THURSDAY MAY 27 TO WEDNESDAY JUNE 9

Anytime on the Gather Town platform: short 180-second presentations available online

The short 180 second presentations will be available at all times during this period in our Gather Town (check your emails for link and password). The list of all 180-second short presentations can be found at the end of this page.

THURSDAY JUNE 3

3:00 to 5:00 pm : Virtual Happy hour!

3:00 - The presenters of the short presentations will answer your questions on the Gather Town platform!

4:00 - Animation by the student committee

5:00 - End of the virtual Happy hour!

TUESDAY JUNE 8

8:30 - Word of welcome

Beatrix Beisner, Director of the GRIL

8:45 - Guest speaker

Daniel Hering, Professor at the Department of Aquatic Ecology of the University of Duisburg and Essen (Germany)
Relationships of multiple stressors and biological responses in freshwaters: Impact, scales and mechanisms

9:45 - Mini break

9:50 - New GRIL members (moderator: Beatrix Beisner)

Vincent Fugère (UQTR)
Biodiversité des eaux douces en milieu agricole: une perspective éco-évolutive

Catherine Girard (UQAC)
Connectivité microbienne accrue dans l'Arctique en réchauffement

Michelle Garneau (UQAM), présenté par Antonin Prijac, Laure Gandois, Michelle Garneau, Laurent Jeanneau, Pierre Taillardat.
Dissolved organic matter as an indicator of processes at the interface between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in a boreal peatland

Raoul-Marie Couture (U. Laval), présenté par Wessam Neweshy, Marie Demers, Dolors Planas, Elisabeth Tellier, Raoul-Marie Couture.
Geochemical mechanisms controlling internal phosphorus loading in a lanthanum-remediated eutrophic lake

10:40 - Break

11:00 - Oral presentations (moderator: Irene Gregory-Eaves)

Ricciardi Laboratory: Geneviève D'Avignon, Suncica Avlijas, Victoria Chicatun, Christophe Benjamin, Noémie Sheppard, Jessamine Trueman, Heather Reid, Alex Crew, Anthony Ricciardi
From invasive species to microplastics: Understanding how aquatic ecosystems respond to chemical and biological pollution / Des espèces envahissantes aux microplastiques : comprendre comment les écosystèmes aquatiques réagissent à la pollution chimique et biologique

Beisner Laboratory: Gillian Martin, Vincent Fugère, Beatrix Beisner
Multi-taxonomic diversity varies across the Canadian landscape

Binning Laboratory: Joëlle Guitard, Emmanuelle Chrétien, Jérémy De Bonville, Daniel Boisclair, Sandra A. Binning
L’augmentation de la charge parasitaire est associée à des taux métaboliques et une réponse de fuite réduits chez le poisson hôte, Lepomis gibbosus

Laurion Laboratory: Thomas Pacoureau, Isabelle Laurion, Milla Rautio
Influence of DOM quality and nutrients on microbial metabolism in ponds of the Canadian Arctic

Word from the GRIL coordination team : Marie-Andrée Fallu and Frédérique Bélanger-Lépine

***Presentation of the new Student Committee***

12:00 - First group photo on Zoom

12:05 - Lunch

1:30 - Oral presentations (moderator: Jean-François Lapierre)

Rautio Laboratory: Pénélope Blackburn-Desbiens, Guillaume Grosbois, Michael Power, Milla Rautio
Hydrological connectivity and zooplankton biodiversity in freshwater lakes on southern Victoria Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Boisclair Laboratory: Emmanuelle Chrétien, Daniel Boisclair, Steve Cooke, Shaun Killen
Effets de l’environnement social et de la présence de refuge sur le métabolisme des poissons

Bertolo Laboratory: Fan Qin, Maxime Leclerc, Marc Amyot, Andrea Bertolo
Grazer-mediated methylmercury and inorganic mercury regeneration in freshwater

Prairie Laboratory: Jihyeon Kim, Yves Prairie, Sara Mercier-Blais, Yudhistir Reddy, Gabriel Bastien Beaudet
Combining physical modeling with empirical data for more robust limnological prediction and interpretation

2h20 - Break

2:30 - Head over to Gather Town to view the 180-second presentations and ask questions to participants!

4:00 - End of the day

WEDNESDAY JUNE 9

8:30 - Word of welcome

Beatrix Beisner, director of the GRIL

8:45 - Guest speaker

Bailey McMeans, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Toronto (Canada)
Tracing temporally dynamic energy flows: combining biotracers to understand the individual to ecosystem level responses to seasonal variation

9:45 - Mini break

9:50 - Oral presentations (moderator: Pascale Biron)

del Giorgio Laboratory: Candice Aulard, Sofia Balinia, Pedro Barbosa, Pascal Bodmer, Mathilde Couturier, Gabriel Duran, Paul del Giorgio, Sabrina Gignac Brassard, Michaela Melo, Alice Parkes, Mariana Peifer, Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona, Felipe Rust, Amir Shahabibi, Masumi Stadler, Caroline Fink-Mercier
Overview of current research projects of the CarBBAS group at the UQAM

Pellerin Laboratory: Audréanne Loiselle, Stéphanie Pellerin, Raphaël Proulx, Marie Larocque
Résilience des milieux humides de bord de lac aux changements de niveau d'eau

Guillemette Laboratory: Jim Félix-Faure, Roxanne Giguère-Tremblay, Mathieu Michaud, Roxane St-Pierre, Steven Tessier, François Guillemette
Impacts des pratiques agricoles sur la production à la base du réseau trophique aquatique et les flux de carbone dans la plaine d’inondation du Lac Saint-Pierre

Walsh Laboratory: Vera E. Onana, Susanne A. Kraemer, Rebecca E. Garner, Beatrix E. Beisner, David A. Walsh
Deciphering bacterial diversity patterns in temperate lakes at a continental scale

10:40 - Break

11:00 - Oral presentations (moderator: Marco A. Rodríguez)

Gregory-Eaves Laboratory: Paul MacKeigan, Beatrix Beisner, Zofia Taranu, Frances Pick, Irene Gregory-Eaves
Modelling cyanobacteria distribution across hundreds of temperate and subarctic lakes

Rosabal Laboratory: Julien Labrie, Karen Lagueux, Mike Palmer, John Chételat, Marc Amyot, Maikel Rosabal
Gestion intracellulaire d’éléments traces métalliques (Ag, As, Cd, Ce, La, Sb) chez Hyalella azteca récoltées dans la région de Yellowknife

Comte Laboratory: Christophe Langevin, Charis Wong, Martial Leroy, Emily Hallett, Marie-Ange Moisan, Laura Malbezin, Nicholas Kiulia, Jérôme Comte
Ecology of microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems in transition / Écologie des communautés microbiennes dans les écosystèmes aquatiques en transition

Proulx Laboratory: Jérôme Barbeau
Réponse d'évitement aux sons anthropiques par les poissons d’eau douce

Shapiro Laboratory: Naíla Barbosa da Costa, Vincent Fugère, Marie-Pier Hébert, Gregor Fussmann, Andrew Gonzalez, Jesse Shapiro
Glyphosate pollution increases antimicrobial resistance gene frequencies in aquatic mesocosms

12:00 - Second group photo on Zoom

12:05 - Lunch

1:30 - Oral presentations (moderator: Jérôme Comte)

Turgeon Laboratory: Brenden Chabot
How and where exotic species change the Canadian Great Lakes wetlands biodiversity

Lazar Laboratory: Karine Villeneuve
Présentation du laboratoire d'écologie microbienne Lazar

Canceled ***Chokmani Laboratory: Claudie Ratté-Fortin, Karem Chokmani, Isabelle Laurion
A regional model to estimate conditional probability density of phytoplankton bloom occurrence

GRIL awards and closing remarks

2:30 - End of the 30th Annual GRIL Symposium

List of short 180-second presentations

1 - Shahin Badesab, Vincent Fugère, Corentin Flionis, Andrea Bertolo
Impact of land use on zooplankton resting stages banks in a large river floodplain

2 - Pedro Barbosa, Felipe Rust, Pascal Bodmer, Paul del Giorgio
The influence of pelagic metabolism on CO2 dynamics in 3 young boreal cascade-reservoirs (La Romaine complex, Québec)

3 - Alexandre Baud, John Smol, Pierre Francus, Irene Gregory-Eaves
Eastern-Canadian spatio temporal analysis of lake sediment geochemical change: recent declines in heavy metals observed across several ecozones

4 - Christophe Benjamin, Jaclyn Hill, Anthony Ricciardi
Optimal sampling protocols for capturing tench (Tinca tinca) in St. Lawrence River wetlands

5 - Henry Beral
Impacts des espèces végétales sur la performance de biorétentions en climat froid

6 - Pascal Bodmer, Pedro M. Barbosa, Felipe Rust, Paul A. del Giorgio
Spatial dependence of gas transfer velocity in reservoirs: implications for diffusive flux estimates

7 - Giancarlo Cesarello, Isabelle Lavoie, Beatrix Beisner, Sonja Behmel
An innovative approach to assess future scenarios of ecological integrity of lakes based on a watershed wide analysis of multiple factors in the context of climate change

8 - Maya Chahine, Rebecca Garner, David Walsh
Exploring Fungal Diversity in Canadian Lakes

9 - Tania Couture, Pascale Biron
To what extent can the Morphological Quality Index (MQI) be used as a reliable predictor for fish biotic integrity in agricultural streams?

10 - Mathilde Couturier, Yves T. Prairie, Andrew M. Paterson, Erik JS Emilson, Paul del Giorgio
Long term trends in pCO2 in lakes following rebrowning trends in south-central Ontario from 1980 to 2017

11 - Bruno Cremella, Beatrix Beisner, Sylvia Bonilla, Yannick Huot
Characterization of water column niches and ecozone dominance of lake phytoplankton through the subtropical – tundra gradient in North America

12 - Michaela de Melo, Paul del Giorgio
Unraveling the metabolic balance of boreal rivers

13 - Emmanuel Dubois, Marie Larocque, Sylvain Gagné
Simulation of long-term regional-scale groundwater recharge in cold and humid climates – impacts of climate change from the past to the future

14 - Jérémy Dupont, Virginie Ricard-Henderson, Myriam Fontaine, Carolanne Penny, Maikel Rosabal
Évaluation de la contamination d’éléments traces métalliques dans des écosystèmes lacustres de Sudbury (ON) et Rouyn-Noranda (QC) à l’aide d’une espèce sentinelle (perchaude).

15 - Gabriel Duran, Paul del Giorgio
Aquatic-Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes and Carbon Budget of a Boreal Lake in Quebec

16 - Kyleisha Foote, April Mansfield, James Grant, Pascale Biron
Synthesizing our salmonid abundance and habitat knowledge: A global database

17 - Jean-Christophe Gagnon, Louis Astorg, Alison Derry, Cassandre Lazar
Réponse des communautés microbiennes face au syndrome de salinisation des eaux douces

18 - Rebecca Garner, Susanne Kraemer, Vera Onana, Irene Gregory-Eaves, David Walsh
A first view of protist diversity across hundreds of freshwater lakes spanning a temperate to subarctic gradient

19 - Benjamin Groult
Processus écologiques influençant la distribution des bactéries, archées et eucaryotes dans les aquifères

20 - James Harris, Marie Larocque, Sylvain Gagné, Simon Lavoie Lavallée
Simulation of a Canadian Shield lake hydrosystem and its vulnerability to climate change

21 - Robert Hechler, Melania Cristescu
Using environmental RNA (eRNA) to investigate the transcriptomic response of heat stressed Daphnia pulex

22 - Egor Katkov, Gregor Fussmann
Applying Green Science to Mesocosm Research

23 - Henriikka Kivilä, Jean-Simon Boulianne, Milla Rautio
High primary production in late-season ice of a boreal lake

24 - Maude Lachapelle, Zofia Taranu, Irene Gregory-Eaves
Effect of contaminants across contemporary and historical aquatic food webs structures; how environmental gradients act upon bioaccumulation and biomagnification pathways

25 - Joëlle Lafond, Bernard Angers
Détermination sexuelle chez les hybrides : un nouveau rôle pour les spermatozoïdes?

26 - Christophe Langevin, Jérôme Comte, Vani Mohit
La génomique au profit du suivi environnemental

27 - Philippe Le Noac'h, Sebastian Diehl, Beatrix Beisner
Mixotrophy vs. specialist trophic strategies in a stratified water column: a spatial mechanistic modeling approach

28 - Riwan Leroux, Pierre Magnan, Marc Pepino, Andrea Bertolo
Il était une fois le lac Ledoux

29 - Laura Malbezin, Mariem Fadhlaoui, Soizic Morin, Jérôme Comte, Isabelle Lavoie
Effets des pesticides sur les communautés microbiennes des biofilms périphytiques : suivi par une approche multi-descripteur en conditions contrôlées et en milieu naturel

30 - Julia Meyer, Robert Lehmann, Kai-Uwe Totsche, Marie Larocque, Cassandre Lazar
Les communautés microbiennes endolithiques, sessiles et planctoniques de la subsurface terrestre

31 - Marie-Eve Monchamp, David Walsh, Rebecca Garner, Susanne Kraemer, Beatrix Beisner, Melania Cristescu, Irene Gregory-Eaves
A deep dive into zooplankton diversity in canadian lakes: How effective are metagenomes in detecting metazoans?

32 - Linsey Mouatcho, Isabelle Lavoie, Marc Amyot
Biofilms algaux et microplastiques : accumulation et transfert dans les réseaux alimentaires fluviaux

33 - Carolanne Penny, Michelle Garneau, Pierre Taillardat
Exploring potential carbon sinks in Quebec: is the carbon balance negative during the growing season for the Isle-Verte salt marsh (Saint Lawrence estuary)?

34 - Matisse Petit-Prost, Isabelle Lavoie, Monique Poulin, Marylise Cottet
Biodiversité dans les bassins de rétention d’eau pluviale urbains : étude de la diversité et de la composition des communautés avec une approche multi-taxonomique

35 - Hélène Pfister, Geneviève D'Avignon, Anthony Ricciardi
Microplastic trophic transfer in an aquatic food chain of Southern Quebec

36 - Vilmantas Prėskienis, Henriikka Kivilä, Milla Rautio
Boreal exoreic lake in winter: spatial and temporal story of GHG accumulation and transportation under ice

37 - Virginie Ricard-Henderson, Maikel Rosabal Rodriguez, Jérémy Dupont, Dominic E. Ponton, Marc Amyot
Potentiel d’utilisation de larves de Chaoborus en tant qu’espèce sentinelle pour les éléments de terres rares des lacs de deux régions minières canadiennes (Sudbury, Ontario; Rouyn-Noranda, Québec)

38 - Bianca Rodríguez-Cardona, Pascal Bodmer, Felipe Rust, Masumi Stradler, Paul del Giorgio
Nutrient dynamics in La Romaine river and reservoir complex

39 - Mathilde Salamon, Louis Astorg, Antoine Paccard, Rowan Barrett, Alison Derry
Investigating local adaptation to calcium concentration as a refuge to invasive predator impact in native gastropods within a dynamic river ecosystem

40 - Amir Reza Shahabinia, Jean-Francois Lapierre, Mathilde Couturier, Paul del Giorgio
Dissolved organic carbon across Canadian lakes: Concentration and Optical properties

41 - Facundo Smufer, Paul del Giorgio
Large-Scale Geospatial Analysis of Beaver Ponds in a Watershed of Boreal Québec

42 - Masumi Stadler, Paul A. del Giorgio
The relevance of terrestrial and aquatic history in microbial community assembly along a boreal terrestrial-aquatic continuum

43 - Louis Tanguay, Beatrix Beisner, René Audet, Isabelle Lavoie
Emergence of anticipatory governance in the Lake St. Charles’ social-ecological system after a period of social conflicts

44 - Cécilia Teillet, Marco A. Rodríguez, Andrea Bertolo
Modélisation multispécifique de la distribution des communautés de poissons de lac

45 - Daphné Trépanier-Leroux, Melania Cristescu, Dylan Fraser, Alison Derry
ADN environnemental et metabarcoding, des outils prometteurs pour évaluer les réponses des communautés d’invertébrés à l’introduction de truites invasives dans les lacs de montagnes / eDNA metabarcoding for an expanded understanding of how aquatic zooplankton and macroinvertebrates community assemblages respond to exotic trout introduction in mountain lakes

46 - Romain Vrba, Nicolas Creusot, Mélissa Eon, Agnès Feurtet-Mazel, Gwilherm Jan, Nicolas Mazella, Aurélie Moreira, Dolors Planas, Isabelle Lavoie, Soizic Morin
Approche multi-descripteurs pour le suivi des effets interactifs d’un biocide et de la lumière sur les biofilms de rivières

47 - Charis Wong, Geneviève Bordeleau, Jasmin Raymond, Christine Rivard, Jérôme Comte
The spatial-temporal variability of an aquifer’s microbiological-geochemical characteristics as resulted from the operation of a groundwater heat pump system

48 - David Zilkey, Alexandre Baud, Pierre Francus, Dermot Antoniades, Irene Gregory-Eaves
Spatiotemporal analysis of environmental change across Canadian lakes