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Optimal policies for Bayesian olfactory search in turbulent flows
Robin A. Heinonen, Luca Biferale, Antonio Celani +1
In many practical scenarios, a flying insect must search for the source of an emitted cue which is advected by the atmospheric wind. On the macroscopic scales of interest, turbulen…
Affinity maturation for an optimal balance between long-term immune coverage and short-term resource constraints
Victor Chardès, Massimo Vergassola, Aleksandra M. Walczak +1
In order to target threatening pathogens, the adaptive immune system performs a continuous reorganization of its lymphocyte repertoire. Following an immune challenge, the B cell re…
Hunchback promoters can readout morphogenetic positional information in less than a minute
Jonathan Desponds, Massimo Vergassola, Aleksandra M. Walczak
The first cell fate decisions in the developing fly embryo are made very rapidly : hunchback genes decide in a few minutes whether a given nucleus follows the anterior or the poste…
Complete coverage of space favors modularity of the grid system in the brain
Alessandro Sanzeni, Vijay Balasubramanian, Guido Tiana +1
Grid cells in the entorhinal cortex fire when animals that are exploring a certain region of space occupy the vertices of a triangular grid that spans the environment. Different ne…
Infomax strategies for an optimal balance between exploration and exploitation
Gautam Reddy, Antonio Celani, Massimo Vergassola
Proper balance between exploitation and exploration is what makes good decisions, which achieve high rewards like payoff or evolutionary fitness. The Infomax principle postulates t…
The Impact of Environmental Fluctuations on Evolutionary Fitness Functions
Anna Melbinger, Massimo Vergassola
The concept of fitness as a measure for a species's success in natural selection is central to the theory of evolution. We here investigate how reproduction rates which are not con…