Gabriel Gellner 
CONTACT
| gabrielgellner [at] gmail.com | |
| phone | (416) 206 -1669 |
EDUCATION & APPOINTMENTS
| University of Guelph | Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2018 – present | Integrative Biology |
| Colorado State University | Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2016 – 2018 | Biology |
| University of California, Davis | Postdoctoral Fellowship | 2014 – 2016 | Environmental Science and Policy |
| University of Guelph | Ph.D. | 2014 | Integrative Biology |
| University of Guelph | M.Sc. | 2010 | Integrative Biology |
| McGill University | B.A. | 2005 | Majors in Mathematics and Economics (Dean’s Honor List) |
RESEARCH
Scientific Publications
| AUTHORS | YEAR | TITLE | JOURNAL | |
| Hastings, Abbott, Cuddington, Francis, Gellner, Lai, Morozov, Petrovskii, Scranton & Zeeman | 2018 | Transient phenomena in ecology | Science | link |
| Kadoya, Gellner & Mccann | 2018 | Potential oscillators and keystone modules in food webs | Ecology Letters | link |
| McCauley, Gellner, Martinez, Williams, Sandin, Micheli, Mumby & McCann | 2018 | On the Prevalence and Dynamics of Inverted Trophic Pyramids and Top-heavy Communities | Ecology Letters | link |
| Jarvis, McCann, Tunney, Gellner & Fryxell | 2016 | Early Warning Indicators Detect Catastrophic Effects of Experimental Warming | Ecology and Evolution | link |
| Gellner, McCann & Hastings | 2016 | The Duality of Stability: Towards a Stochastic Theory of Species Interactions | Theoretical Ecology | link |
| Gellner & McCann | 2016 | On the Consistent Role of Weak and Strong Interactions in Consumptive Food Webs | Nature Communications | link |
| McCann, Gellner, McMeans, Deenik, Holtgrieve, Rooney, Hannah, Cooperman & Nam | 2015 | Food Webs and the Sustainability of Indiscriminate Fisheries | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences | link |
| MacDougal, McCann, Gellner & Turkington | 2013 | Diversity loss with persistent human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse | Nature | link |
| Gellner & McCann | 2012 | Reconciling the Omnivory-Stability Debate | American Naturalist | link |
| Rooney, McCann, Gellner & Moore | 2006 | Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs | Nature | link |
Book Chapters
| AUTHORS | YEAR | TITLE | BOOK | |
| McCann & Gellner | 2012 | Food Chains and Food Web Modules | Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology (Eds. Hastings & Gross) | link |
Conference Presentations
| AUTHORS | YEAR | TITLE | CONFERENCE |
| Gellner*, Webb & Pepin | 2017 | The Role of Spatial Coupling in the Outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) | Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Portland, OR) |
| Gellner*, Webb & Pepin | 2017 | Predicting the Spatial Spread of Avian Influenza (AI) Among Commercial Farms | US Department of Agriculture (Fort Collins, CO) |
| Gellner* & Hastings | 2015 | Decoupling the Stability of Food Web Modules using Implicit Lags and Energy Flux | Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA) |
| Gellner*, McCann & Hastings | 2014 | Understanding the role of intermediate time scales on the stability of classical food web modules | Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Sacramento, CA) |
| Gellner* & McCann | 2013 | Scaling Theory from Food Web Modules to Whole Food Webs | Food Webs Symposium (Giessen, Germany) |
| Gellner* & McCann | 2013 | Deconstructing Complexity: Towards a Theory of Whole Food Webs | Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (Minneapolis, MN) |
| Gellner* & McCann | 2012 | The Geometry of Ecological Stability | Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting (Vancouver, BC) |
TEACHING
Course Instructor
| COURSE | YEAR | UNIVERSITY |
| Energetic Approach to Food Webs | 2012 | International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) South American Institute for Fundamental Research (SAIFR): Sao Paulo, Brazil |
Workshop Leader
| WORKSHOP | YEAR | UNIVERSITY |
| Scientific Modeling: graduate workshops in Mathematica | 2012 | University of Guelph |
Student Advising (with supervising professor)
| Kaela Vogel, Ph.D. student, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (2016): Project collaboration in development of scientific software on the role of pseudospectral methods in food web stability. |
| Yuzhao Li, Ph.D. student, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis (2015): Informal mentorship on the use of dynamical systems for analyzing empirical data. |
| Mike Yodzis, undergraduate lab intern, Integrative Biology, U of Guelph (2011): Mentored student development of lab software for analyzing large food web networks. (Has since completed M.Sc. and now pursuing Ph.D. in Mathematics and Statistics) |
| Lauren Jarvis, B.Sc. student, Integrative Biology, U of Guelph (2011): Co-advised concerning theoretical aspects of her undergraduate thesis project. (Has since completed M.Sc. and now pursuing Ph.D. in Biology) |
Guest Lecturer
| COURSE | YEAR | UNIVERSITY |
| Mathematical Methods in Population Biology | 2015 | UC Davis (graduate level) |
| Population Ecology | 2014 | UC Davis (undergraduate level) |
| Mathematical Methods in Population Biology | 2014 | UC Davis (graduate level) |
| Community Ecology | 2012 | University of Guelph (undergraduate level) |
Teaching Assistant
| COURSE | YEAR | UNIVERSITY |
| Community Ecology | 2012 | University of Guelph |
| Ecology | 2012 | University of Guelph |
| Introduction to Biodiversity | 2011 | University of Guelph |
| Population Ecology | 2010 | University of Guelph |
| Wildlife Conversation and Management | 2007 | University of Guelph |
| Biology 1 | 2006 | University of Guelph |
| Community Ecology | 2006 | University of Guelph |
| Humans in the Natural World | 2005 | University of Guelph |
SERVICE & OUTREACH
| Invited Participant, NIMBioS Working Group, Long Transients and Ecological Forecasting, National Institute for Mathematical Biological Synthesis: Knoxville, TN (2017 – present) |
| Mentor, Google Summer of Code, The Julia Language DiffEQ project (2017, 2018) |
| Judge, Graduate Student Poster Competition, Biology, Colorado State University (2017) |
| Committee member, Integrative Biology Seminar Series, University of Guelph (2012-13) |
| Student member, Integrative Biology Hiring Committee, University of Guelph (2012) |
| Sponsored delegate, SciPy: Conference of Scientific Computing with Python, California Institute of Technology, Burbank, CA (2008) |
| Research consultant: Built tools for data analysis on various wildlife and natural resource focused research projects for industry and university labs (2005 – 2011) |
Journal Reviewer
| Ecology Letters | Functional Ecology | Journal of Animal Ecology |
| Journal of Mathematical Biology | Natural Resource Modeling | Proceedings of the Royal Society B |
| Theoretical Ecology | Theoretical Population Biology |
Professional Affiliations
| Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution (CSEE-SCEE) |
| Ecological Society of America (ESA) |
| Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) |
