Centre de Biologie Intégrative de Toulouse

Antcar: Simple Route Following Task with Ants-Inspired Vision and Neural Model

The goal of this project is to develop a new method of Route following for mobile robots in a GNSSdenied environment like urban canyons or indoor. We used a robust biologically constrained neural model inspired by ants developed previously in simulation to assess the familiarity...

Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

Navigating insects often pause and rotate to sample their surroundings, behaviours termed scanning. These and other active sampling behaviours embody navigational uncertainty and are key for spatial learning, yet their neural basis remains unclear and existing models impose scann...

Grape yield estimation using on-the-fly MIMO millimeter-wave radar at operational field speed: A variety-dependent proof of concept

Accurate pre-harvest grape yield estimation is a critical challenge in precision viticulture, yet current optical approaches (RGB cameras, LiDAR) are fundamentally limited by foliage occlusion and sensitivity to ambient lighting conditions. This paper presents a ground-based grap...

An Epstein-Barr virus-encoded snoRNA directs 2′-O-methylation of human rRNAs to control translation and the viral lytic switch

Summary Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) establishes life-long latency in human B-cells yet the molecular strategies that balance its persistence with lytic replication remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify the EBV-encoded small nucleolar RNA, v-snoRNA1, as a bona fide 2′-O-m...