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Predicting the long-term collective behaviour of fish pairs with deep learning
Francesco Mondada, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Vaios Papaspyros
Modern computing has enhanced our understanding of how social interactions shape collective behaviour in animal societies. Although analytical models dominate in studying collective behaviour, this study introduces a deep learning model to assess social in ...
2024Biohybrid Superorganisms—On the Design of a Robotic System for Thermal Interactions With Honeybee Colonies
Francesco Mondada, Robert Matthew Mills, Rafael Botner Barmak, Raphael Cherfan
Social insects, such as ants, termites, and honeybees, have evolved sophisticated societies where collaboration and division of labor enhance survival of the whole colony, and are thus considered “superorganisms”. Historically, studying behaviors involving ...
2024Engineering hydrogel microenvironments for epithelial organoid culture
Organoids, miniature tissues generated from self-organizing stem cells within three-dimensional (3D) extracellular matrices (ECM), have opened up exciting possibilities for in vitro studies of complex physiological processes. A key factor in the success of ...
EPFL2024Beyond undulation! Body morphology and sensing components of elongated animals and robots reveal skills to maintain competent locomotion
Locomotion is an essential evolutive innovation of living beings that allows them to colonize and dominate the planet. As diverse as animal morphologies are (living) and were (extinct), their locomotion modalities are also diverse. In particular, animal mo ...
EPFL2023Paris, Transit: plate-forme alimentaire du dernier kilomètre
Manuel Rossi, Marie-Ange Farrell
Au nord de la Porte de la Villette, un hypermarché et un parking désaffectés, communément appelé « le Mausolée », s’insèrent transversalement sous la ceinture continue que constitue le boulevard périphérique, entre la ville-centre et le périurbain. Ce mono ...
2023The nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio drives cellularization in the close animal relative Sphaeroforma arctica
Omaya Pierre Dudin, Marine Olivetta
The ratio of nuclear content to cytoplasmic volume (N/C ratio) is a key regulator driving the maternal-to -zy-gotic transition in most animal embryos. Altering this ratio often impacts zygotic genome activation and de-regulates the timing and outcome of em ...
CELL PRESS2023Photobiology and metabolic interactions in the symbiotic jellyfish Cassiopea
The symbiont-bearing jellyfish Cassiopea live a benthic lifestyle, positioning themselves upside-down on sediments in shallow waters to allow their endosymbiotic algae to photosynthesize in the sunlight. Over the last decades Cassiopea has become increasin ...
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