The 4th Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium, iNAV2022, was held fully virtual from the 14th to the 16th June 2022. This symposium mainly focused on the question: “How does the brain know where it is, where it is going, and how to get from one place to another?” Interestingly, this symposium took place in an 8bit 2D environment under the support of “Gather.town”, making it the most interactive virtual-academic-conference ever before in this special pandemic period.
ULRACEPT researcher Xuelong Sun presented a poster about his research on the insect’s central complex in the midbrain for coordinating multimodal navigation behaviours, ‘How the insect central complex could coordinate multimodal navigation’ Xuelong Sun; Shigang Yue; Michael Mangan. This poster appealed to several researchers sharing similar research interests who have further communicated with Xuelong for future directions of insect navigation. Xuelong has also answered some questions about the details of the neural networks applied in his work.
The Plenary talks were highly-qualified and overlapped with Xuelong’s research about insect navigation. Prof. Barbara Webb from the University of Edinburgh delivered a great talk about modelling the adaption in insect navigation which also mentioned Xuelong’s published paper. Xuelong said: “I am very happy that Webb mentioned my work. I have obtained many useful ideas and inspiration from the plenary talks and communications with peers, which will help my future research.”
