Living organisms routinely navigate their surroundings in search of better conditions, more
food, or to avoid predators. Typically, animals do so by integrating sensory cues from the …

Motility is an essential factor for an organism's survival and diversification. With the advent of
novel single-cell technologies, analytical frameworks, and theoretical methods, we can …

Diverse animal species exhibit highly stereotyped behavioral actions and locomotor
sequences as they explore their natural environments. In many such cases, the neural basis …

Single cells are capable of remarkably sophisticated, sometimes animal-like, behaviors.
New work demonstrates bioelectric control of motility through the differential regulation of …

Cells are the fundamental unit of biological organization. Although it may be easy to think of
them as little more than the simple building blocks of complex organisms such as animals …

Neural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or
computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the …

In this work, we report investigations of the swimming behaviour of Paramecium tetraurelia,
a unicellular microorganism, in micro-engineered pools that are decorated with thousands of …