As a PhD student in the Laurent Lab, I have developed computational tools to study the motor control of cephalopods camouflage.
I worked on the development of CHROMAS, a flexible computational pipeline to track and analyze chromatophore dynamics from high-resolution videos of behaving cephalopods.
Johann Ukrow, Mathieu D. M. Renard, Mahyar Moghimi, Gilles Laurent (2025), CHROMAS: A Computational Pipeline to Track Chromatophores and Analyze their Dynamics, eLife 14: RP106509. https://elifesciences.org/articles/106509
Combining high-resolution videography with a dedicated computer-vision pipeline (CHROMAS), I investigated chromatophore control and their likely innervation in Euprymna berryi and Sepia officinalis.
Mathieu D. M. Renard, Johann Ukrow, Margot Elmaleh, Dominic A. Evans, Yifan Wu, Xitong Liang, Gilles Laurent (2025), Disentangling Cephalopod Chromatophores Motor Units with Computer Vision, bioRxiv 2025.11.30.691401; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.11.30.691401
"Disentangling Cephalopod Chromatophores: A Novel Computational Approach to Resolve Chromatophore Motor Units". Coming soon.