Integrative Biophysics Group
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Investigating biophysics of living systems through an integrative lens . PI: Ahmed El Hady ( @zamakany ) . For inquiries, email: [email protected]
Konstanz
Joined June 2021
Quotes guiding our philosophy of pursuing knowledge at the Integrative Biophysics Group
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The Konstanz school of collective behavior is happening again in 2026 with an amazing line up of speakers. Check out the website:
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
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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: https://t.co/vBoK0WWY4d and application portal here:
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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.😄
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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
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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 :
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Check out this postdoc opening in our research group . Deadline : Sept 15th
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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
https://t.co/FbxHwbTR16
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So happy this paper is finally out in PRX Life ( https://t.co/ColJaQ7cUG ) . 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
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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...
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. https://t.co/8YCCHmkumB
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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. https://t.co/8YCCHmkumB
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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
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Check out this exciting junior scientist workshop focusing on theoretical biophysics . Deadline June 10, 2025 Link: https://t.co/LCBkY8N3cL We are inviting postdocs and graduate students working on a variety of problems in theoretical biophysics, broadly defined. Topics
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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 : https://t.co/ppPWC4vKqP
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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: https://t.co/jygDIzauxO and
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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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Deadline for the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior 2025 is approaching. Apply now :D Deadline: April 15th, 2025.
Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( https://t.co/ACFAcbFLAg ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective
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One of the main insights of our new paper is that when studying social patch foraging, it is crucial to look beyond patch residence time , looking into metrics characterizing the accuracy of inferring patch quality and group cohesion certainly increase our understanding of
Our study suggests that although a widely used metric in foraging studies is patch residence time (a key variable in the Marginal Value Theorem ) accuracy of inferring patch quality and group cohesion may be of critical importance to characterize group patch foraging dynamics .
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Check out the newest study from our group on how social hierarchy shapes foraging decision strategies
Very excited for this new study with my very talented postdoc Lisa Blum Moyse ( @IntBioPhysics ) where we develop an analytically tractable model of how social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions, in a patch foraging context. @CBehav Social hierarchy can be modeled as a
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Check out this junior scientist workshop @HHMIJanelia that I am co-organising with @AllysonSgro and Magdalena Schneider on Theoretical Biophysics ( Application deadline: June 10th, 2025, website: https://t.co/LCBkY8NB2j) . Participants will include only students and postdocs
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Attendees will have the opportunity to present as well as learn from one another. They will give 20-minute talks on their own research questions, as well as in-depth 45-minute whiteboard tutorials on
Students + postdocs in theoretical biophysics 👉 Join us @HHMIJanelia in October to present your research, engage in lively discussions, and network with peers. ✈️ Hotel, meals, & travel covered Learn more + apply by June 10 @ https://t.co/8M4v78roJD
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We have a page on the blue site with the same handle @IntBioPhysics . make sure to follow us there
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Check out this amazing school organized by our PI @zamakany .
Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( https://t.co/ACFAcbFLAg ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective
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