Integrative Biophysics Group

New preprint! Lisa Blum Moyse and Ahmed El Hady delved into model selection and identifiability methods of social evidence accumulation models providing practical guidelines on how to design your next favorite collective foraging experiments, check it: arxiv.org/abs/2609.36231

Very glad that Albin Salazar @latinchemist is joining our group as a postdoctoral fellow where his goal is to wed multi-level paradigms with multi-scale data integration to elucidate mechanistic behaviors pertinent in diverse foraging scenarios.😄

Happy holidays and happy new year from @IntBioPhysics research group . In 2025 , we will continue modeling foraging in more complex ways including : Metabolic costs ? Risk ? Spatial dynamics ? Continuous environment ? Complex Social dynamics ? (Social) Learning ?

Quotes guiding our philosophy of pursuing knowledge at the Integrative Biophysics Group

Fresh data from the field in New York City :D Rats social foraging

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At @IntBioPhysics we are proud to be collaborating with amazing scientists around the world. Check out the map of all our collaborations to date here: exc.uni-konstanz.de/collecti…

Our research group finally has a website 😍 , check it out to see the amazing people we are working with and the research we are doing : exc.uni-konstanz.de/collecti…

Paulo Lopes : a visiting graduate student from the Brain Institute in Natal, Brazil . He will be working on tracking large groups of marmosets monkeys, part of my collaboration with Daniel Takahashi’s lab in Natal . Welcome Paulo !!

Great news: two new lab members . Lisa Blum Moyse, a postdoctoral fellow . She did her PhD in computational neuroscience at the INRIA Lyon Center. She will be working on models of social foraging and applying those models to a variety of experimental data. Welcome Lisa !!

Very proud of our PhD student Maddy @N_Madhansai for presenting her first progress report . A lot of cool data on long term locusts behavior . Can’t wait to tell everyone about it

Group leader Ahmed Elhady (@zamakany ) will giving a talk at the @WeizmannScience workshop on individual and collective decision making . Deadline for abstract submission is Feb 15th, 2023 . Mark your calendars

This year has been great for our group. Time to acknowledge the successes and thank our large collaborators network. Motto of our group: We can't understand decision making without understanding foraging 😁

Big arena tested at the imaging hangar . Very exciting times 🥰 @CBehav

A new study by Ahmed El Hady (@zamakany ) & Co . The same technique functional ultrasound imaging can be used in rats foraging in a naturalistic environment. That's the future 😍 ( illustration by @GilCostaDesign )