Juli Carrillo

ALANizer is a low-cost tool for introducing and monitoring artificial light at night to study its effects on ecosystems, with a feasibility study showing its effectiveness in tracking arthropod activity.

The paper examines the distribution of Drosophila suzukii and its parasitoids across islands, finding that parasitoids are less common and do not suppress host populations effectively.

flatbug, a YOLOv8 instance-segmentation model with multi-scale tile-pyramid inference and polygon-based deduplication, segments terrestrial arthropods across 23 image subdatasets and transfers to held-out subdatasets with a modest F1 penalty.

This study predicts bacterial genes involved in insect-killing using comparative genomics and statistical models, validated by testing Pseudomonas strains against Drosophila.