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Dr. Daniel Gillis

Dr. Daniel Gillis

Associate Professor, Statistician, Co-founder Farm To Fork, GuelphHacks, and the Improve Life Challenge, Co-creator of the ICON Transdisciplinary Classroom and the Gryphons Care Initiative, former Director of PSEER.

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  • BioI am an Associate Professor & Statistician in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph.
  • Our LabOur research lab is a dynamic interdisciplinary lab made up of undergraduates, graduates, and postgraduates.
  • Join Our TeamInterested in joining our research lab? We are always looking for dynamic undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduates.
  • PublicationsIf you’re interested in our recent publications, you can find a list of them here.
  • Media LinksOur research group has been featured in various media outlets, including Motherboard and BBC World Service Radio

Category: Computer Science

Biology…

New Review: Incomplete Estimates Of Genetic Diversity Within Species

17 Feb 2019
Congratulations to Jarrett Phillips. His paper, Incomplete estimates of genetic diversity within species: implications for DNA barcoding, has just been published in the journal Ecology and Evolution. Continue reading "New…
Community Engaged Scholarship…

International Day Of Women & Girls In Science

12 Feb 2019
Yesterday was the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, and many of my Twitter feeds were full of people celebrating the scientific contributions of women from around the…
Community Engaged Scholarship…

Congratulations Marshall

11 Feb 201911 Feb 2019
A few weeks ago, Marshall Asch, one of the undergraduate members of my lab joined several other School of Computer Science students at McMaster's Delta Hacks hackathon. The annual hackathon…
Community Engaged Scholarship…

The Evolution Of My Lab Meetings

29 Jan 2019
Being on sabbatical for the past 5 months has given me the incredible opportunity to take a step away from my typical teaching and administrative load. It has given me…
Community Engaged Scholarship…

Lab Poster

27 Jan 2019
Last week, Brandon, one of my undergrad students, shared with me a lab poster that was created by Dr. Chris Sutherland (Assistant Professor of Quantitative Population Ecology at the University…
Community Engaged Scholarship…

Week One At Left

25 Jan 2019
This week I've had the opportunity to spend my days working alongside the folks of Left.io in Maple Ridge, British Columbia with the first two interns (Nic and Xuan) of…

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Acknowledgement

Some of the research and work presented here takes place in the ancestral and continued homelands of the original peoples of Labrador: the Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Inuit of NunatuKavut, the Innu of Nitassinan, and their ancestors.  Some of our work also takes place on the ancestral lands of the Katzie, and Lummi people. Finally, we acknowledge that the University of Guelph resides in the ancestral and treaty lands of the Attawandaron people and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and we recognize and honour our Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Métis neighbours.

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Recognitions

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The Quakemaster’s Aftermath
Science Borealis: 100 Voices of Canadian Science Communication
Science Borealis: 100 Voices of Canadian Science Communication [Image by @Vexedmuddler]
Used with permission, copyright Real Scientists.
Used with permission, copyright Real Scientists.

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  • @Farm_2_Fork
  • @SeedFoodHub

  • Bridging The Canadian Divide
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Fingers crossed for tonight.
Morning & dinner time views. #Rigolet
Scenes from a plane. #Rigolet
The adventure continues. #Rigolet
When fries are necessary and the easiest way to get them is to group video chat with @nicdurish
It’s important to keep an accurate record so that historians can fully describe ones exploits.
Sad bunny is sad.
What I’m going to be flying into on Monday with @nicdurish, @compscidr, and @frazerseymour. That’s a lot of snow.
Winter campus.
It’s damn near impossible to type quickly when he’s snuggled up like this, And he annoys the hell out of me when he’s trying to get settled in, but dammit, I love the opportunity to work like this.
Another snow day with this guy.
Ice, fog, sunset - not too shabby.
Snow day naps.
TFW the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change tweets about the @IdeasCongress classroom that you co-created with @shoshanahjacobs at the @UofG
Sunday snuggles.
We couldn’t not stop at Fets @whisky_kitchen while we were visiting. :) #ScotchyScotch
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