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Call for proposals : BIOS² – CIEE synthesis group

Applications due: January 8, 2020.

We invite experienced biodiversity researchers from both academic (universities) and non-academic organizations (e.g. government departments, non-profit organizations, Indigenous organizations, community groups, industry) to submit proposals for a one week working group focused on a question in biodiversity science.

Training session : Intellectual property and open science

BIOS2 presents a training session about:

Intellectual property issues in the context of open and collaborative science

To be held on December 13, 2019, from 1 to 4 PM (local time) at UQAM, Montreal, Room SH-2540 (Sherbrooke Hall).

The training session will be led by Eve-Lyne Comtois-Dinel, a research scientist and PhD candidate in sociology at UQAM, affiliated with TÉLUQ. Eve-Lyne is also research professional at CIRANO.

Mona Parizadeh’s Presentation

Mona Parizadeh, a 2018-2019 BIOS2 fellow , did a poster presentation at the CSEE, ESC & AES 2019 Joint Meeting in Fredericton (NB). Here is what she presented :

Monitoring the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on the phyllosphere and soil bacterial communities in a three-year soybean and corn rotation. Parizadeh, M., B. Mimee, S. W. Kembel. 2019. See poster.

Summer school: Data-driven ecological synthesis class

Application deadline is Dec. 31, 2019.

We are accepting applications for the fifth edition of the Data-Driven Ecological Synthesis intensive class, held from April 27 to May 3 at the Station de Biologie des Laurentides, Université de Montréal. The aim of this class is to train ecologists in state of the art techniques for data management and analysis for synthesis research. It is co-taught by Prof. Timothée Poisot and Dr. Andrew MacDonald. More information, including a link to the application form, can be found here: https://poisotlab.io/ddes/. Students from Québec universities can claim 4 credits for this class.