Uriah Daugaard bioinformatics · ecology · pipelines

Talks & Teaching

Conference talks, posters and university teaching by Uriah Daugaard, including the BIO144 data-analysis course at the University of Zurich.

Talks & Teaching

Conference talks and posters on ecological forecasting and species interactions, and undergraduate statistics teaching at the University of Zurich.

Talks

contributed
2024
Biodiversity has opposite effects on the forecastability of species abundances in constant versus declining light. SFE² 2024 · biennial meeting of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution · Lyon · Oct 21-25 2024.
2023
The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology. GfÖ 2023 · 52nd annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland · Leipzig · Sep 12-16 2023.
2022
Forecasting in the face of ecological complexity: number and strength of species interactions determine forecast skill in ecological communities. SFE² GfÖ EEF · International Conference on Ecological Sciences · Metz, France · Nov 21-25 2022.
2022
Forecasting in the face of ecological complexity: number and strength of species interactions determine forecast skill in ecological communities. Biology 2022 · Swiss conference on organismic biology · Basel · Feb 17-18 2022.
2021
Non-consumptive and resource-availability effects in a ciliate predator-prey pair. ESA 2021 · annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America · virtual · Aug 2-6 2021.
2020
Warming can destabilize predator-prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II. BES 2020 · annual meeting of the British Ecological Society · virtual · Dec 14-18 2020.

Posters

first author
Drawing of Paramecium caudatum (ciliate).
Paramecium caudatum
Drawing of a rotifer.
Rotifer sp.

Teaching

lecturer, head TA, R for biologists
lecturer BIO144 UZH · 2024 spring

Data analysis in biology. About 300 second year biology bachelor students per year. Topics include data visualisation and processing, statistical hypothesis testing, linear and logistic and Poisson regression, linear mixed models, intro linear algebra for linear models, goodness of fit. Theoretical lectures paired with practical sessions and flipped classroom videos.

My role. Taught four of the theoretical lectures in 2024.

teaching assistant BIO144 UZH · 2021-2023 spring

Practical exercise support, methodological and computational (R) Q&A, main contact for statistical questions outside class hours, course forum support. Wrote a statistics and computation FAQ for the students proactively.

Head TA in 2022 and 2023. Screening of TA candidates, briefing and organisation of the selected TAs, primary TA contact person.

short course R4All May 12-13 2022

An Introduction to the Basics of R. Two-day course for novice R users with a life and environmental science background.