonomy & Biogeography, Jagellonian
University, Cracov, Poland.
 1971-1972 Research Assistant, Department of Biometrics, Institute of Botany, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Cracov, Poland.
Experience
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Project partner : BIOVADIA, ERA-Can, 2010-present
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Project principal co-investigator: NSRC Research Network: BOLD, CAISN, CHONe, Mount Allison
University and 20+ universities across Canada plus Genome Ontario, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
Transport Canada, among others institutions (2009-2013)
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Supervision: 32 Honours (equivalent of Master 1), 5 MSc (equivalent of Master 2), 3 Interns, 1
Research Associate, 4 Postdoctoral Fellows (Mount Allison University, since 1987)
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Expertise : reviewer for scientific journals and for national and international research funding agencies
(NSERC, NSF, DGF, EPA) grant proposals, member of NSERC Evolution and Ecology Evaluation
Group (2009-2012).
Main scientific expertise
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Diatom evolution: evolutionary significance of diversity of diatom sexual strategies and sex-cell
structure.
Alien and harmful species: propagule and colonization pressure of diatoms surviving ship-ballast water
translocation, harmful and nuisance coastal marine diatoms.
Molecular ecology and taxonomy of marine diatoms: morphological, ecological and molecular indicators
of species diversity and their distribution in Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
Biology and sexual reproduction in blue diatoms: auxosporulation, life cycle, biodiversity.
List of publications (2009-2013)
Mather, L. & I. Kaczmarska 2013 Silicification of auxospores in the araphid diatom Tabularia fasciculata
(Bacillariophyta. European Journal of Protistology (accepted April).
Villac M.C., I. Kaczmarska I & JM Ehrman 2013 The diversity of diatom assemblages in ship ballas sediments:
colonization and propagule pressuer on Canadian ports. Journal of Plankton Research 35: 1267-1282.
MacGillivary M.L. & I. Kaczmarska 2013 Lectotypification of Paralia sulcata (Ehrenb.) Cleve and description of P.
obscura sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Ehrenberg’s original material. Diatom Research 28:221-235.
Briski E., S.A. Bailey, O. Casas-Monroy, C. DiBacco, I. Kaczmarska, J.E. Lawrence, J. Leichsenring, C. Levings,
M.L. MacGillivary, C.W. McKindsey, L.E. Nasmith, M. Parentau, G.E. Piercey, R.B. Rivkin, A. Rochon, S. Roy,
N. Simard, B. Sun, C. Way, A.M. Weise & H.J. MacIsaac 2013 Taxon- and vector-specific variation in species
richness and abundance during the transport stage of biological invasions. Limnology & Oceanography 58: 13611372.
Kaczmarska I., A. Poulíčková, S. Sato, M.B. Edlund, M. Idei, T. Watanabe & D.G. Mann 2013 Proposals for a
terminology for diatom sexual reproduction, auxospores & resting stages. Diatom Research 28: 263-294.
Gastineau R., V. Leignel, B. Jacquette, Y. Hardivillier, A. Wulff, P. Gaudin, D. Bendahmane, N.A. Davidovich, I.
Kaczmarska & J.-L. Mouget 2013 Inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in the pennate diatom Haslea ostrearia
(Naviculaceae) during auxosporulation suggests a uniparental transmission. Protist 164: 340-351.
Briski E., S.A. Bailey, O. Casas-Monroy, C. DiBacco, I. Kaczmarska, C. Levings, M.L. MacGillivary, C.W.
Mckindsey, L.E. Nasmith, M. Parenteau, G.E. Piercey, A. Rochon, S. Roy, N. Simard, M.C. Villac, A.M. Weise &
H.J. MacIsaac 2012 Relationship between propagule pressure and colonization pressure in invasion ecology: a test
with ship’s ballast. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2990-2997.
Davidovich N.A., I. Kaczmarska, S.A. Karpov O.I. Davidovich, M.L. MacGillivary & L. Mather. 2012. Mechanism of
male gamete motility in araphid pennate diatoms from the genus Tabularia (Bacillariophyta). Protist 163: 480-494.
Ehrman J.M. & I. Kaczmarska 2012 Strategies for high-throughput microscopy in algal research. In: Wołowski, K., I.
Kaczmarska J.M. Ehrman & A.Z. Wojtal (eds.). Current advances in algal taxonomy and its applications:
phylogenetic, ecological and applied perspective. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Kraków, p. 253-262.
Kaczmarska I., M.L. MacGillivary, L. Mather L. & J.M. Ehrman 2012 Current advances in the biology of marine
araphid diatoms. In: Wołowski, K., I. Kaczmarska, J.M. Ehrman & A.Z. Wojtal (eds.). Current advances in algal
taxonomy and its applications: phylogenetic, ecological and applied perspective. W. Szafer Institute of Botany,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, p. 69-78.
Lang I. & I. Kaczmarska 2012 Morphological and molecular identity of diatom cells retrieved from ship ballast tanks
destined for Vancouver, Canada. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 141: 515-534.
Luddington I.A., I. Kaczmarska & C. Lovejoy 2012 Distance and character-based evaluation of the V4 region of the
18S rRNA gene for the identification of diatoms (Bacillariophyceae). PLoS ONE 7: e45664.
MacGillivary M.L. & I. Kaczmarska 2012 Genetic differentiation within the Paralia longispina (Bacillariophyta)
species complex. Botany 90: 205-222.
Lang I., & I. Kaczmarska 2012 Morphological and molecular identity of diatoms retrieved from ship ballast tanks
during trans-Pacific voyage 2. Nova Hedwigia, Beihf. 141: 515-534.
MacGillivary M.L. & I. Kaczmarska 2011 Survey of the efficacy of a short fragment of the rbcL gene as a
supplemental DNA barcode for diatoms. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 58: 529-536.
Lang I. & I. Kaczmarska 2011 A protocol for a single-cell PCR of diatoms from fixed samples: method validation using
Ditylum brightwelllii (T. West) Grunow. Diatom Research 26: 43-49.
Villac M.C. & I. Kaczmarska 2011 Marine planktonic diatoms, including potentially toxis species. In: The Diatom
World: Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats & Astrobiology. Seckbach, J. & P. Kociolek (eds.), Springer +
Business Media B.V., :465-490.
Villac M.C. & I. Kaczmarska 2011 Estimating propagule pressure and viability of diatoms detected in ballast tank
sediments of ships arriving at Canadian ports. Marine Ecology Progress Series 425: 47–61.
Davidovich N.A., I. Kaczmarska & J.M. Ehrman 2010 Heterothallic and homothallic sexual reproduction in Tabularia
fasciculata (Bacillariophyta). Fottea 10: 251–266.
Klein G., K. MacIntosh I. Kaczmarska & J.M. Ehrman 2010 Diatom survivorship in ballast waters during trans-Pacific
crossing. Biological Invasions 12: 1031–1044.
Villac M.C., G.J. Doucette & I. Kaczmarska 2010 Toxic marine diatoms. In: The Diatoms, Applications for the
Environmental & Earth Sciences. Smol, J.P. & E.F Stoermer (eds.), 2nd revised edition. Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
Kaczmarska I., J.M. Ehrman, M.B.J. Moniz & N. Davidovich 2009 Phenotypic and genetic structure of interbreeding
populations of the diatom Tabularia fasciculata (Bacillariophyta). Phycologia 48: 391–403.
Moniz M.B.J. & I. Kaczmarska 2010. Barcoding of diatoms: nuclear encoded ITS revisited. Protist 161: 7–34.
Kaczmarska I., C. Lovejoy, M. Potvin & M.L. MacGillivary 2009 Molecular and morphological characteristics of
selected species of Minidiscus. European Journal of Phycology 44: 461–475.
Klein K., I. Kaczmarska & J.M. Ehrman 2009 Chaetoceros in ships' ballast waters - survivorship of stowaways. Acta
Botanica Croatica 68: 147–160.
Moniz M.B.J. & I. Kaczmarska 2009 Barcoding diatoms: is there a good marker? Molecular Ecology Resources 9
(Suppl. 1): 65–74.
Thaler M. & I. Kaczmarska 2009. Gyrosigma orbitum (Bacillariophyta), a new species from a Bay of Fundy salt
marsh. Botanica Marina 52: 60–68.
Total : 106 peer-reviewed articles, 1 book, 4 book chapters.