2026 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial Recap
The 2026 LabGym Symposium & Tutorial had 174 registrants from 63 institutions across 15 countries, with participants joining from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Recordings
Program recap
The event included opening remarks, research talks, feature presentations, and a hands-on walkthrough of LabGym’s core workflow.
Symposium
Opening
- Carrie Ferrario, University of Michigan: Opening remarks
- Bing Ye, University of Michigan: LabGym: Bringing AI-powered behavioral analysis to everyone
Research talks
- Jay Vargas, California State University Los Angeles: Teaching Old Worms New Tricks: AI-Assisted Behavioral Analysis in Planarians
- Wenjin Dong, University of Michigan: LabGrymace: Automated analysis of mouse grimace for quantitative assessment of pain dynamics
- Lauren Raycraft, University of Michigan: Hungry for more: Behavioral analysis with LabGym reveals new insights in cue-induced food-seeking
- Frej Gammelgård, Aalborg University: Using LabGym for a full-scale and generalized behavioral analysis in captive lions
New features and tools
- Elvis Xiang: A zero-shot segmentation tool for generating training data for the LabGym Detector
- Alexander Chumak: Diagnosing LabGym Categorizer errors with an interactive confusion matrix and triage workflow
- Alisa Ficiciyan: Enhancing the LabGym user experience with integrated resources, an interactive workflow map, and behavior count monitoring
- Myra Lyu: Enhancing behavioral quantification in LabGym with confidence and behavioral transition analysis
Tutorial
- Bobby Tomlinson: 2026 LabGym Tutorial
- A step-by-step walkthrough of LabGym’s core workflow
- Live demonstrations using example videos and datasets
- Practical guidance for getting started and building a behavioral-analysis pipeline