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SUMMARY:Syntax in C. elegans locomotion - Dr Andre Brown\, Group leader\, 
  MRC Clinical Sciences Centre\, Imperial College London 
DTSTART:20161012T150000Z
DTEND:20161012T160000Z
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Behaviour is a striking phenotype and often one of 
 the first things we notice about an animal.  Broadly speaking\, we are int
 erested in understanding how genes affect behaviour\, but despite rapid ad
 vances in technology for sequencing and engineering genomes\, it is still 
 a challenge to associate particular genes with heritable behavioural diffe
 rences because behaviour is time consuming to measure and difficult to qua
 ntify.  We are using automated imaging to record the behaviour of freely m
 oving nematode worms and developing new analysis methods to extract releva
 nt features.  I will discuss unsupervised methods to quantify behavioural 
 repertoires\, and how making connections to language processing and data c
 ompression can give insight into the structure of behaviour.  Finally I wi
 ll show how these new representations can advance the study of behavioural
  genetics and phenotypic drug screening.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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