Animal Behavior and Social Interactions I

Presentations

• Unravelling the structure of behavioral variation from data

  ORAL · Invited

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

  Presenters

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • ICM Paris

  Authors

  • Antonio Carlos Costa

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • ICM Paris

  • Gautam Sridhar

    • Paris Brain Institute
    • Sorbonne University

  • Claire Wyart

    • Paris Brain Institute

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• Entropy-constrained reconstruction of ancestral behavioral repertoires

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Megan E Bishop

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Megan E Bishop

    • Emory University

  • Gordon J Berman

    • Emory University

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• The Role Of Stochasticity In Fruit Fly Sleep

  ORAL

  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

  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 J Kuo

    • Princeton University

  • Scott W Wolf

    • Princeton University

  • Coleen T Murphy

    • Princeton University

  • Joshua W Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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• Dynamical behavioral aging trajectory of C. elegans

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Elizabeth Z Duan

    • Emory university

  Authors

  • Elizabeth Z Duan

    • Emory university

  • Kim N Le

    • Georgia Tech

  • Hiroki Matsumura

    • Georiga Tech

  • Shiv Kumar

    • Georiga Tech

  • Hang Lu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Gordon J Berman

    • Emory University

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• Undulatory Locomotion of Caenorhabditis elegans in Disordered Terrain

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Christopher J Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Christopher J Pierce

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Dmitri Kalinin

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Tianyu Wang

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Yesol Moon

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Hang Lu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Daniel I Goldman

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Tech

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Irina Korshok

    • OIST Graduate University

  Authors

  • Irina Korshok

    • OIST Graduate University

  • Monika Scholz

    • Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar
    • Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior - caesar

  • Greg J Stephens

    • OIST Graduate University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Michael Hess

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Michael Hess

    • Emory University

  • Gordon J Berman

    • Emory University

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

  ORAL

  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

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  • Jorn Dunkel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Samuel S Wang

    • Princeton University

  • Joshua W Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

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

  ORAL

  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

  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

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Luke Moon

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • HSIN-YI HUNG

    • Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • Andrew Gordus

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Chen Li

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Takeoff kinematics in Amazonian jumping spiders

  ORAL

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

  Presenters

  • Jasmine A Nirody

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA
    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Erin E Brandt

    • Grand Valley State University

  • Alasdair D Hastewell

    • NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, Chicago IL, 60611, USA
    • National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Lin Yan

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Kaci Rose Goldberg

    • University of Chicago

  • Jasmine A Nirody

    • University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 60615, USA
    • University of Chicago

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