Integrative Biophysics Group @IntBioPhysics
Investigating biophysics of living systems through an integrative lens . PI: Ahmed El Hady ( @zamakany ) . For inquiries, email: [email protected] exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… Konstanz Joined June 2021-
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If you happen to be around NYU on May 4th , come see Jacob Davidson and myself speaking about our latest work developing algorithms for social behavior analytics. All details are on the poster below, reach out if you are around.
After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Jane Dennis from Janelia Farm Research Campus , it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Pretty pertinent discussion today as foraging is becoming a topic of interest for many neuroscientists. Enjoy the review annualreviews.org/content/journa…
A new preprint from our group formalizing mate choice, a central problem in evolutionary biology, as an optimal foraging problem. Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
NEW PREPRINT ALERT: Mate choice is a central problem in evolutionary biology. Daniel Bernstein from @Princeton and myself asked whether Mate choice can be formalized as foraging problem. We developed an analytically tractable optimal foraging-inspired mechanistic theory of
To more and more foraging studies 🙌🙌
A new paper from our group that investigates how different forms of social hierarchy and inequality shapes patch foraging strategies. Check out the paper here: journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…
So happy that my paper with Lisa Blum Moyse on how social hierarchy shapes foraging strategies is out in Physics Review Research. We develop an analytically tractable model of how leader - follower dynamics and spread of misinformation shape patch foraging. Check the paper
Check out this workshop organized by our PI Ahmed El Hady @zamakany, to take place at @HHMIJanelia
So excited we are organizing again with @AllysonSgro the Junior Scientist workshop for theoretical biophysics to take place at @HHMIJanelia from September 13 - 18, 2026 . Janelia will cover the cost of accommodation, meals and reasonable travel expenses for accepted
The Konstanz school of collective behavior is happening again in 2026 with an amazing line up of speakers. Check out the website: exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/about/
So excited that the Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior from cells to tissues to whole organisms and across animal
Come join our group
Pls RT this ad: I have an opening for a PhD student in my @IntBioPhysics group to begin ASAP , part of a collaboration with the group of Ilya Nemenman @INemenman at Emory university. Deadline: 1st November Details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/099… and application portal here:
Very glad that Albin Salazar @latinchemist is joining our group as a postdoctoral fellow where his goal is to wed multi-level paradigms with multi-scale data integration to elucidate mechanistic behaviors pertinent in diverse foraging scenarios.😄
Can one bring together Reinforcement learning and Drift Diffusion models to unravel cognitive mechanisms underlying collective foraging ? Congrads to Jonathan Marienhagen , Lisa Blum Moyse and Dominik Deffner on this new study. Very happy that @IntBioPhysics postdoc Lisa and myself were part of this collaboration. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya…
The school director is our PI Ahmed El Hady ( @zamakany ) . It is such a pleasure to host all those amazing students and faculty in Konstanz.
Konstanz school of collective behavior 2025 was a great success. Amazing students and faculty , who spent so many hours discussing state of the art collective behavior research. We are already preparing for the 2026 version so stay tuned. Details to be updated here :
Check out this postdoc opening in our research group . Deadline : Sept 15th
Look at those cute NYC rats running around :D
New preprint! tl;dr — We ran around late at night to record wild rats in NYC and figured out how to quantify their behavior and environment. 🧵 w/ Dima Batenkov, @zamakany, @e_mackevicius biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
So happy this paper is finally out in PRX Life (journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra… ) . Let me tell you more about the story of this paper in this thread : Foraging is my big passion and step by step I hope to develop a general theory of foraging , predicting decision strategies from the individual to the social. This time we are extending our foraging models to the social domain. Along with a very talented postdoc in my @IntBioPhysics group Lisa Blum Moyse , we developed an analytically tractable model to predict social foraging strategies in an egalitarian group . We assumed that agents would couple through different social information sharing mechanisms as shown in this figure and derived the strategies analytically , we got some exciting results:
Cohesion, residence time, and habitat-choice accuracy emerge as key metrics shaped by social interaction, revealing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the collective foraging patterns of large egalitarian groups. go.aps.org/44GrQJi
Check out this new paper from our group by our very own talented postdoc Lisa Blum Moyse and our PI @zamakany We present an analytically tractable model to give us mechanistic insights of how animals socially forage under different forms of social couplings.
Cohesion, residence time, and habitat-choice accuracy emerge as key metrics shaped by social interaction, revealing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in the collective foraging patterns of large egalitarian groups. go.aps.org/44GrQJi
Job opportunity in our group . Check it out and share it around
Please share around this Job ad : Are you excited about foraging ? do you want to analyse multidimensional large scale behavioural, metabolic and neural data ? I have a job opening for you :D I have an opening for a postdoc in my @IntBioPhysics group. The Postdoc will be
Check out this exciting junior scientist workshop focusing on theoretical biophysics . Deadline June 10, 2025 Link: janelia.org/you-janelia/co… We are inviting postdocs and graduate students working on a variety of problems in theoretical biophysics, broadly defined. Topics include but not limited to : Physical principles underlying biological function in molecular, cellular, multicellular systems Theory of organismal development Theory of animal behavior, ecological systems, and evolutionary dynamics Data driven identification of principles in biophysical systems Physics of active matter Non–equilibrium thermodynamics of living systems
If you are around in Berlin , make sure to mark your calendar on May 13th when I will be giving my seminar hosted by @liviadehoz . All details In this link : sfb1315.de/events/integra…
Lisa Blum-Moyse from our group @IntBioPhysics will be giving a talk at NWG 2025 this Friday at 16:00. She will talk about her work on theoretical models of social foraging with Ahmed El Hady @zamakany
If you are heading to the Neuroscience Conference in Goettingen this week, make sure to go on Friday 28th March to the talk by the very talented postdoc Lisa Blum-Moyse on theoretical models of social foraging. For reference, check our preprints too: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and
A new paper from our group @IntBioPhysics led by our PI @zamakany using foraging theory to reformulate saccadic eye movements as a patch foraging problem
Very excited that this cute study is finally out as a preprint. It began in @neurobridges 2023 when Tal Nahari approached me after my lecture on foraging theory wondering : " I have some saccadic eye movement data that looks like your patch foraging model" . Here we are, two
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