Reyad Malakh

Reyad is in the first year of his masters.  He first joined ABEL in the summer of 2023 as a BIOLOGY 4F06 project student where he worked on round goby population monitoring project with PhD student, Sina Zarini.  He then completed his undergraduate thesis in the lab with a focus on the alternative reproductive tactics in round goby by working on experiments investigating the effects of sneaker presence on reproductive behaviour.  For his MSc research Reyad is examining parentage in the round goby. He is comparing paternity rates of guarder versus sneaker males based on microsatellite markers as well as studying how nest quality and density influence paternity rates.  Reyad is co-mentored by Dr. Bryan Neff from the University of Western.  Apart from academic work, Reyad enjoys cooking, geocaching, and going on hikes.