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Clint D. Kelly | Principal investigator
Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Ecology Groupe de Recherche en Écologie Comportamentale et Animale Clint obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, MSc. from Mount Allison University (supervisor: Prof. Jean-Guy Godin) and PhD from the University of Toronto (supervisor: Prof. Darryl Gwynne). He completed an NSERC post-doctoral fellowship at the Australian National University (host: Prof. Michael Jennions) and was a Killam Fellow at Dalhousie University (host: Prof. Shelley Adamo). He joined the EEOB faculty at Iowa State University in 2008 and then migrated back home in 2013 to join the faculty in the Department of Biological Science at the Université du Quebéc à Montréal. Clint is a member of ReNewZoo, an Ambassador for the Center for Open Science, and an executive committe member for the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).
Julien Céré | Doctorat/PhD
cere.julien.2[at]courrier.uqam.ca Strategies, success and social interaction: An evolutionary approach to video game behaviour I currently work on behaviour selection in a social network context using video game data. Among other things, I want to identify the relationship between performance and strategy selection among and within social groups. I also aim to merge the approaches of game theory and social network analysis to better describe the dynamics of frequency dependent strategies in socially heterogeneous populations. In a partnership with the video game company Behaviour Interactive, I use an ecological and evolutionary framework and techniques to facilitate the design of ever-changing multiplayer online games.
Maxime Fraser-Franco | Maîtrise/MSc (Co-supervised with P.-O. Montiglio)
maxime.fraser.franco[at]hotmail.com Quantifying how habitat structure and learning experience shape selection on predator behaviour using videogame environments Predators display different tactics to successfully capture prey. The expression of these tactics can be mediated by their hunting experience and the habitat structures where they hunt. The main objective of my research is to quantify how habitat structure and predator hunting experience cause and shape selection on predator behaviour, using a videogame that simulates a predator-prey interaction. An advantage of using videogames is that we recreate "real-life" situations where we can manipulate environmental components experimentally to infer their effect on behaviour. They also provide us with massive amounts of data, giving the opportunity to measure multiple behavioural variables across different environmental gradients. Manipulating environmental components to understand evolutionnary change is a major challenge in evolutionnary ecology. My project should help us uncover how predator experience and habitat structure interact to shape selection on hunting behaviour.
Roxanne Gagnon | Maîtrise/MSc
gagnon.roxanne.4[at]courrier.uqam.ca Ecological characterization of the Northern barrens tiger beetle population (Cicindela patruela Dejean) by capture-mark-recapture at Isle-Aux-Allumettes, Quebec The Northern barrens tiger beetle is an endangered species since 2009 in Canada. The main cause of its decline is the loss of its mid-successional habitat: a semi-open oak-pine savannah based on a dry and sandy soil. The Quebec population of Cicindela patruela was discovered in 2017, making it the second Canadian population after the Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario. The raison d’être of my MSc project is to quantify the demographic, behavioral, and environmental characteristics of this population. By capturing (and re-capturing) individually marked beetles each day at Isle-Aux-Allumettes I will estimate the size, density, and sex ratio of the population, and by measuring the morphological characteristics of males and females assess its degree of sexual dimorphism. By taking GPS points for each re-captured beetle, I will model individual home range size and determine whether the sexes differ in their ecological requirements. I will also examine ecological requirements at a finer scale by characterizing the micro- and macro-habitat of each captured beetle. This research is conducted in collaboration with Montreal Insectarium and ReNewZoo.
Daphné Bourget | Maîtrise/MSc (Co-supervised with P.-O. Montiglio)
borget_daphne[at]hotmail.com |
Alumni
Dominique Roche ( Agent de recherche) 2020 | Current:
Éloïse Adam-Granger (MSc) 2019 | Current:
Valérie L'Heureux (MSc) 2019 | Current:
Sarah Nason (MSc) 2019 | Current: Fuse Consulting
Tina Wey (Post-doc) 2017 | Current: Research scientist, Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Université de Sherbrooke
Amy Worthington (PhD) 2015 | Current: Assistant Professor | Department of Biology, Creighton University
Brittany Tawes (MSc) 2014 | Current: Teaching Laboratory Associate | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
Melissa Telemeco (MSc) 2014 | Current: Portal to the Public Program Specialist, Pacific Science Center in the Science and Education Division
Éloïse Adam-Granger (MSc) 2019 | Current:
Valérie L'Heureux (MSc) 2019 | Current:
Sarah Nason (MSc) 2019 | Current: Fuse Consulting
Tina Wey (Post-doc) 2017 | Current: Research scientist, Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Université de Sherbrooke
Amy Worthington (PhD) 2015 | Current: Assistant Professor | Department of Biology, Creighton University
Brittany Tawes (MSc) 2014 | Current: Teaching Laboratory Associate | Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
Melissa Telemeco (MSc) 2014 | Current: Portal to the Public Program Specialist, Pacific Science Center in the Science and Education Division
