In honey bee colonies, workers generally change tasks with age (from brood care, to nest
work, to foraging). While these trends are well established, our understanding of how …

Rodents serve as an important model for examining both individual and collective behavior.
Dominance within rodent social structures can determine access to critical resources, such …

Modelling biological or engineering swarms is challenging due to the inherently high
dimension of the system, despite the often low-dimensional emergent dynamics. Most …

The development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies paved the way for
studying the spatiotemporal coordination of cellular processes along the genome. However …

Cellular migration is a ubiquitous feature that brings brain cells into appropriate spatial
relationships over time; and it helps in the formation of a functional brain. We studied the …

Flying insects routinely demonstrate coordinated flight in groups. How they achieve this with
very limited communication, vision, and neural systems remains an open question. We …

This thesis investigates the complex behavior of individuals in a group and the emergence
of collective behavior through their interactions, using automatic tracking technology and …

Honeybee colonies missing their queens are more likely to swarm and experience a fall in
population. Bee growers in the Philippines still utilize traditional methods to determine the …

Terms such as leader, mediator, and follower sound equal in the description of a pack of
wolves, a street protest crowd, or a business team and have very similar meanings. This …