Elizabeth G. Campolongo

Senior Data Scientist for the Imageomics Institute, The Ohio State University (United States)

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Emily Baird

Professor at the Stockholm University (Sweden)

Using micro-CT to explore the visual ecology of insects

Insects rely on vision to control many different behaviours from simple control of movement and finding food to complex long-distance navigation. To do this, they need to reliably extract relevant information from their visual environment. While some extreme adaptations in insect eyes have been studied–such as in nocturnal insect eyes or in predatory flies–we understand little about how insect vision is adapted to species' habitats and behaviour. To address this knowledge gap, we require high-throughput analyses of the fine structure of insect eyes, something that micro-CT imaging techniques combined with machine-learning segmentation approaches are well suited for. In this talk, I will present the work that my lab has been doing to develop such methods and the results of our efforts to apply these to a range of different specimens, from fossils and museum specimens to fresh-caught individuals. 

Moritz Lürig

Assistant Professor at Bonn University (Germany)

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Joakim Bruslund Haurum

Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

Multimodal AI for Ecological Monitoring: Images, DNA, and Geolocation

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