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Benjamin Mercier M.Sc. student in Ecology
< + > Quantitative ecologist
Education
M.Sc. in Ecology - Integrative Ecology Lab
Université de Sherbrooke - (4.00 / 4.3)
Sherbrooke, CA
To this day - 2020
- Mecanistic predictive model of biomass flows in pairwise trophic interactions
Microprogram in Scientific Interactions
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2023 - 2020
B.Sc. in Ecology
Université de Sherbrooke – (4.04 / 4.30)
Sherbrooke, CA
2020 - 2016
- Undergraduate research project : « Structure of the reconstructed trophic networks of the terrestrial vertebrates of Quebec : an algorithmic approach (KNN) »
Microprogram in Practical Ecology
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2020 - 2016
Work
Course demonstrator - Graduate 2e cycle
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2023 - 2022
- Demonstrator BIO101
Teachers assistant - Graduate 2e cycle
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2023 - 2021
- BIO109 and BIO 500
Research assistant - Graduate 2e cycle
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2022
Research assistant - Undergraduate 1er cycle
Marc Bélisle and Dominique Gravel Labs
Sherbrooke, CA
2020 - 2019
- Nest analysis, ATLAS Database and KBA
Internship
KBA internship
KBA Canada
Remote
2021
- Developping a Shiny application to create KBA summaries
Mangal database
Integrative Ecology Lab - Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2019
- Formatting ecological networks data and populate the Mangal database through an API
GRIL - UQAM
Yves Prairie, Beatrix Beisner and Paul Del Gorgio Labs
Montreal, CA
2018
- Water sample analysis in laboratory
- Spectrophotometry | Spectrofluorometry | Nutrient analysis | Isotopic carbon analysis
Bird surveys data analysis
Marc Bélisle and Marc-André Villard Labs - Université de Sherbrooke | UQAM
Sherbrooke, CA
2018
- Nest inventory for parasites and photo analysis
Tree swallow project
Marc Bélisle, Fanie Pelletier and Dany Garant Labs – Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2017
- Population survey and bird bandings
- Genetic analysis | Extraction & Dosage | PCR
- Nest inventory for parasites
Volunteering
Tutor, peer support biology center
Départament de biologie - Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2021 - 2019
- Helping new students with different biology courses
Selected Talks and Posters
Introduction to computational ecology
Presentation to CÉGEP du Vieux Montréal students (45 min talk)
Montréal, CA
2020
- Preamble to computational ecology through the presentation of my honours undergraduate research project (Presentation)
Scholarship
Training fellowship
BIOS2
Sherbrooke, CA
2023 - 2022
- 8 500 $ Master Scholarship
Quebec Graduate Scholarship-Master
FRQNT
Sherbrooke, CA
2022 - 2021
- 17 500 $ Master Scholarship
Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master
NSERC
Sherbrooke, CA
2021 - 2020
- 17 500 $ Master Scholarship
Undergraduate scholarship for training in computational ecology
BIOS2
Sherbrooke, CA
2020
- 2 000 $ Undegraduate Scholarship
Undergraduate Student Research Award
NSERC
Sherbrooke, CA
2017
- 4 500 $ Undergraduate Scholarship
Admission Scholarship
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, CA
2016
- 1000 $ Admission Scholarship
Publications
Graph embedding and transfer learning can help predict potential species interaction networks despite data limitations
Methods in Ecology and Evolution -
N/A
2023
- T Strydom, S Bouskila, F Banville, C Barros, D Caron, M J.Farrell, MJ Fortin, B Mercier, L J.Pollock, R Runghen, G V.Dalla Riva, T Poisot
Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low-rank network representation
Methods in Ecology and Evolution -
N/A
2022
- T Strydom, S ouskila, F Banville, C Barros, D Caron, M J.Farrell, MJ Fortin, V Hemming, B Mercier, L J.Pollock, R Runghen, G V.Dalla Riva, T poisot
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
N/A
2021
- T Strydom, MD Catchen, F Banville, D Caron, G Dansereau, P Desjardins-Proulx, NR Forero-Muñoz, G Higino, B Mercier, A Gonzalez, D Gravel, L Pollock, T Poisot
Global knowledge gaps in species interaction networks data
N/A
2021
- T Poisot, G Bergeron, K Cazelles, T Dallas, D Gravel, A Macdonald, B Mercier, C Violet, S Vissault.
R package - rmangal
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N/A
2019
- Vissault S, Cazelles K, Bergeron G, Mercier B, Violet C, Gravel D, Poisot T (2019). rmangal: An R package to interact with Mangal database. R package version 2.0.0.