Save the Date for the 2026 BISCCITs Workshop! June 22-24, 2026, Wageningen, NL
updated: 2026-03-05
To learn more about the research being conducted by the team, please see the list of publications by BISCCITs members.
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Kiran Weston, Huanglun Adam Zhu, Graham Keith Taylor, Christina Harvey; "Stability shifts in gliding flight: hawks morph from an unstable to stable state when navigating a gap." Journal of the Royal Society Interface 2026
Hand, James; Watson, Bryan, "Faulted Agent Resilience in Multi-Agent Systems: An Exploration of Two Ant Inspired Strategies," INCOSE International Symposium, 2025
Hand, James; Watson, Bryan, "A guide to eusocial insect faulted agent resilience and its engineering applications," Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2025
Hand, James; Watson, Bryan, "MilliSwarm: Leveraging Emergence for Energy Efficient Robotic Swarm Movement," INCOSE International Symposium, 2025
Swore, Joshua; Anderson, Melanie; Dominguez, Marissa; Daniel, Tom; Riffell, Jeff, "Classification of Odor-Derived Electroantennograms with Machine Learning", Integrative Organismal Biology, 2025
Shen, Huan; Cao, Kai; Liu, Chao; Wen, Shikun; Li, Qian; Zhang, Xiyuan; Zhang, Haibing; Han, Qingfei; Zhang, Ping; Chen, Hengbo; Xu, Jiajun; Tang, Chufei; Wei, Rongping; Zhang, Guiquan; Liu, Dingzhen; Dai, Zhendong; Ji, Aihong, "Slow and Steady: an Analysis of Locomotion Behavior in Giant Pandas", Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2025
Chen, Changyao; Cheney, Jorn A; Usherwood, James R; Bomphrey, Richard J; Song, Jialei, "The stability implications of drag minimization by tail action modelled in the gliding barn owl ( Tyto alba )", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025
Yarger, Alexandra M.; Maeda, Masateru; Siwanowicz, Igor; Kajiyama, Haruhiro; Walker, Simon M.; Bomphrey, Richard J.; Lin, Huai-Ti, "Structural dynamics and neural representation of wing deformation", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
Blake, Adam J.; Riffell, Jeffrey A., "Spectral preferences of mosquitos are altered by odors", The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2025
Wang, Lu-Yi; Stuart-Fox, Devi; Lee, Ko-Huan; Black, Jay; Franklin, Amanda M., "A new ultrafast movement enables escape at low temperature", Communications Biology, 2025
Stuart-Fox, Devi; Rankin, Katrina Joanne; Scott, Madeleine Shah; Wang, Lu-Yi; Franklin, Amanda M., "Infrared camouflage in leaf-sitting frogs: a cautionary tale on adaptive convergence", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025
Belušič, Gregor; de Hoop, Sander B.; Bencúrová, Elena; Lazar, Domen; Spaethe, Johannes; Kooi, Casper J. van der, "Remarkable red colour vision in two Mediterranean beetle pollinators", The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2025
Cheng, Li-Shan; Charng, Ching-Che; Chen, Ruei-Huang; Feng, Kuan-Lin; Chiang, Ann-Shyn; Lo, Chung-Chuan; Lee, Ting-Kuo, "Hybrid neural networks in the mushroom body drive olfactory preference in Drosophila", Science Advances, 2025
Biswas, Debojyoti; Sontag, Eduardo D.; Cowan, Noah J., "An exact active sensing strategy for a class of bio-inspired systems", European Journal of Control, 2025
Dreyer, David; Adden, Andrea; Chen, Hui; Frost, Barrie; Mouritsen, Henrik; Xu, Jingjing; Green, Ken; Whitehouse, Mary; Chahl, Javaan; Wallace, Jesse; Hu, Gao; Foster, James; Heinze, Stanley; Warrant, Eric, "Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night", Nature, 2025
Supple, Jack A.; Cerkvenik, Uroš; Ilić, Marko; Pirih, Primož; Škorjanc, Aleš; Belušič, Gregor; Krapp, Holger G., "Spectral Matched Filtering in the Butterfly Visuomotor System", bioRxiv, 2025
Kabutz, Heiko; Jayaram, Kaushik, "Integrated proprioceptive piezoelectric actuators for miniature robots and devices", Smart Materials and Structures, 2025
Meng, Lingsheng; McDonnell, Parker; Jayaram, Kaushik; Mongeau, Jean-Michel, "Mechanical and morphological features of the cockroach antenna confer flexibility, reveal a kinematic chain system and predict strain information for proprioception", bioRxiv, 2025
McDonnell, Parker; Meng, Lingsheng; Hariprasad, Hari Krishna; Hedrick, Alexander; Miscles, Eduardo; Gilinsky, Samuel; Mongeau, Jean-Michel; Jayaram, Kaushik, "Design of a bioinspired robophysical antenna for insect-scale tactile perception and navigation", arXiv, 2025
Andrews, Nicholas B; Morgansen, Kristi A, "Nonlinear Modeling and Observability of a Planar Multi-Link Robot with Link Thrusters", arXiv, 2025
Schweikert, Lorian E.; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D.; Ayoglu, Umut; Johnsen, Sönke, "Strategies and significance of self-assessing dynamic visual appearance", Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2025
Liu, Belle; White, Alexander James; Lo, Chung-Chuan, "Augmenting flexibility: mutual inhibition between inhibitory neurons expands functional diversity", iScience, 2025
Hyun, Nak-seung P.; Chan, Christian M.; Hernandez, Alyssa M.; Wood, Robert J., "Sticking the landing: Insect-inspired strategies for safely landing flapping-wing aerial microrobots", Science Robotics, 2025
Harris, Olivia K; Congelli, Maria; Morehouse, Nathan I, "Sensory exploitation of insect face cues by courting male peacock spiders: a test using computer vision", Behavioral Ecology, 2025
Thomas, Lenworth; Bridges, Tjaden; Bergbreiter, Sarah, "Airflow Source Seeking on Small Quadrotors Using a Single Flow Sensor", 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
Ward, Timothy; Mukherjee, Sourish; Windsor, Shane P.; Araujo-Estrada, Sergio A., "Aerodynamic State Estimation of a Bio-Inspired Distributed Sensing UAV at High Angles of Attack and Sideslip", 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2025
Fan, Xiaozhou; Bortoni, Alberto; Hao, Siyang; Swartz, Sharon; Breuer, Kenneth, "Upstroke wing clapping in bats and bat-inspired robots offers efficient lift generation", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2025
Penn, Matthew; Yi, George; Watkins, Simon; Windsor, Shane P.; Mohamed, Abdulghani, "A wind-tunnel gust generator for soaring birds and small UAVs", The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2025
Boulanger, Matthew D.; Miyamae, Juri A.; Martin, Tara; Hish, Gerry; Moore, Talia Y., "Computer Vision for Lesser Egyptian Jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) Behavioral Analysis and Animal Care Refinement", bioRxiv, 2025
Mierow, Tanner T.; Wardill, Trevor J.; Kingston, Alexandra C. N., "Praying Mantids Adjust Head and Thorax Saccades to Track Visual Stimuli Moving at Different Speeds", Journal of Insect Behavior, 2025
Lionetti, Seth; Lei, Menglong; Hedrick, Tyson L.; Li, Chengyu, "Benefits of low-speed flight in odor-tracking navigation for hawkmoths", Physics of Fluids, 2025
Hernandez, Isabella; Watson, Bryan C.; Weissburg, Marc J.; Bras, Bert, "Using functional decomposition to bridge the design gap between desired emergent multi-agent-system resilience and individual agent design," Systems Engineering, 2024
Hadipoernomo, Jessica Christa Wira; Watson, Bryan C, "Sandpiper Food Search Algorithm: A New Optimization Algorithm With Limited Knowledge," Volume 3B: 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024
Rogoll, Olivier; Wierzbanowski, Benjamin; Watson, Bryan C, "Evaluating the Scalability and Combinatorial Effectiveness of Design-for-Resilience Heuristics," INCOSE International Symposium, 2024
Baliga, Vikram B.; Dakin, Roslyn; Wylie, Douglas R.; Altshuler, Douglas L., "Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight", Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2024
Franklin, Amanda M.; Brown, Molly R.; Willmott, Nikolas J., "Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey", Current Biology, 2024
Gupta, Prashant; Chandak, Rishabh; Debnath, Avishek; Traner, Michael; Watson, Brendan M.; Huang, Hengbo; Derami, Hamed Gholami; Baldi, Harsh; Chakrabartty, Shantanu; Raman, Baranidharan; Singamaneni, Srikanth, "Augmenting insect olfaction performance through nano-neuromodulation", Nature Nanotechnology, 2024
Gill, Jeffrey P; Taylor, Brian K, "Navigation by magnetic signatures in a realistic model of Earth's magnetic field", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2024
Piephoff, Faye; Taylor, Brian K.; Kehl, Catherine E.; Mota, Bruno; Harley, Cynthia M., "Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2024
Vasas, Vera; Lowell, Mark C.; Villa, Juliana; Jamison, Quentin D.; Siegle, Anna G.; Katta, Pavan Kumar Reddy; Bhagavathula, Pushyami; Kevan, Peter G.; Fulton, Drew; Losin, Neil; Kepplinger, David; Yetzbacher, Michael K.; Salehian, Shakiba; Forkner, Rebecca E.; Hanley, Daniel, "Recording animal-view videos of the natural world using a novel camera system and software package", PLOS Biology, 2024
Oliva, Damián; Gültig, Matias; Cámera, Alejandro; Tomsic, Daniel, "Freezing of movements and its correspondence with MLG1 neuron response to looming stimuli in the crab Neohelice", Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024
Ospina-Rozo, Laura; Medina, Iliana; Hugall, Andrew; Rankin, Katrina J.; Roberts, Nicholas W.; Roberts, Ann; Mitchell, Andrew; Reid, Chris A. M.; Moussalli, Adnan; Stuart-Fox, Devi, "Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles", Scientific Reports, 2024
Cellini, Benjamin; Ferrero, Marioalberto; Mongeau, Jean-Michel, "Drosophila flying in augmented reality reveals the vision-based control autonomy of the optomotor response", Current Biology, 2024
Araújo, Priscila; Belušič, Gregor; Ilić, Marko; Foster, James; Pfeiffer, Keram; Baird, Emily, "Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes", Biology Letters, 2024
Gérard, Maxence; Gardelin, Erika; Lehmann, Philipp; Roberts, Kevin T.; Sepúlveda-Rodíguez, Guadalupe; Sisquella, Clara; Baird, Emily, "Experimental elevated temperature affects bumblebee foraging and flight speed", Proceedings B, 2024
Cellini, Benjamin; Boyacıoğlu, Burak; Stupski, Stanley David; van Breugel, Floris, "Discovering and exploiting active sensing motifs for estimation with empirical observability", bioRxiv, 2024
Gaede, Andrea H.; Wu, Pei-Hsuan; Leitch, Duncan B., "Variations in touch representation in the hummingbird and zebra finch forebrain", Current Biology, 2024
Boyacıoğlu, Burak; van Breugel, Floris, "Duality of Stochastic Observability and Constructability and Links to Fisher Information", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024
McNutt, Brody; Zhang, Libby; Carey-Douglas, Angus; Vollrath, Fritz; Pope, Frank; Brickson, Leandra, "Whole-Herd Elephant Pose Estimation from Drone Data for Collective Behavior Analysis", arXiv, 2024
Stupski, S. David; van Breugel, Floris, "Wind gates olfaction-driven search states in free flight", Current Biology, 2024
Groves-Raines, Mario Martinez; Yi, George; Penn, Matthew; Watkins, Simon; Windsor, Shane; Mohamed, Abdulghani, "Steady as they hover: kinematics of kestrel wing and tail morphing during hovering flights", The Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024
Rimniceanu, Martha; Limbania, Daniela; Wasserman, Sara M.; Frye, Mark A., "Divergent visual ecology of Drosophila species drives object-tracking strategies matched to landscape sparsity", Current Biology, 2024
Garner, Dustin; Kind, Emil; Lai, Jennifer Yuet Ha; Nern, Aljoscha; Zhao, Arthur; Houghton, Lucy; Sancer, Gizem; Wolff, Tanya; Rubin, Gerald M.; Wernet, Mathias F.; Kim, Sung Soo, "Connectomic reconstruction predicts visual features used for navigation", Nature, 2024
Tibbetts, Elizabeth A; Harris, Olivia K; Morehouse, Nathan I; Caves, Eleanor M, "The Evolution of Simplifying Heuristics in Visual Cognition: Categorization, Specialization, and Visual Illusions", Annual Review of Vision Science, 2024
Steck, Mireille; Hanscom, Sophia J.; Iwanicki, Tom; Sung, Jenny Y.; Outomuro, David; Morehouse, Nathan I.; Porter, Megan L., "Secondary not subordinate: Opsin localization suggests possibility for color sensitivity in salticid secondary eyes", Vision Research, 2024
Martin, Owen; Nguyen, Chantal; Sarfati, Raphael; Chowdhury, Murad; Iuzzolino, Michael L.; Nguyen, Dieu My T.; Layer, Ryan M.; Peleg, Orit, "Embracing firefly flash pattern variability with data-driven species classification", Scientific Reports, 2024
Shin, Hee-Sup; Bergbreiter, Sarah, "A Modular Soft Sensing Skin for Fast Measurement of Wing Deformation in Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", Soft Robotics, 2024
Kent, Teresa A.; Bergbreiter, Sarah, "Flow Shadowing: A Method to Detect Multiple Flow Headings using an Array of Densely Packed Whisker-inspired Sensors", 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Boerma, David B.; Swartz, Sharon M., "Roosting ecology drives the evolution of diverse bat landing maneuvers", iScience, 2024
Li, Chenhao; Stanger-Jones, Elijah; Heim, Steve; Kim, Sangbae, "FLD: Fourier Latent Dynamics for Structured Motion Representation and Learning", arXiv, 2024
Zhang, Jenny; Heim, Steve; Jeon, Se Hwan; Kim, Sangbae, "Learning Emergent Gaits with Decentralized Phase Oscillators: on the role of Observations, Rewards, and Feedback", arXiv, 2024
Stanchak, K E; Deora, T; Weber, A I; Hickner, M K; Moalin, A; Abdalla, L; Daniel, T L; Brunton, B W, "Intraspecific Variation in the Placement of Campaniform Sensilla on the Wings of the Hawkmoth Manduca Sexta", Integrative Organismal Biology, 2024
Fabian, Samuel T.; Sondhi, Yash; Allen, Pablo E.; Theobald, Jamie C.; Lin, Huai-Ti, "Why flying insects gather at artificial light", Nature Communications, 2024
Rimniceanu, Martha; Currea, John P.; Frye, Mark A., "Proprioception gates visual object fixation in flying flies", Current Biology, 2023
Salido, Carla A.; Gancedo, Brian J.; Tomsic, Daniel, "To escape or to pursue: opposite decision making concerning a single moving object is influenced by starvation and sex", Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023
Biswas, Debojyoti; Lamperski, Andrew; Yang, Yu; Hoffman, Kathleen; Guckenheimer, John; Fortune, Eric S.; Cowan, Noah J., "Mode switching in organisms for solving explore-versus-exploit problems", Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023
Stuart-Fox, Devi; Ng, Leslie; Elgar, Mark A.; Hölttä-Otto, Katja; Schröder-Turk, Gerd E.; Voelcker, Nicolas H.; Watson, Gregory S., "Bio-informed materials: three guiding principles for innovation informed by biology", Nature Reviews Materials, 2023
Talley, Jennifer; Pusdekar, Siddhant; Feltenberger, Aaron; Ketner, Natalie; Evers, Johnny; Liu, Molly; Gosh, Atishya; Palmer, Stephanie E.; Wardill, Trevor J.; Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma T., "Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly", Current Biology, 2023
Stuart-Fox, Devi; Ng, Leslie; Barner, Leonie; Bennett, Andrew T. D.; Blamires, Sean J.; Elgar, Mark A.; Evans, Alistair R.; Franklin, Amanda M.; Hölttä-Otto, Katja; Hutchison, James A.; Jativa, Fernando; Jessop, Anna-Lee; Kelley, Jennifer; McGaw, Janet; Mei, Jun; Mirkhalaf, Mohammad; Musameh, Mustafa; Neto, Chiara; O'Connor, Andrea J.; Schork, Tim; Schröder-Turk, Gerd E.; Voelcker, Nicolas H.; Wang, Anna; Watson, Gregory S.; Watson, Jolanta A.; Wesemann, Lukas; Wong, Wallace W. H., "Challenges and opportunities for innovation in bioinformed sustainable materials", Communications Materials, 2023
Brickson, Leandra; Zhang, Libby; Vollrath, Fritz; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Titus, Alexander J., "Elephants and algorithms: a review of the current and future role of AI in elephant monitoring", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2023
Weber, Alison I.; Babaei, Mahnoush; Mamo, Amanuel; Brunton, Bingni W.; Daniel, Thomas L.; Bergbreiter, Sarah, "Nonuniform structural properties of wings confer sensing advantages", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2023
Ospina-Rozo, Laura; Priscilla, Niken; Hutchison, James; de Meene, Allison van; Roberts, Nicholas W.; Stuart-Fox, Devi; Roberts, Ann, "Deconstructed beetles: Bilayered composite materials produce green coloration with remarkably high near-infrared reflectance", Materials Today Advances, 2023
Sharkey, Camilla R; Blanco, Jorge; Lord, Nathan P; Wardill, Trevor J, "Jewel Beetle Opsin Duplication and Divergence Is the Mechanism for Diverse Spectral Sensitivities", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023
Bidel, Flavie; Bennett, Natalie C.; Wardill, Trevor J., "Octopus bimaculoides' arm recruitment and use during visually evoked prey capture", Current Biology, 2022
Barnatan, Yair; Tomsic, Daniel; Cámera, Alejandro; Sztarker, Julieta, "Matched function of the neuropil processing optic flow in flies and crabs: the lobula plate mediates optomotor responses in Neohelice granulata", Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
Grover, Dhruv; Chen, Jen-Yung; Xie, Jiayun; Li, Jinfang; Changeux, Jean-Pierre; Greenspan, Ralph J., "Differential mechanisms underlie trace and delay conditioning in Drosophila", Nature, 2022
Salem, Wael; Cellini, Benjamin; Kabutz, Heiko; Prasad, Hari Krishna Hari; Cheng, Bo; Jayaram, Kaushik; Mongeau, Jean-Michel, "Flies trade off stability and performance via adaptive compensation to wing damage", Science Advances, 2022
Shishkov, Olga; Chen, Claudia; Madonna, Claire Allison; Jayaram, Kaushik; Peleg, Orit, "Strength-mass scaling law governs mass distribution inside honey bee swarms", Scientific Reports, 2022
Sarfati, Raphaël; Peleg, Orit, "Chimera states among synchronous fireflies", Science Advances, 2022
Mohamed, A.; Taylor, G. K.; Watkins, S.; Windsor, S. P., "Opportunistic soaring by birds suggests new opportunities for atmospheric energy harvesting by flying robots", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2022
Fabian, Samuel T.; Sumner, Mary E.; Wardill, Trevor J.; Gonzalez-Bellido, Paloma T., "Avoiding obstacles while intercepting a moving target: a miniature fly's solution", Journal of Experimental Biology, 2022
Steinhardt, Emma; Hyun, Nak-seung P.; Koh, Je-sung; Freeburn, Gregory; Rosen, Michelle H.; Temel, Fatma Zeynep; Patek, S. N.; Wood, Robert J., "A physical model of mantis shrimp for exploring the dynamics of ultrafast systems", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
Nguyen, Dieu My T.; Iuzzolino, Michael L.; Mankel, Aaron; Bozek, Katarzyna; Stephens, Greg J.; Peleg, Orit, "Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honeybee swarms", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021
Deora, Tanvi; Ahmed, Mahad A.; Brunton, Bingni W.; Daniel, Thomas L., "Learning to feed in the dark: how light level influences feeding in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta", Biology Letters, 2021
Gancedo, Brian; Salido, Carla; Tomsic, Daniel, "Visual determinants of prey chasing behavior in a mudflat crab", Journal of Experimental Biology, 2020
Cámera, Alejandro; Belluscio, Mariano Andres; Tomsic, Daniel, "Multielectrode Recordings From Identified Neurons Involved in Visually Elicited Escape Behavior", Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Scarano, Florencia; Tomsic, Daniel; Sztarker, Julieta, "Direction Selective Neurons Responsive to Horizontal Motion in a Crab Reflect an Adaptation to Prevailing Movements in Flat Environments", The Journal of Neuroscience, 2020
Uyanik, Ismail; Sefati, Shahin; Stamper, Sarah A; Cho, Kyoung-A; Ankarali, M Mert; Fortune, Eric S; Cowan, Noah J, "Variability in locomotor dynamics reveals the critical role of feedback in task control", eLife, 2020
Sarfati, Raphaël; Hayes, Julie C.; Sarfati, Élie; Peleg, Orit, "Spatio-temporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2020
Tomsic, Daniel; Sztarker, Julieta, "Crustacean Visual Circuits Underlying Behavior", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2019
Anderson, Melanie J.; Sullivan, Joseph G.; Talley, Jennifer L.; Brink, Kevin M.; Fuller, Sawyer B.; Daniel, Thomas L., "The "Smellicopter"; a bio-hybrid odor localizing nano air vehicle", 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019
updated: 2026-03-05