Be sure to apply! My lab is hiring as well. go.epfl.ch/ramdya

Week 4: We then implement vision. This allows us to explore a classic visual motion model to drive descending signals for the fly to generate an optomotor response

We then implement olfaction, allowing the students to test how they can use aversive (blue) and attractive (orange) odor sources to control the descending drive and generate chemotaxis

Week 3: In this week, we bring the brain into play starting with a descending drive that can be asymmetric to generate locomotor turning

As well as the tripod gait

Week 2: Next we explored how to control different insect gaits using coupled oscillator models of CPGs. These include the wave gait

EPFL Then they test how modifying the proportional gain of limb actuators affects locomotor posture

EPFL Week 1: In the first week, we install the necessary libraries and introduce students to the model. For example, they replay recorded walking kinematics using a PID controller.

This week I'll be highlighting how we use NeuroMechFly in a Master course EPFL. In the course, our goal is to familiarize students with topics in autonomous, embodied control. We use NeuroMechFly for hands-on exercises and a mini-project.

If I may, there’s something I need to get off my chest.

As democracy remains under siege, it has been frustrating to watch how the press covers politics these days.

I am reminded by lessons that came to me during the Nixon years as a CBS News correspondent, which I’ll add here:…

I am recruiting a postdoc in computational / systems neuroscience to study mechanisms of social communication and cognition in budgerigars. We are cracking this system wide open. Please share. youtu.be/0r7-QvwqVjM

Another gem from the Hiesinger lab👇🏽
Axonal self-sorting without target guidance in Drosophila visual map formation | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm very happy to announce that I've been granted tenure at EPFL!

ethrat.ch/en/appointment…

It's a huge privilege and I owe a great deal to a great many people, especially the lab. Many of whom created science through a global pandemic
EPFL EPFL Life Sciences EPFL Brain Mind Institute EPFL Institute of Bioengineering

Humans run millions of miles on treadmills each year, but sadly no one thought to build a linear treadmill for fruit flies. We decided to fix this oversight. Along the way, we discovered how flies adapt their walking to persevere in difficult situations.🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At CosyneMeeting #Cosyne2024 and feeling jet lagged? Need a chill sesh at the main meeting before the parties pop off?

Get some SLEAP at the main tutorial on Thu, Feb 29 at 12:30pm and learn about *pose tracking on easy mode* via sleap.ai! 😻

I never get tired of looking at neurons. Here are some posters I made from Tyler Sloan's cool FlyWire renders. Explore the connectome: codex.flywire.ai