FELLOWS

BIOS2 Fellows

We created a status of BIOS2 fellows for participating students and postdoc with mentoring and skill development provided throughout their entire program. Fellows include students fully supported financially by the program, but also students with external financial support (e.g. supervisor or NSERC).

Alessandro Citzia
Undergrad

My project investigates the impact of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity using -omics sciences. Understanding these mechanisms is vital for predicting long-term effects on copepod populations, copepod-dependent species, and marine ecosystems.

Institution: UQAR

Supervised by: Piero Calosi, Lauric Feugere

Allegra Spensieri
MSc student

Understanding patch dynamics of the European common blue butterfly based on its movement patterns.

Institution: Concordia University

Supervised by: Eric Pedersen

André Lucas dos Reis Cuenca
PhD candidate

Investigating the physiological status of marine benthic invertebrates across a natural deoxygenation gradient via -omics approaches.

Institution: UQAR

Supervised by: Piero Calosi (supervisor, UQAR); Geneviève Parent (co-supervisor, MPO) and Diana Madeira (co-supervisor, University of Aveiro, Portugal).

Ariane B. Barrette
PhD candidate

Finding Selenoneine and Ergothioneine in the Arctic Marine Food Web.

Institution: Université de Laval

Supervised by: Philippe Archambault, Pierre Ayotte, Mélanie Lemire

Aymeric Oliveira-Xavier
PhD candidate

Understand the influence of the landscape context on forest bird and bat communities that use cocoa agroforestry plantations in Mexico.

Institution: Université de Sherbrooke

Supervised by: Sophie Calmé & Dominique Gravel

Bijaya Dhami
MSc student

Investigating the response of avian and mammalian communities to different forest harvesting practices across Alberta.

Institution: University of Alberta

Supervised by: Erin Bayne

Claire-Cécile Juhasz
Postdoc

Biodiversity monitoring by contributing to the development and the computation of essential biodiversity variables and biodiversity indicators.

Institution: Université de Sherbrooke

Supervised by: Dominique Gravel

Francis Banville
PhD candidate

My research focuses on the development of an entropy-based theory of food webs.

Institution: Université de Montréal

Supervised by: Timothée Poisot and Dominique Gravel 

Giuseppe Garlaschè
PhD candidate

Intraspecific comparative ecophysiology of an invasive species living along a large latitudinal gradient.

Institution: UQAR

Supervised by: Piero Calosi, Chris McKindsey, Kimberly Howland

Harsimran Bains
PhD student

Broadly, my research focusses on Pileated Woodpecker (gaining a better understanding of where they nest, whether sound can be used to detect cavities, and how Pileated Woodpeckers use their space/habitat).

Institution: University of Alberta

Supervised by: Erin Bayne and Corey Scobie

Isabelle Lebeuf-Taylor
PhD student

I am developing enhanced acoustic perceptibility tools to assess bird use of heterogeneous habitats in the Boreal forest.

Institution: University of Alberta

Supervised by: Erin Bayne

Lukas Van Riel
PhD candidate

My research is concerned with forest succession and dynamics under external drivers such as climate change and natural (e.g. wildfires) and anthropogenic (logging) disturbances.

Institution: Université de Montréal

Supervised by: Marie-Hélène Brice, Mathieu Bouchard, François Girard

Marianne Bouthillette
MSc student

Plant diversity changes in balsam fir-yellow birch forests of eastern Quebec (Canada).

Institution: Université de Montréal

Supervised by: Marie-Hélène Brice, Pierre-Luc Couillard, Pierre Legendre

Houessou Noudehouenou Freedich Madjid
PhD student

Bird migration modelling in North America.

Institution: Université de Sherbrooke

Supervised by: Guillaume Blanchet and Dominique Gravel

Soraya Ghassemlou
Undergrad

I dived in and swam around marine dispersal rate simulation data to extract ways marine species distributions and biodiversity could change after climate change.

Institution: McGill University

Supervised by: Jennifer Sunday

Théophile Kabasele Walelu
PhD student

 Northern marginal population expansion of red maple (Acer rubrum) in Quebec under climate change.

Institution: Université de Montréal

Supervised by: Marie-Hélène Brice and François Girard

Vanessa Di Maurizio
PhD student

Quantifying the vulnerability of Quebec species assemblages to climate change using species distribution models.

Institution: Université de Sherbrooke

Supervised by: Dominique Gravel and Anouk Simard

William Ou
PhD candidate

I study how organisms navigate space and what that entails for the maintenance of biodiversity. I study this by running experiments with microbes, flour beetles, and virtual organisms in-silico!

Institution: University of British Columbia

Supervised by: Rachel Germain and Sarah Otto

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