MONTHLY RESEARCH TALKS

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Past Presentations

2026

Brian Taylor, Case Western Reserve University, "Biological and Bioinspired Magnetic Reception and Multimodal Sensing"

Ansgar Büschges, University of Cologne, "Motor Flexibility: proprioceptive feedback and its task-specific role in insect walking"

Dr. Kate Feller, Union College, "Bringing down the ballistic hammer: insights into the neural control of mantis shrimp strikes"

2025

Dr. Emily Baird, Stockholm University, "Introducing the Animal Navigation Group of the Royal Institute of Navigation"

Dr. Sweta Agrawal, Virginia Tech University, "Moving through uncertainty: neural circuits of adaptive motor control"

Dr. Casper van der Kooi, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, "Tuning of floral optical properties to pollinator visual systems"

Dr. Nicholas S. Szczecinski, West Virginia University, "Exploring neuromechanical intelligence through computational and robotic modeling"

Prof. Dr Ir Florian Muijres, Wageningen University & Research, "The comparative biofluidmechanics of Diptera flight"

Dr. Vikram Iyer, University of Washington, "Energy harvesting autonomous microrobots"

Prof. Eric Warrant, Head of the Lund Vision Group, University of Lund, "The multisensory basis of nocturnal long-distance navigation in the Australian Bogong moth"

Dr. Jessica Fox, Case Western Reserve University, "Inertial sensing for fly flight: controls and consequences"

Prof. Jérôme Casas, Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte -IRBI- Tours, "Insect antennal architecture and active sensing for enhanced olfaction"

Dr. Nicole Xu, CU Boulder, "A spectrum of bioinspired and biohybrid swimming robots for real-world applications"

2024

Dr. Guido de Croon, Delft University of Technology, NL, "Bio-inspired, neuromorphic AI for tiny, autonomous drones"

Dr. Christina Harvey, UC Davis, US, "A bio-informed approach to study complex flight maneuvers"

Dr. Simon Walker, University of Leeds, UK, "Kinematic acquisition and behavioural flicker fusion frequency in insects"

Sam Stanton, United States Air Force Academy Department of Aeronautics, US, "Shoulder viscoelasticity alleviates instability and enables gust resilience in a raptor-inspired model"

Chris Richards,  Royal Veterinary College, UK , "Frogs as models for robotics, limb control and muscular ageing"

Sarah Bergbrieter, Carnegie Mellon University,  US, "Bio-inspired mechanosensors for flight"

Emily Baird, Stockholm University, Sweden, Exploring the effect of light and heat on insect sensing and flight control

Simon Sponberg, Georgia Institute of Technology,  US, "Orchestrating a comprehensive, spike-resolved motor program for agile insect flight"

Richard Bomphrey, Royal Veterinary College, UK, "Auditory communication in mosquitoes: how properties of both the signal and receiver change with temperature"

Kaushik Jayaram, University of Colorado Boulder, US, "Towards distributed proprioception for insect-scale robots”

2023

Einat Couzin-Fuchs, University of Konstanz, DE, "Sensory integration across modalities and individuals in swarm-forming locusts"

Huai-Ti Lin, Imperial College, UK, “The biomechanics of sensory bristles on the dragonfly wings in the context of flow sensing”

Laura Bagge, AFRL, "Resplendent reflections: circular polarization in jewel scarabs"

Jean-Michel Mongeau, Pennsylvania State University, US, "Flying in an Uncertain World: Decoding rules of adaptive control in fly flight"

Tom Daniel, University of Washington, US, Presentation and discussion about AFOSR and related funding opportunities

Graham Taylor, University of Oxford, UK, AND 10 minutes on BAA/funding, "Visually-guided flight in birds: pursuit, evasion, and collision-avoidance"

Sönke Johnsen, Duke University, US, "The biophotonics of ultrablack coloration in butterflies and deep-sea fish"

Anna Stöckl, University of Konstanz, DE, "Visual guidance of flower interactions in bumblebees and hawkmoths"

Doug Altshuler, University of British Columbia, CA “Optic flow circuits and the visual guidance of avian flight”

2022

Tom Daniel, University of Washington, US, Background and future plans of BISCCIT

Sergio Araujo-Estrada, University of Southampton, UK, "Distributed Sensing and Novel Control Techniques for Agile Robotics"

Lori Schweikert, University of North Carolina Wilmington, US, "Investigating the 'Hide and Seek' of Multisensory Integration"

Sawyer Fuller, University of Washington, US, "Using technology from insect-sized flying robots to sense the environment and track small flying animals"

Marie Dacke, Lund University, SE, "How to steer straight: the integration of multimodal directional cues"

Mark Frye, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), US, "Sensory biomechanics for target vision"

Sanjay Sane, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), IN, "The integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory cues in hawkmoths"