@byneuron

Scientist, teacher, electronics enthusiast @byneuron.bsky.social

 Michigan, USA
lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/bing-ye-lab
Joined May 2013
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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.
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."

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."

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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
Group photo of the 2026 Cryo-ET Workshop participants

ALT Group photo of the 2026 Cryo-ET Workshop participants

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Bobby Tomlinson@btomlApr 30
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.
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@byneuronApr 26
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
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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!
Michigan Daily Sports@theblockmApr 9
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…
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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…

2026 Cryo-Electron Tomography Data Processing Workshop

Cryo-electron tomography is a rapidly evolving imaging technique that allows for calculating 3D structures of biological specimens in vitro and within the cellular context (i.e., in situ). It also...

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UMLifeSciences
@UMLifeSciencesFeb 9
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…
Cryo-electron tomogram on a navy background with text: Cryo-ET Data Processing Workshop. June 7-11, 2026

ALT Cryo-electron tomogram on a navy background with text: Cryo-ET Data Processing Workshop. June 7-11, 2026

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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…
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📚🛠️ 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

LabGym Resources - Documentation, Guides & Tutorials

Access LabGym resources including installation guides, video tutorials, user guides, and development resources.

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🧠🏡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 - Open-Source AI Platform for Automated Animal Behavior Analysis

LabGym is an open-source AI platform that uses deep learning to identify, track, and quantify user-defined behaviors from video recordings.

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Replying to @hhmi_science
@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…

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (REU) | Cech Fellows | HHMI

The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience for rising college juniors and seniors designed to empower the next generation of scientific leaders through mentorship,...

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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👇
Michigan Daily Sports@theblockm27 Oct 2025
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.
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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!
Michigan Daily Sports@theblockm27 Oct 2025
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.
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New preprint out now with @byneuron and our team! Clumsy, a kainate-type glutamate receptor, mediates noxious cold behavioral avoidance in fruit flies. This expands our prior work demonstrating this class of receptors also functions as a cold receptor in worms and mammals. 🪰❄️
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv_neursci6 Oct 2025
Cold sensing by a glutamate receptor drives avoidance behavior in Drosophila larvae biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_neursci

Cold sensing by a glutamate receptor drives avoidance behavior in Drosophila larvae

The ability to sense and avoid noxious environments is essential for animal survival; yet, how this is achieved at the behavioral, neuronal, and molecular levels is not well understood. Here, we use...

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Proud to share our new preprint! 🎉 We introduce LabGym, an open-source AI platform for analyzing C. elegans behavior.🪱 LabGym makes worm behavior analysis accurate, customizable, and accessible, no coding or costly setup required
biorxiv_behav@biorxiv_behav4 Sep 2025
Automated analysis of C. elegans behavior by LabGym: an open-source, AI-powered platform biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_behav

Automated analysis of C. elegans behavior by LabGym: an open-source, AI-powered platform

The genetic tractability, well-mapped circuitry, and diverse behavioral repertoire of the nematode C. elegans make it an ideal model for physiological and behavioral studies. A wide range of methods...

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FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBas…
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Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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Pulp fiction: the sensory innervation of the tooth exists only to cause us pain and grief. My research group helped dispel this notion with our latest publication in Cell Reports: doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.202… I encourage the read...
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For those of you looking for an approachable tool to analyze behavior 👀 we found LabGym could distinguish pain and odontogenic pain and from other non-pain behavior in mice cell.com/cell-reports/fullte…

Intradental mechano-nociceptors serve as sentinels that prevent tooth damage

Ronan et al. explore the function of trigeminal sensory neurons innervating the inner tooth—herein, intradental neurons. They determine these specialized cells respond to damage of the enamel and...

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Bing Ye
@byneuron31 Jul 2025
🧵 I’m excited to announce that the 2025 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial will be held online via Zoom on Friday, August 22, 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about cutting-edge AI-based behavioral analysis! lsi.umich.edu/events/2025-08… 1/

LabGym Symposium

LabGym is a free software suite for automated video analysis and quantification of animal behavior. LabGym has now been downloaded over 55,000 times from GitHub in just about two years. The 2024...

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Planarians made the cover. Aging and Rejuvenation in planarians: doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-0…
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nature
@Nature2 May 2025
US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 calls for unprecedented cuts to scientific agencies that, if enacted, would deal a devastating blow to US science, policy specialists say. go.nature.com/3GPf95e
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