Symposium

Symposium organized by the Preparatory Committee

Symposium Theme

"Moving Intelligence: The Behavioral Science of Navigation"

Animals have evolved their organs for migration, including motor system, sensory system for locating targets and central nervous system to processing mechanism from sensory inputs to motor outputs. In the Scientific Research Project on Innovation Area of "Bio-Navigation," which has been completed in 2020, mechanical engineering, information science, and biology had collaborated, and various researches targeting "biological migration" had been developed not only in the laboratory but also in the field. In this symposium, we will invite researchers who had joined as open researcher in this project and introduce their recent results on biological migration from in-laboratory to global scales.

Symposiasts and titles

• Shunsuke Shigaki (Osaka University) Analysis of insect navigation behavior modulation mechanism using multimodal virtual reality）
• Yuuki Kawabata (Nagasaki University) Why do prey animals exhibit various patterns of escape directions?: an attempt to explain through the mathematical model, simulation, and manipulation experiment
• Nozomi Nishiumi (National Institute for Basic Biology) Behavioral strategies in the game between predator and prey animals
• Takashi Kitagawa (International Coastal Research Center, Atmosphere & Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)　 Movement ecology of high migratory fish species
• Takehiko Ito (Tottori University International Platform for Dryland Research and Education) Surviving in the changing environment: Movement strategies of wild herbivores in Mongolia

Symposium Organizer
Hiroto Ogawa (Hokkaido University)
Noriyasu Ando (Maebashi Institute of Technology)