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Gregor Fussmann

Title: 
Professor
Academic title(s): 

Chair, Department of Biology听

Strathcona Chair in Zoology

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Gregor Fussmann
Contact Information
Address: 

Stewart Biology Building, Room N8/15

Phone: 
514-398-1370
Email address: 
gregor.fussmann [at] mcgill.ca
Link(s): 
CV
Research areas: 
Conservation, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour
Biography: 
  • 1996听 PhD, Max Planck Institute for Limnology
  • 1997听 Postdoc, Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University
  • 2001听 Assistant Professor, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • 2004听 Associate Professor, 黑料社
  • 2016听 Professor, 黑料社
Areas of expertise: 

Community ecology, Evolutionary ecology, Aquatic ecology

Current research: 
  • Population and community dynamics
  • The interplay of ecological and evolutionary dynamics (eco-evolutionary dynamics)
  • Freshwater community response to global/climate change
  • Nutrient limitation in lakes - including CO2
  • Freshwater winter and under-ice ecology
  • Host-parasite dynamics

Approach: both theoretical and empirical (laboratory and field experiments with aquatic organisms)

Graduate supervision: 

MSc: Danny Gedig, Sabrina Therrien

MSc (recent): Kaushar Kagzi, Allegra Pearce

PhD (recent): Marie-Pier H茅bert, Egor Katkov, Na铆la Barbosa da Costa (U de Montr茅al)

Postdocs (recent): Egor Katkov, Allison Roth

Courses: 

BIOL 305. Animal Diversity.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

The characteristics of the major groups of animals, their ancestry, history and relationship to one another. The processes of speciation, adaptive radiation and extinction responsible for diversity. Methods for constructing of phylogenies, for comparing phenotypes, and for estimating and analyzing diversity.
  • Winter
  • 2 hours lecture and 1 three-hour laboratory
  • Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

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BIOL 311. Advanced Methods in Organismal Biology.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Application of methods and techniques used by organismal biologists, paired with the design of sampling programs to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data, and the analysis of data. Topics include DNA barcoding/metabarcoding and experimental evolution.
  • Prerequisites: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219; BIOL 206, COMP 204, and BIOL 202 or BIOL 302.
  • Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken BIOL 206 prior to Fall 2020

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BIOL 395. Quantitative Biology Seminar.

Credits: 1
Offered by: Biology (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Overview of concepts and current research in quantitative biology; theoretical ecology and evolution, computational biology, and physical biology.
  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: BIOL 219; or BIOL 200 plus BIOL 201 or ANAT 212 or BIOC 212; CHEM 212; COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 250; MATH 222; or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students in the following programs: B.Sc. Major and Honours Biology-- Quantitative Biology option; B.Sc. Major and Honours Computer Science and Biology; BSc Major Biology and Mathematics; BSc Major Physiology and Mathematics; BSc Major Physiology and Physics; BSc Major and Honours Chemistry-- Biophysical Chemistry; and B.Sc. Major and Honours Physics--Biological Physics.

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Selected publications: 

MP H茅bert, BE Beisner, M Rautio, GF Fussmann (2021) Warming winters in lakes: Later ice onset promotes consumer overwintering and shapes springtime planktonic food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 118, e2114840118.

V Fug猫re, MP H茅bert, NB Costa, CCY Xu, RDH Barrett, BE Beisner, G Bell, GF Fussmann, BJ Shapiro, V Yargeau, A Gonzalez (2020) Community rescue in experimental phytoplankton communities facing severe herbicide pollution. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 578鈥�588.

B Blasius, L Rudolf, G Weithoff, U Gaedke, GF Fussmann (2020) Long-term cyclic persistence in an experimental predator-prey system. Nature 577, 226-230.

E Katkov, E Low-D茅carie, GF Fussmann (2020) Intra-annual variation in the response of phytoplankton to factorial manipulation of N, P and CO2 in a temperate mesotrophic lake. Freshwater Biology 65, 960-970.

CP Tadiri, ME Scott, GF Fussmann (2018) Microparasite dispersal in metapopulations: A boon or bane to the host population? Proceedings B 285, 20181519.

E Low-D茅carie, GF Fussmann, G Bell (2014) Aquatic primary production in a high-CO2 world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29, 223-232.

F Dargent, ME Scott, AP Hendry, GF Fussmann (2013) Experimental elimination of parasites in nature leads to the evolution of increased resistance in hosts. Proceedings B 280, 20132371.

C Kovach-Orr, GF Fussmann (2013) Evolutionary and plastic rescue in multitrophic model communities. Philosophical Transactions B 368, 20120084.

GF Fussmann, A Gonzalez (2013) Evolutionary rescue can maintain an oscillating community undergoing environmental change. Interface Focus 3, 20130036.

GF Fussmann, B Blasius (2005) Community response to enrichment is highly sensitive to model structure. Biology Letters 1, 9-12.

T Yoshida, LE Jones, SP Ellner, GF Fussmann, NG Hairston Jr. (2003) Rapid evolution drives ecological dynamics in a predator-prey system. Nature 424, 303-306.

GF Fussmann, SP Ellner, KW Shertzer, NG Hairston Jr. (2000) Crossing the Hopf bifurcation in a live predator-prey system. Science 290, 1358-1360.

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