Current members
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Timothée Poisot
Ecologist. Teaches data analysis, ecological modelling, and responsible use of data.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal
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Alice Doucet Beaupré
2022-, Post-doctoral researcher. Unsupervised learning and uncertainty quantification for network prediction.
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Ariane Bussières-Fournel
2024, B.Sc. research assistant. Sero-prevalence of Canine Distemper Virus over an urbanisation gradient.
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Ben Kaza
2024-, Verena graduate fellow-in-residence. Signatures of viral pathogenenis in high-dimensional datasets.
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Cole Brookson
2024, visiting Ph.D. Quantifying predictability of environmental change and disease dynamics.
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Cristian Cruz Rodriguez
2023-, Ph.D. Large-scale modeling of land-use change to support conservation policy-making.
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Emily Beasley
2023-, Post-doctoral researcher. Optimized spatial sampling of epidemic processes.
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Francis Banville
2020-, Ph.D. Machine Learning techniques for food web structure inference at the planetary scale. Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel
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Gabriel Dansereau
2021-, Ph.D. Quantification of the structural originality of food webs over continuous spatial scales.
2019-2021, M.Sc. Development of beta-diversity measures for spatially continuous hotspot identification. Co-advisor: Pierre Legendre.
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Maria Isabel Arce Plata
2022-, Ph.D. Machine learning for the upscaling of field observation of plant functional traits. Co-advisor: Natalia Norden.
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Michael D. Catchen
2024-, Post-doctoral researcher. Computer vision tools for ecological niche modeling.
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Norma Forero
2020-, Ph.D. Machine Learning and Data Synthesis for the prediction of viral spillover events. Co-advisor: Patrick Leighton
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Stéphanie Shousha
2023-, Post-doctoral researcher. Natural and human influences on coupled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in watersheds. Advisor: Roxane Maranger.
Former members
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Alexandrine Frappier
2018, BSc research assistant. Review of best practices to use image recognition software on wildlife cameras.
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Amélie Muller
2015, M.Sc. Understanding how management programs could gain from studying the variability of plant-pollinator interactions.
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Andréanne Dupont
2019-, M.Sc. Biogeography of lakes ecosystem services. Advisor: Roxane Maranger.
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Andrew MacDonald
2019-2020, Post-doctoral researcher. Development of biodiversity indicators for the governmental monitoring of biodiversity.
2018-2019, Post-doctoral researcher. High-throughput processing of camera-trap data.
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Aude Rebattet
2023-, M.Sc. research assistant. Temporal dynamics of landcape connectivity and zoonotic risk.
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Camille Rondeau Saint-Jean
2021-, M.Sc. Deep-learning for the bioacousting monitoring of bird communities.
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Christophe Benjamin
2017, BSc research assistant. Automated extraction of phylogenetic data from species interaction networks.
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Cynthia Guéveneux-Julien
2015-2016, BSc Hons. Planification, management, and restoration of landscape connectivity in the Laurentians.
2015, BSc research assisant. Environmental drivers of host-parasite interaction variability.
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Daphnée Lecours-Tessier
2018-2020, M.Sc. Blue-green connectivity and ecosystem integrity in the Laurentians. Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger.
2017-2018, B.Sc. research assistant. Best practices for the development and implementation of ecological corridors. Co-advisor: Roxane Maranger.
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Dominique Caron
2017, M.Sc. Inventory of open biodiversity data in Quebec, and creation of decision-helping tools.
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Émilie Vinet
2018, BSc research assistant. Machine learning techniques to produce dynamics maps of land use from digitized and numeric maps.
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Ethan Lamy
2023, B.Sc. research assistant. Trophic regulation of biting vector by omnivorous bats.
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Eva Delmas
2015-2020, Ph.D. Causes and consequences in the relationships between food web structure and ecosystem functioning. Co-advisor: Daniel B. Stouffer.
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Fares Dhane
2019, M.Sc. Training of a neural network for mammals recognition in Québec. Advisor: Andrew MacDonald.
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Gracielle Higino
2019-2020, visiting Ph.D. Biological interactions, environmental variables, and biogeographical species distributions.
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Grégoire Bonenfant
2017, BSc research assistant. Measures of species complementarity in quantitative networks.
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Iman Sicot
2020, BSc research assistant. Survey of data on food webs in North America.
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Joseph B. Burant
2020-, Post-doctoral fellow with the Living Data Project.
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Kari Norman
2022-2023, Post-doctoral researcher. Development of multi-criteria monitoring and biosurveillance networks.
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Kiri Stern
2020, M.Sc. Neural networks for rapid connectivity analyses.
2019, M.Sc. Prey use of generalist predators across their range.
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Luisa Novara
2020, Research assistant. Preparation of data for the forecasting of coronaviruses epidemic risk.
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Marie-Andrée Ouellet
2020, M.Sc. research intern. Singular Value Decomposition as an imputation method for host-virus detection.
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Mathilde Besson
2016-2022, Ph.D. Eco-evolutionary dynamics in networks of positive and negative interactions. Co-advisor: Dominique Gravel.
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Mathis Gheno
2023, M.Sc. international visitor. Identification of structurally important interactions in network data.
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Michiel Stock
2017-2018, visting post-doctoral researcher. Pairwise learning to predict the structure of ecological networks.
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Miléna Aragon
2020, M.Sc. research assistant. Development of indicators for the communication of urban biodiversity trends.
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Nerea Montes Perez
2023-, visiting Ph.D. Spatial structure of plant-pollination networks in Europe. Advisor: Ignasi Bartomeus.
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Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
2019-2023, Post-doctoral researcher. Type theory and higher-order probabilistic programming for ecological synthesis.
2014-2018, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence applied to theory building for ecological synthesis. Advisor: Dominique Gravel.
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Piotr Szefer
2018, visiting Ph.D. Implementation of structural models of food web structure.
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Renaud McKinnon
2013-2016, M.Sc. Interactions between trees from experimental plantations and their microbial ectosymbionts.
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Salomé Bouskila
2021-2022, M.Sc. research intern. Pathogen sharing in the global virome.
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Samuel Provencher-Tardif
2021, M.Sc. research intern. Meta-models for inference and forecasting of biodiversity uniqueness.
2022, M.Sc. research intern. Ethical implications of the use of UAVs for biodiversity research.
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Sandrine Soeharjono
2019, M.Sc. Development of indicators based on eBird data to survey urban biodiversity changes in Montréal.
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Sarahdghyn Louissaint
2024, M.Sc. research intern. Meta-analysis of surveillance strategies for the Racoon rabies virus in Eastern Canada/United States.
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Stéphanie Préfontaine
2017-2020, M.Sc. Impacts of temperature on the metabolic rates of ecological communities. Advisor: Dominique Gravel.
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Steve Vissault
2019-2020, Ph.D. Automated aggregation, synthesis, and forecasting of unstructured biodiversity data.
2018-2019, Staff scientist. Improvements on the mangal.io database backend and frontend.
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Tanya Strydom
2020-2024, Ph.D. Common properties of species interactions networks across space.
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Valentine Volz
2020, B.Sc. research assistant. Structural analysis of the host-sharing network of coronaviruses.
2021-2023, M.Sc. Spatial structure of ecological networks over large gradients.
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Zachary Bélisle
2018, M.Sc. Variation in the composition of insect communities in forest fragments. Advisor: Colin Favret.
2017-2018, BSc Hons. Robustness of permutation tests for the analysis of ecological network structure.