Haley Zubyk
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Campus
St. George (downtown)
CSB Appointment
Teaching
Research Areas
Science Pedagogy
Education
BHSc (Honours) McMaster University 2017
PhD (Biochemistry) McMaster University 2024
Titles and Honors
Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award (2025-2026)
Experiential Learning Faculty Fellow
Faculty of Arts and Science (2025-2026)
Primary Undergraduate Department
Cell & Systems Biology
Research Description
My scholarship of teaching and learning research examines how undergraduate research experiences influence student development and career pathways, while advancing experiential learning, antimicrobial resistance education, HIV/AIDS pedagogy, and community-engaged learning.
Contact Information
Office Phone: 416-946-5806
Office: EP410-D
Email
Mailing Address
149 College St
M5S 3M2
Toronto, ON
Recent News
Publications
2026
A yeast synthetic biotic platform for delivery of therapeutic nanobodies to ameliorate gastrointestinal inflammation
Palou R, van der Sloot AM, Fiebig AA, Zangara MT, Sangwan N, Sánchez-Osuna M, Ilyas B, Zubyk H, Cook M, Wright GD, Coombes BK, Tyers M
2026, Disease Models & Mechanisms, 10.1242/dmm.052620
2025
Characterizing antimicrobial activity of environmental Streptomyces spp. and oral bacterial and fungal isolates from Canis familiaris and Felis catus
Cowen A, Yiu B, Fallah S, Meyer KJ, Puumala E, Lee Y, Zubyk HL, Robbins N, Nodwell JR, MacAlpine J, Cowen LE, Mitchell AP
2025, mSphere, 10.1128/msphere.00098-25
Impact of a senior research thesis on students’ perceptions of scientific inquiry in distinct student populations
Suart C, Zubyk HL, Ogrodnik M, Mullarkey CE, Vulcu F
2025, FEBS Open Bio, 10.1002/2211-5463.70145
2022
CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
Alcock BP, Huynh W, Chalil R, Smith KW, Raphenya A, Wlodarski MA, Edalatmand A, Petkau A, Syed SA, Tsang KK, Baker SJC, Dave M, McCarthy M, Mukiri KM, Nasir JA, Golbon B, Imtiaz H, Jiang X, Kaur K, Kwong M, Liang ZC, Niu KC, Shan P, Yang JYJ, Gray K, Hoad GR, Jia B, Bhando T, Carfrae L, Farha M, French S, Gordzevich R, Rachwalski K, Tu M, Bordeleau E, Dooley D, Griffiths E, Zubyk HL, Brown ED, Maguire F, Beiko R, Hsiao WWL, Brinkman FSL, Van Domselaar G, McArthur AG
2022, Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkac920
2021
Identifying novel β-lactamase substrate activity through in silico prediction of antimicrobial resistance
Tsang KK, Maguire F, Zubyk HL, Chou S, Edalatmand A, Wright GD, Beiko RG, McArthur AG
2021, Microbial Genomics, 10.1099/mgen.0.000500
CrpP Is Not a Fluoroquinolone-Inactivating Enzyme
Zubyk HL, Wright GD
2021, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 10.1128/AAC.00773-21
2019
Antibiotic Dereplication Using the Antibiotic Resistance Platform
Wright GD, Cox G, Zubyk HL
2019, Journal of Visualized Experiments, 10.3791/60536
CARD 2020: antibiotic resistome surveillance with the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database
Alcock BP, Raphenya AR, Lau TTY, Tsang KK, Bouchard M, Edalatmand A, Huynh W, Nguyen AV, Cheng AA, Liu S, Min SY, Miroshnichenko A, Tran H, Werfalli RE, Nasir JA, Oloni M, Speicher DJ, Florescu A, Singh B, Faltyn M, Hernandez-Koutoucheva A, Sharma AN, Bordeleau E, Pawlowski AC, Zubyk HL, Dooley D, Griffiths E, Maguire F, Winsor GL, Beiko RG, Brinkman FSL, Hsiao WWL, Domselaar GV, McArthur AG
2019, Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkz935
2018
Substrate Recognition by a Colistin Resistance Enzyme from Moraxella catarrhalis
Stogios PJ, Cox G, Zubyk HL, Evdokimova E, Wawrzak Z, Wright GD, Savchenko A
2018, ACS Chemical Biology, 10.1021/acschembio.8b00116