ESPCI web site
PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France
Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22
Netta Cohen (University of Leeds, UK)
Animal microswimmers : closing the neuro-environment loop
Planar undulations are a common mechanism for biological locomotion across many scales and phyla. Here I review recent progress in understanding the locomotion control of a microscopic nematode worm, C. elegans, and the interplay between neural control, passive and active body forces and the interaction with Newtonian and non-Newtonian (viscoelastic) environments. I will begin by reviewing experimental evidence for the role of physics in modulating the kinematics of undulatory locomotion, including estimates of the forces acting on the worm across different media. Based on these results, I will present a neuromechanical model that accounts for a range of worm behaviors. In the second part of the talk, I will discuss experimental results and computational models of sensory motor control of navigation and exploration of the environment, governed by the worm's head navigation circuit, with a focus on the constraints imposed by the embodiment and situatedness of the animal on the computation performed by the neural circuits.
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
Link to cofee seminar (internal, every Thursday)
