Renaud Bastien

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A unifying model of shoot gravitropism reveals proprioception as a central feature of posture control in Plant
R. Bastien, T. Bohr, B. Moulia et S. Douady
PNAS (2013)

A model of collective behavior based purely on vision
R. Bastien, P. Romanczuk
Science Advances (2020)

Plants: Proprioception and Modeling

A unifying model of shoot gravitropism reveals proprioception as a central feature of posture control in Plant
R. Bastien, T. Bohr, B. Moulia et S. Douady
PNAS (2013)

A Unifying Modeling of Plant Shoot Gravitropism With an Explicit Account of the Effects of Growth.
R. Bastien, S. Douady et B. Moulia
Frontiers in Plants Science (2014)

A Unified Model of Shoot Tropism in plants : Photo-, Gravi- and Propio-Ception
R. Bastien, S. Douady et B. Moulia
Plos Computational Biology (2015)

The Kinematics of Plants Nutation Reveals a Simple Relation Between Curvature and the Orientation of Differential Growth
R. Bastien et Y. Meroz
Plos Computational Biology (2016)
Interactive Simulator

Spatio-temporal integration in plant tropisms
Y. Meroz, R. Bastien, L. Mahadevan
Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2019)

A Framework for Collective Behavior in Plant Inspired Growth-Driven Systems, Based on Kinematics of Allotropism
R. Bastien, A. Porat, Y. Meroz
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019)

Plants: Measuring growth in moving organs

KymoRod: A method for automated kinematic analysis of rod-shaped plant organs
R. Bastien, D. Legland, M. Martin, L. Fregosi, A. Peaucelle, S. Douady, B. Moulia, et H. Höfte
The Plant Journal (2016).

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Quantitative dissection of variations in root growth rate: a matter of cell proliferation or of cell expansion?
C. Youssef, F. Bizet, R. Bastien, D. Legland, M.B. Bogeat-Triboulot, I. Hummel
Journal of experimental botany (2018)

Coupled ultradian growth and curvature oscillations during gravitropic movement in disturbed wheat coleoptiles
R. Bastien, O. Guayasamin, S. Douady et B. Moulia
Plos One (2018)

Fluttering of Growing Leaves as a Way to Reach Flatness: Experimental Evidence on Persea americana
J. Derr, R. Bastien, E Couturier et S. Douady
Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2018)

Virtual Reality for Animals

Virtual reality for freely moving animals
J. R. Stowers, M. Hofbauer, R. Bastien, J. Griessner, P. Higgins, S. Farooqui, R. M Fischer, K. Nowikovsky, W. Haubensak, I. D. Couzin, K. Tessmar-Raible, A. D. Straw
Nature Methods (2017)

Animals in Virtual Environments
H Naik, R Bastien, N Navab, ID Couzin
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2020)

Vision based collective behavior

A model of collective behavior based purely on vision
R. Bastien, P. Romanczuk
Science Advances (2020)

PhD Thesis

Formes et Mouvements Gravitropiques des Tiges Végétales: Modèle Universel et Phénotypage
R. Bastien
PhD Thesis (En Français!) 2010