Pavan P Ramdya

*Chen C-L, Hermans L, Viswanathan MC, Aymanns F, Unser M, Cammarato A, Dickinson MH, Ramdya P* Nature Communications. 2018 Oct 22; 9(1):4390.	Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila.
Ramdya P, Thandiackal R, Cherney R, Asselborn T, Benton R, Ijspeert AJ, Floreano D. Nature Communications. 2017 Feb 17;8:14494.	Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits.
Ramdya P, Lichocki P, Cruchet S, Frisch L, Tse W, Floreano D, Benton R. Nature. 2015 Mar 12;519(7542):233-6.	Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila.
Pavan Ramdya & Florian Engert Nature Neuroscience, 2008 Sep;11(9):1083-90.	Emergence of binocular functional properties in a monocular neural circuit.

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Life Sciences Engineering

PhD Programs

Doctoral Program in Neuroscience

Doctoral Program in Computational and Quantitative Biology

Doctoral program in robotics, control, and intelligent systems

Doctoral Program in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Doctoral Program in Photonics

PhD Students

Braun Jonas Friedrich, Hurtak Femke Imreh, Lobato Rios Victor, Ozdil Pembe Gizem, Stimpfling Victor Alfred, Wang Sibo,

Past EPFL PhD Students

Aymanns Florian , Chen Chin-Lin , Günel Semih , Hermans Laura Joan ,

Courses

Neuroscience

Planning your scientific journey

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Controlling behavior in animals and robots

Students will acquire an integrative view on biological and artificial algorithms for controlling autonomous behaviors in animals and robots. Students will synthesize and apply this knowledge in oral presentations and exercises.

Python Bootcamp

An intensive, hands-on, pragmatic introduction to computer programming. Students learn basic concepts like data types, control structures, string processing, functions, input/output. They perform simulations, write scripts, and analyze and plot biological data. Python is the language of instruction.

Pavan P Ramdya

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Fields of expertise

Mission

Biography

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Overcoming the Domain Gap in Neural Action Representations

Microengineered devices enable long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

NeuroMechFly, a neuromechanical model of adult Drosophila melanogaster

NeuroMechFly: an integrative simulation testbed for studying Drosophila behavioral control

Connecting the dots in ethology: applying network theory to understand neural and animal collectives

Uncovering the neural substrates of communication between the brain and ventral nerve cord in Drosophila melanogaster (italic)

Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Uncovering the neural encoding of behavior in the adult Drosophila motor system

Using Animal Motion Capture to Learn Neural Representations

LiftPose3D, a deep learning-based approach for transforming two-dimensional to three-dimensional poses in laboratory animals

Extensive and diverse patterns of cell death sculpt neural networks in insects

Deformation-aware Unpaired Image Translation for Pose Estimation on Laboratory Animals

Serotonergic Modulation of Walking in Drosophila

DeepFly3D, a deep learning-based approach for 3D limb and appendage tracking in tethered, adult Drosophila

Imaging neural activity in the ventral nerve cord of behaving adult Drosophila

FlyLimbTracker: An Active Contour Based Approach for Leg Segment Tracking in Unmarked, Freely Behaving Drosophila

Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits

Fluctuation-driven neural dynamics reproduce Drosophila locomotor patterns

Mechanosensory interactions drive collective behaviour in Drosophila

Fluorescence Behavioral Imaging (FBI) tracks identity in heterogeneous groups of Drosophila

Complementary Function and Integrated Wiring of the Evolutionarily Distinct Drosophila Olfactory Subsystems

Evolving olfactory systems on the fly