Reyad Malakh

Reyad is a fourth-year student in the Honour Biology – Physiology program. He recently 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 assisted in conducting fieldwork around the Hamilton Harbour as well as dissecting round goby specimens and collecting data for subsequent analysis. This year, Reyad will be continuing to work with Sina where he will be developing his undergraduate thesis in the lab with a focus on the alternative reproductive tactics in round goby. He will be working on experiments investigating the effects of sneaker presence on reproductive behaviour as well as parentage assignment experiments utilizing microsatellite markers. Apart from academic work, Reyad enjoys cooking, geocaching, and going on hikes.