🗓️ Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2025
🕘Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM EST
💻Format: Virtual via Zoom
💰Registration: FREE (required)
⏰Deadline: Aug 17, 2025
Register here: forms.gle/uMnEXuvQH9QF...
Questions? Email: [email protected]
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The seminar program:
Lauren Raycraft (U of Michigan): a rodent operant procedure
Gabriella Muwanga (Stanford): post-injury pain in mice.
Théo Ardoin (U Paris-Saclay): Japanese Macaques
Amanda Xu (University of Michigan): C. elegans behavior
Julie Zhou (Cleveland Clinic): Cellular behavior
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LabGym (github.com/umyelab/LabGym) is a free, open-source, AI-powered software suite for automated video analysis and quantification of animal behavior — downloaded over 56,000 times in just two years (pepy.tech/project/LabGym). 2/

LabGym has been used in reseach across many labs. The latest example is this excellent study from
@jjemrick.bsky.social lab. cell.com/cell-reports...
@cp-cellreports.bsky.social @elizabithian.bsky.social

@cp-cellrepmethods.bsky.social

This event is co-organized with @cferrario.bsky.social and sponsored by @umlifesciences.bsky.social

📧 Questions? Contact: [email protected]
Don’t miss the chance to join an international community advancing AI-driven behavioral analysis. See you on Aug 22!

🔗 Learn more about LabGym:
GitHub: github.com/umyelab/LabGym
Publications:
• Hu et al., 2023 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
• Goss et al., 2024 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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🌍Who should attend?
✅Faculty
✅Postdocs
✅Graduate and undergraduate students
✅Research technicians
✅Anyone interested in using AI tools to analyze behavioral videos
(no prior experience with automated behavior analysis needed!)
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🗓️Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2025
🕘Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM EST
💻Format: Virtual via Zoom
💰Registration: FREE (required)
⏰Deadline: Aug 17, 2025
Register here 👉 forms.gle/uMnEXuvQH9QF...

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📌 The 2025 symposium features two sessions:
Morning Seminar (9:00–11:30 AM EST): Introduction & Researcher presentations

Tutorial Session (11:30 AM–1:30 PM EST)
🖥️Hands-on training in LabGym’s basic functions
📊Includes example videos & datasets for practice
🙌No programming experience required!
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🐵🙈🙉🙊 LabGym quantifies user-defined behaviors—social or non-social—without physical markers. It’s 'subject-aware,' telling you which animal is doing what in a group.
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🐭🪰🐒 LabGym (github.com/umyelab/LabGym) is a free, open-source, AI-powered software suite for automated video analysis and quantification of animal behavior.
👉 Downloaded 55,000+ times in just two years! (pepy.tech/project/LabGym)
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