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The registration deadline for the 2026 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial is August 9, 2026. More than 120 participants from 13 countries have already registered!
Preliminary Program
Carrie Ferrario (University of Michigan): Opening Remarks
Bing Ye (University of Michigan): LabGym: Bringing AI-Powered Behavioral Analysis to Everyone
📢Research Talks
🎤Wenjin Dong (University of Michigan): LabGrimace: Automated Analysis of Mouse Grimace for Quantitative Assessment of Pain Dynamics
🎤Lauren Raycraft (University of Michigan): Hungry for More: Behavioral Analysis with LabGym Reveals New Insights into Cue-Induced Food Seeking
🎤Jay Vargas (California State University, Los Angeles): Teaching Old Worms New Tricks: AI-Assisted Behavioral Analysis in Planarians
🎤Frej Gammelgård, Jonas Nielsen, and Silje Lund (Aalborg University, Denmark): Using LabGym for Comprehensive Behavioral Analysis in Captive Lions
📢New Features and Tools
🎤Elvis Xiang: A Zero-Shot Segmentation Tool for Generating Training Data for the LabGym Detector
🎤Alexander Chumak: Diagnosing LabGym Categorizer Errors: An Interactive Confusion Matrix and Triage Workflow
🎤Alisa Ficiciyan: Enhancing the LabGym User Experience: Integrated Resources, an Interactive Workflow Map, and Behavior Count Monitoring
🎤Myra Lyu: Enhancing Behavioral Quantification in LabGym with Confidence and Behavioral Transition Analysis
📢 Registration is now open for the 2026 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial! Join researchers from around the world to learn how LabGym (labgym.org), an open-source AI-powered software suite for automated animal behavior analysis, is being used across diverse species.
🐭 Featured applications include: Mice, Rats, Planarians, Macaques, Lions
You'll see: ✅An introduction to LabGym ✅User presentations showcasing real-world applications ✅New LabGym features ✅A hands-on tutorial for new users
🕘August 14, 2026; 9:00 AM–1:30 PM Eastern Time (U.S.)
💻Virtual via Zoom
🎟️Free (registration required by August 9); Register here: forms.gle/eFKAhXU7gFHL85NW9
LabGym has been downloaded ~74,000 times from GitHub, and the previous two symposia each attracted ~150 registrants from 50 institutions across 5 and 11 countries, respectively.
#AI #AnimalBehavior #BehaviorAnalysis #Neuroscience #Ethology #MachineLearning #OpenScience #LabGym #labgymbeh @OpenBehavior @CellRepMethods @NatureComms @CurrentBiology @NeuroCellPress @NatureNeuro @UM_MNI
📢 Registration is now open for the 2026 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial! Join researchers from around the world to learn how LabGym (labgym.org), an open-source AI-powered software suite for automated animal behavior analysis, is being used across diverse species.
🐭 Featured applications include: Mice, Rats, Planarians, Macaques, Lions
You'll see: ✅An introduction to LabGym ✅User presentations showcasing real-world applications ✅New LabGym features ✅A hands-on tutorial for new users
🕘August 14, 2026; 9:00 AM–1:30 PM Eastern Time (U.S.)
💻Virtual via Zoom
🎟️Free (registration required by August 9); Register here: forms.gle/eFKAhXU7gFHL85NW9
LabGym has been downloaded ~74,000 times from GitHub, and the previous two symposia each attracted ~150 registrants from 50 institutions across 5 and 11 countries, respectively.
#AI #AnimalBehavior #BehaviorAnalysis #Neuroscience #Ethology #MachineLearning #OpenScience #LabGym #labgymbeh @OpenBehavior @CellRepMethods @NatureComms @CurrentBiology @NeuroCellPress @NatureNeuro @UM_MNI
Bing Ye retweeted
Researchers in @byneuron's lab at the LSI first developed LabGym to overcome challenges in analyzing fruit fly behavior.
Now this open-source software has expanded to support research for thousands of scientists across five continents—from @jjemrick's efforts to understand pain sensation and behavior in @UMichDentistry, to @cedricsueur's studies of social roles in wild Japanese macaques.
ALT Illustrated monkey and fruit fly with outlines indicating motion analysis. Quote from Bing Ye: "We have always thought that LabGym could have that kind of broad use because, after all, LabGym is here to democratize the use of AI for behavior analysis."
Bing Ye retweeted
The LSI's 2026 #CryoET Workshop wrapped up yesterday, capping four days of hands-on learning and networking.
Thank you to all the presenters and scientists from around the country who attended and made the event such an informative and collaborative experience!
Thanks also to our event sponsors; @DDNintelligence, @GatanMicroscopy, @MiTeGen and @thermofisher
ALT Group photo of the 2026 Cryo-ET Workshop participants
Bing Ye retweeted
Punch is a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who went viral carrying a stuffed orangutan around. We used him as a test case for LabGym - and the results were surprisingly clean.
Bing Ye retweeted
We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation.
(Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @OpenBehavior @UMLifeSciences
We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation.
(Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @OpenBehavior @UMLifeSciences
Bing Ye retweeted
The Michigan Daily is making a book about @umichbball's national championship! Our beat writers and photographers traveled to almost every game this season (and covered them all), and our designers have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to deliver this super cool product!
From Ann Arbor to East Lansing to Champaign. Buffalo, to Chicago, to Indianapolis.
To follow @umichbball’s championship season, buy The Michigan Daily’s book, “Conquered,” featuring student journalists’ stories, photos and more chronicling the year: pediment.com/products/michig…
Bing Ye retweeted
Applications for the 2026 #CryoET Data Processing Workshop are due one month from today!
Learn more about this hands-on workshop and apply by March 20: myumi.ch/lsi-cryo-workshop-2…
Join us this summer for U-M's 2026 #CryoET Data Processing Workshop!
This four-day workshop will introduce participants to standard image processing packages and all aspects of cryo-ET data processing.
Apply by March 20:
myumi.ch/lsi-cryo-workshop-2…
ALT Cryo-electron tomogram on a navy background with text: Cryo-ET Data Processing Workshop. June 7-11, 2026
Bing Ye retweeted
Researchers in the @PengLi_UM and @wenjingwanglab labs have developed a new tool for real-time control of cell surface receptor activity in specific cells, enabling scientists to investigate how activating specific neuronal signals can drive brain function and behaviors.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
Bing Ye retweeted
📚🛠️ New on the LabGym site, the Resources page centralizes our assistant agent, guides, tutorials, and more to help users get started with video-based behavioral analysis workflows.
Explore: labgym.org/resources
Bing Ye retweeted
🧠🏡Following the recent LabGym site release, I’ll be highlighting newly introduced pages that clarify LabGym's goals, methods, and use.
The homepage introduces LabGym, an AI-driven tool for identifying + quantifying user-defined behaviors from video data: labgym.org

LabGym website is live!
Visit labgym.org to explore LabGym’s features, tutorials, documentation, publications, and community resources for AI-powered behavioral analysis across species.
Huge thanks to @btoml for designing and building the website!

Bing Ye retweeted
@HHMINEWS Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
hhmi.org/programs/cech-fello…
Bing Ye retweeted
I’ve been having so much fun designing covers for @theblockm & @michigandaily ! Shoutout to the football beat and photo staff for the amazing coverage and content! Here are the front covers from the past few weeks, including @UMichFootball’s most recent win against the Spartans👇
Despite a rough start against rival @MSU_Football, @UMichFootball revitalized its offense in the second half to bring the Paul Bunyan Trophy back to Ann Arbor for the fourth straight year.
This week’s front cover: Justice Is Served.
Bing Ye retweeted
Super excited to have my story on the front cover after Michigan's win Saturday over Michigan State! Huge shoutout to Annabelle who killed it with the design as she always does!
Despite a rough start against rival @MSU_Football, @UMichFootball revitalized its offense in the second half to bring the Paul Bunyan Trophy back to Ann Arbor for the fourth straight year.
This week’s front cover: Justice Is Served.