2026/01/09(Fri) 11:00 -12:00 一樓演講廳 1F, Auditorium
Title
How Living Systems Find Their Way: From Behavioral Dynamics to Information Flow
Speaker
Dr. Kevin Chen (Yale University, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)Abstract
Many living systems continuously sense and act to navigate their environments. Despite advances in behavioral tracking, quantitatively defining navigation strategies and linking them to internal states and computational functions remains challenging. In this talk, I will describe computational frameworks that unify the analysis of sensory navigation across scales, from animals to single cells. By viewing navigation as a dynamical system, we develop unsupervised methods to identify stereotyped behavioral strategies and to characterize internal states in an unbiased manner. We apply this framework to measurements of sensory navigation from bacteria, worms, flies, to machine-learning agents. In addition, we quantify the information flow between sensory signals and behavioral actions, proposing an information-theoretic metric for navigation performance derived from first principle. Finally, I will discuss progress towards experiments that probe the neural and biophysical mechanisms underlying experience-dependent navigation.
Language
演講語言 (Language): in English