PI Lecture

What's on a mouse's mind? Behavioral measures to understand animal’s experiences and needs Lars Lewejohann, Freie Universität Berlin, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) Abstract: Mice, as all other living creatures, have adapted to specific living conditions in the course of evolution. From our human

Collective Information Processing - From Simple Flocking Models to Real Ecological Systems Abstract: Collective systems such animal groups or cellular ensembles represent fascinating examples of self-organization in biology. In contrast to non-living physical systems, self-organized biological collectives are results of long-term evolutionary adaptations to a specific ecological niche, where collective behavior provides evolutionary benefits to