Animal Behavior and Social Interactions I

Presentations

• Unravelling the structure of behavioral variation from data

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • ICM Paris

  Authors

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • ICM Paris

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute

  • Claire Wyart

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• Entropy-constrained reconstruction of ancestral behavioral repertoires

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Megan Bishop

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Megan Bishop

    • Emory University

  • Gordon Berman

    • Emory University

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• The Role Of Stochasticity In Fruit Fly Sleep

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Shreenath Guard

    • University of Miami

  Authors

  • Shreenath Guard

    • University of Miami

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• Lifespan measurements of health and behavior in Drosophila melanogaster undergoing longevity-promoting treatments

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Grace McKenzie-Smith

    • Wesleyan University

  Authors

  • Grace McKenzie-Smith

    • Wesleyan University

  • Sarah Kuo

  • Scott Wolf

    • Princeton University

  • Coleen Murphy

  • Joshua Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• Dynamical behavioral aging trajectory of C. elegans

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Elizabeth Duan

    • Emory university

  Authors

  • Elizabeth Duan

    • Emory university

  • Kim Le

  • Hiroki Matsumura

  • Shiv Kumar

  • Hang Lu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Gordon Berman

    • Emory University

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• Undulatory Locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans in Disordered Terrain

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Christopher Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Dmitri Kalinin

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Tianyu Wang

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Yesol Moon

  • Hang Lu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Joint dynamics of turning and crawling in the foraging behavior of D. melanogaster larvae

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Irina Korshok

    • Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology

  Authors

  • Irina Korshok

    • Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology

  • Monika Scholz

    • Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar

  • Greg Stephens

    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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• Non-normal operators underlying legged locomotor dynamics resolve the local/global stability paradox

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Michael Hess

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Michael Hess

    • Emory University

  • Gordon Berman

    • Emory University

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• Mapping the continuum of gait strategies and limb-coupling dynamics in mouse and fly locomotion

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Haolin Liu

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Haolin Liu

    • Princeton University

  • Chenyi Fei

    • MiT

  • Mikhail Kislin

  • Jorn Dunkel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Samuel Wang

  • Joshua Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• How cockroaches traverse large obstacles with the least effort: insights from robophysical modeling

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Publication: Wang Y, Xu L, *Li C, Sensing environmental physical interaction to traverse cluttered obstacles, International Journal of Robotics Research, in review, Preprint

  Presenters

  • Chen Li

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Chen Li

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Yaqing Wang

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• How orb-weaving spiders use dynamic leg crouching to sense prey on a web: insights from robophysical modeling

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Eugene Lin

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Eugene Lin

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Yishun Zhou

  • Luke Moon

  • HSIN-YI HUNG

    • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • Andrew Gordus

  • Chen Li

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Takeoff kinematics in Amazonian jumping spiders

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Jasmine Nirody

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Erin Brandt

  • Alasdair Hastewell

    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology

  • Lin Yan

  • Kaci Rose Goldberg

  • Jasmine Nirody

    • University of Chicago

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