Mind-bending and intriguing lecture series by Mikhail Gromov on developing a mathematical intuition of living systems
( watch all four lectures for a full overview)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2S...
🚨 Deadline approaching (Apr 16)! Don’t miss your chance to join our student-led #TheoreticalBiophysics workshop. Meals, accommodation + reasonable travel covered for accepted participants.
Apply ➡️ janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Chag Pesach Sameach
After three years , this joint review with my dear friend Emily Jane Dennis is finally in press. The review provides a glimpse on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Out in the next issue of Annual Reviews of Neuroscience.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Excited to share our work exploring how fly larvae flexibly adjust their foraging decisions based on resource quality and valence, shaped by prior experience 🪰🥳! Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Check out our new preprint and learn about the smart foraging behavior of fly larvae!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This study opens up the opportunity to probe the neural mechanisms underlying flexible patch foraging decisions in quantitative manner . For more details, check out our preprint @cbehav.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Integration model captures larval patch foraging behavior
Drosophila larvae adapt their behavior based on past foraging experience
Drosophila larvae adapt their foraging behavior based on resource quality and valence
Drosophila larval foraging depends on resource valence
Drosophila larval foraging depends on resource quality
Along with @katrinvogt.bsky.social , @akhila1498.bsky.social and Klára Tučková we combine long timescale (3 hr) behavioral tracking of Drosophila larvae in patchy environments with varying statistics, along with quantitative analysis and computational modeling, to dissect foraging strategies. 1/n
Are Mate Choice and Patch Foraging similar ?! 🧐
We investigated this in a new study, check it out : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Daniel Bernstein from @princeton.edu and myself asked whether Mate choice can be formalized as foraging problem.
We developed an optimal foraging-inspired model of mate choice. We got interesting mate choice strategies across our parameter spaces. The preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Topics include but are not limited to:Physical principles underlying biological function, Theory of organismal development, Theory of animal behavior and ecological systems, Data driven identification of biophysical principles , Active matter physics, Non–equilibrium thermodynamics of living systems
Participants will include students and postdocs working on a variety of problems in theoretical biophysics, broadly defined. Janelia will cover the cost of accommodation, meals and reasonable travel expenses for accepted participants.
Deadline is approaching (April 16th). Send in your applications . All details here: www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Apply for this workshop at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social
intended as a "by the students, for the students" meeting.
@janeliaconf.bsky.social
Incredibly happy and grateful to see this story published in @currentbiology.bsky.social! As @hannah-haberkern.bsky.social said, this project is a testament to how collaboration and friendship make the best science. Check out the thread on our paper’s findings. ⬇️
Deadline extended to March 25th , send in your Applications 🙌🏾😁
Deadline extended to March 25th , send in your Applications 🙌🏾😁
How do development and genetics shape evidence integration? 🧠 In our new preprint, we dissect how sensory evidence accumulation over time guides decisions.
Want to know more? Keep reading or or come to Roberto's poster 1-003 this Thursday at #Cosyne2026. (1/4)
Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Made it to beautiful Okinawa , Japan . Excited to be hosted by the Research group of Sam Reiter at @oistedu.bsky.social . Will be spending a month here doing exciting research 🙌🏾☺️
Larval Zebrafish can perform evidence integration in a visual random dot motion task.
Here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We developed an automatic high throughput fitting method for latent variables inference studying different zebrafish larvae developmental stages and larval zebrafish mutants.
Deadline is approaching for the best school on collective behavior :D apply now . any questions, just reach out to me.
Our new preprint highlights the importance of quantitative behavioral models in showing that integration parameters are differentially modulated in larval zebrafish mutants so one can relate latent variables to potential biological implementations. Check preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New work from @bahllab.bsky.social et al. 🐟
An exciting study with Roberto Garza and Armin Bahl
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We combine high-throughput behavioral assays in larval zebrafish with drift-diffusion modeling studying integration dynamics across development and a variety of mutants . Give it a read :D
Students & postdocs 👉 Apply by April 16 for our Theoretical Biophysics workshop. Topics include active matter, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, development, behavior, evolution + more.
✈️ Meals, hotel & reasonable travel covered
🔗 janelia.news/THB26
@allysonsgro.bsky.social @zamakany.bsky.social
Cluster community at lunch break with poster session
CASCB members in the audience listening to Armin Bahl's talk
Genuinely delighted about this year’s CASCB Spring Retreat and energized to feel that, as a community, we are exactly where we want and need to be!
Huge thanks to all the incredible people, across academic stages, disciplines, and research-supporting roles, who made this retreat such a success!
