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).
AlessandroCitzia
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
AllegraSpensieri
MSc student
Understanding patch dynamics of the European common blue butterfly based on its movement patterns.
Institution: Concordia University
Supervised by: Eric Pedersen
André Lucasdos 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
AymericOliveira-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
BijayaDhami
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-CécileJuhasz
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
FrancisBanville
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
GiuseppeGarlaschè
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
HarsimranBains
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
IsabelleLebeuf-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
LukasVan 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
MarianneBouthillette
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
HouessouNoudehouenou Freedich Madjid
PhD student
Bird migration modelling in North America.
Institution: Université de Sherbrooke
Supervised by: Guillaume Blanchet and Dominique Gravel
SorayaGhassemlou
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
ThéophileKabasele 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
VanessaDi 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
WilliamOu
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!