EXTERNAL SEMINAR - Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institut Pasteur)

Jean-Baptiste Masson (Institut Pasteur) will give a short external seminar, hosted by Christian Vestergaard (CPT).

This seminar will take place in the Amphi 12, Bat B.
CENTURI is also providing for off-campus participants only a zoom link to attend the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85941690095?pwd=Nm5NVGhESGlUbG1FMnZ2dU5vSlkxUT09

Meeting ID: 859 4169 0095
Secret Code: 002024

Title: Embodied neuroAI with drosophila larva

Abstract:

Animals are not free-floating neural networks that perform classification tasks. Our body, the temporal continuity of our actions, and our sensory word shape the properties and computing of biological neural networks. Advances in Drosophila genetic manipulation, neural connectomics, and amortised inference have allowed us to study small neural circuits’ organisation, structure, and function. However, we still have a limited understanding of the forces organising small neural circuits. 

In this presentation, I will address finite element simulations of the Drosophila larva body coupled to neural dynamics simulation of selected circuits, phenotyping larva as a statistical test in a learned latent space, neuromodulation at the single neuron scale and a larva model of Alzheimer’s.